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Title: The Century for xmas
Creator: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, artist
G.H. Buek & Co., printer
Century Company, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of an advertisement for The Century Magazine 1895 Christmas issue featuring a robed Santa Claus bringing in a steaming Christmas pudding preceded by a boy and a girl carrying lit candles in candlesticks.
Item originally owned by illustrator Curtis Wager-Smith (1870-1950). "L.J.R."--text, artist's initials on stone, bottom left of image. "G.H. Buek & Co. N.Y. Lith."--text, bottom left of image. "Copyright, 1895, by The Century Co."--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 54.45 x 36.67 cm (21 7/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ART_003193
502571
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5249
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Periodicals
Candles--Pictorial works
Children--Pictorial works
Santa Claus--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Artist Posters
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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