Selling Christmas greens--a scene in Richmond, Virginia / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. ; W.L.S. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Selling Christmas greens--a scene in Richmond, Virginia / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. ; W.L.S., preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Selling Christmas greens--a scene in Richmond, Virginia / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. ; W.L.S.
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Holly and evergreen boughs fill the foreground of this wood engraving of a street scene in Richmond, Virginia, where a Black vendor sells Christmas greens to passersby. William Ludwell Sheppard, a Richmond-born illustrator who contributed to *Harper's Weekly*, drew the scene for the magazine's Christmas 1875 issue, when the paper often featured holiday subjects. The picture belongs to the years after the Civil War, when Black workers in Southern cities ran many small trades in the streets. Its ordinary market setting makes it a useful glimpse of holiday commerce in a Reconstruction-era city.
| Created / published | published 1875 Dec. 25. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Wood engravings 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1875 Dec. 25, p. 1037. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Commerce--Virginia--Richmond--1870-1880. Christmas--1870-1880. Peddlers--Virginia--Richmond--1870-1880. Holly--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179520 |
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