Christmas – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Christmas. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Christmas
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Santa Claus is the figure this card centers on, shown in the familiar red suit and white beard that became standard in American and European Christmas imagery through the late 1800s. Images like this one drew on earlier pictures of St. Nicholas and on Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," which helped shape the sleigh, reindeer and chimney-visit traditions. Holiday cards of this kind were widely mailed and collected in the decades around 1900, when color printing made bright, sentimental scenes affordable for ordinary households.
| Original scan | 1,518 × 2,400 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 100 (28) |
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