The Centennial Christmas. A Boy's Ballad. – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of The Centennial Christmas. A Boy's Ballad.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Centennial Christmas. A Boy's Ballad.
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Set in the centennial year of American independence, this page of text and three wood engravings is titled "The Centennial Christmas. A Boy's Ballad." It appeared in *Harper's Weekly* on January 6, 1877, and its subject headings point to the Christmas of 1776 and the winter that followed. That was the season of Washington's crossing of the Delaware and the hard months of the Revolutionary War, and the ballad looks back on those years through the eyes of a boy. The record's cataloging notes are old and unverified, so the exact details of the engravings are best checked against the magazine itself.
| Created / published | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Page of text and 3 wood engravings. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1877 Jan. 6, p. 4. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Holidays--Christmas. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Hist.--Dec. 1776; U.S. Hist.--Winter 1777; Holidays--Christmas; Veterans; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,028 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133687 |
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