Christmas in the 19th-century

Louis Prang

Photo by Griffith & Griffith, Phildelphia -ca. 1897

Houghton Mifflin and Company’s Holiday Books

for MDCCCXCV, 1895

Child singers carrying a star with icon of a saint.
Bucharest, 1842

Austrian newspaper-illustration of Star Boys'
Singing Procession, 1989

Louis Prang, 1864

'Goody Santa Claus', 1889

John Whetten Ehninger (1827–1889)
Harper's Bazaar, 1870

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