On View
Not on viewHoliday Card
Artist
L. Prang & Co.
Date1883
Terms
- Greeting Cards
- Paper
Dimensions15.24 × 21.59 cm (6 × 8 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Russell Robb, Sr. (Edith Morse)
Object numberPER1115.0002AAD
DescriptionChristmas card consisting of a chromolithograph on cardstock. The print features a gray-haired man, holding three children on his lap, near a fireplace. "Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour." Fireplace tiles depict labeled people: Evangeline; Hiawath[a]/ Why you for self John; John Alden; Pil...[illegible]; Paul Revere; He watched with eager search the belfry tower of the Old North Church; Lady Wentworth. On the back, "Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
