Tuesday, December 30, 2014

No, I Don’t Believe in You Any More, but You May Leave the Things (1909)

William S. Walsh, “St. Nicholas in Europe,” Drawing by J.R. Shaver, The Story of Santa Klaus: Told for Children of All Ages from Six to Sixty (New York: Moffat, Yard, and Company, 1909), 204.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Christmas Joy (1851)

Thanksgiving Night: or, Tales Told in Cold Weather (Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1851), frontispiece.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Winter (1877)

G.H. Boughton, Winter, “Contemporary Art in England,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 54 (January 1877): 161.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Over Snowfields, Waste and Pathless (1904)

Walter Aikman, engraving on wood after a painting by J. Farquharson, Ellen M. Cyr, Cyrs Advanced First Reader (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1904), 95.


Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Moon Is Up and Gives Us Light (1884)

“Lesson XLIII,” Christian Brother’s New Series Primer (New York: De La Salle Institute, 1884), 37.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Strange Physician (1873)

“The Strange Physician,” Petersen’s Magazine 64 (August 1873): 155.