Image of an advertisement for The Century Christmas issue featuring a working-class family standing and praying around a Nativity scene at the base of a small Christmas tree. Date supplied by cataloger based on publication history; illustration is from "Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City," by Jacob A. Riis, Copyright, 1897, 1898 by The Century Co. "H.A. Thomas & Wylie, Lith. Co. N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Merry Christmas in the Tenements"--text, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 50.32 x 33.81 cm (19 13/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
Advertising--Periodicals Children--Pictorial works Christmas--Pictorial works Christmas trees--Pictorial works Fathers--Pictorial works Families--Pictorial works Men--Pictorial works Mothers--Pictorial works Women--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Artist Posters Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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