A chilly Christmas for the outcast orphans – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with A chilly Christmas for the outcast orphans, an antique engraving rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A chilly Christmas for the outcast orphans
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Few holiday cartoons of the period were as pointed as this one, which casts a group of ragged, abandoned children out in the winter cold. Bernhard Gillam, the Puck cartoonist the record spells "Gilliam," drew it for the magazine's Christmas Eve issue of December 24, 1884, page 259. The timing suggests a political reading tied to the 1884 presidential election, when Republicans who had lost the White House to Grover Cleveland faced the loss of federal jobs, and Puck often used holiday issues for sharp commentary. The record's details are unverified, so the exact figures and targets are best confirmed against the magazine itself.
| Created / published | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by Gilliam. Illus. in: Puck, 1884 Dec. 24, p. 259. Ref. copy may be in Pres. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,017 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173501 |
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