A Christmas card booklet

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

A Christmas card booklet

Entry/Object ID

2011.386.1.1

Description

A Christmas card booklet, issued by Louis Prang, Boston, 1886. The item has thick stock covers bound by a yellow tied ribbon, with the front showing a pastoral winter scene on a farm, the title "Bright Be Thy Christmas" and a three line poem. Inside is a title page for the poem "Christ's Coming" by poet and painter Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872). Subsequent pages present each four-line stanza of the work without illustration. With soiling, some stains and edge rubbing, the overall condition is fair.

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Christmas Cards