Twas the night before Christmas – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Twas the night before Christmas in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Twas the night before Christmas
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Its title quotes the opening line of Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," which turned a Dutch-inflected Santa Claus into the figure most Americans know. The card was copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman, a New York firm that was a prominent publisher of stereoviews, cards that showed a pair of nearly identical photographs. Viewed through a stereoscope, the pair fused into a single three-dimensional scene, and such cards were a popular parlor entertainment in the late 1890s. The record does not name the photographer, so the scene is best read within that commercial tradition.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,403 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139604 |
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