Drawing the First Bucket from the Well at Midnight on New Year’s Eve (1895)

Tighe Hopkins, “New Year’s Day,” The English Illustrated Magazine 12 (January 1895): 21.

“That’s Every Bit of Wood There Is,” He Quavered (1885)

Ada Carleton Stoddard, “Snowed-In,” Harper’s Young People 6 (January 27, 1885): 200.

Slide, Slide the Ice Is Strong (1860)

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Our Year: A Child’s Book, in Verse and Prose, Illustrated by Clarence Dobell (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860), 200.

Not Forgetting the Little Songsters of the Wood, Who Cluster at Our Window (1882)

Rev. W. Walters, “Lessons of the Snow,” Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 11 (January 1882): 137.

Christmas on the Ice “A Lesson of Love” (1875)

“Christmas on the Ice, ‘A Lesson of Love,’” Drawn by Dower Wilson, The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News 4 (December 18, 1875): 284.

For a Christmas in the Woods (1894)

“Boxing Day at the End of the World,” The Illustrated American 16 (Christmas 1894): 818.

Ancient Representations of the Nativity: The Ox and the Ass (1826)

William Hone, “Ancient Representations of the Nativity: The Ox and the Ass,”  The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastime, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, & Seasons. And a Perpetual Key to the Almanack; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. (London: Hunt and Clark, 1826). 1610.

I Walked the Streets on Christmas Eve (1882)

R.H. Stoddard, “A Christmas Carol,” Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine 11 (January 1882): 1.

Gathering the Mistletoe (1882)

“A Brief Chat About Christmas,” Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine 11 (January 1882): 5.

Their Wild Guitars and Voices Clear (1826)

William Hone. The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastime, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, & Seasons. And a Perpetual Key to the Almanack; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. (London: Hunt and Clark, 1826). 1629.

Christmas Will Be (1897)

Adelaide Victoria Finch. The Finch Primer.(Boston: Ginn & Company, 1897), 36.

Starting for the Christmas Collection (1893)

H. Beaugrand, “La Quête de L'enfant Jésus” The Canadian Magazine 2 (November 1893): 123.

Fighting the Fire with Snowballs (1886)

Charles Barnard, “The Great Snowball Fight,” Illustrated by George Inness, Jr., St. Nicholas 13 (March 1886): 345.

Three Times by the Fire I Cried out to My Brother That This Woman Was a Wolf (1901)

Maximillian Foster, “On the Snow,” Illustrated by Carl Rungius, Everybody’s Magazine 5 (October 1901): 479.

A Small Black, Energetic Figure Came out from among the Firs and Ran Forward Where the Longest Shadow Pointed (1919)

Katherine Newlin Burt, “The Branding Iron,” Illustrated by Charles Sarka, Everybody’s Magazine 40 (March 1919): 50.

The Same Warmth Which Wakes Him Wakes All the Insects on Which He Feeds (1886)

Laura E. Richards, ed., “In Winter Time,” Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet; or, Furry and Feathery Pets, and How They Live. (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1886), 25.

The Woman That Toils (1902)

Bessie Van Vorst, “The Woman that Toils: Experience of a Literary Woman as a Working Girl.” Illustrated by G. Alden Peirson,  Everybody’s Magazine 7 (September 1902), cover.

The Frolic Architecture of the Snow (1879)

Daniel Curry, ed., “The Snow Storm,” National Repository Devoted to General and Religious Literature, Criticism, and Art 5 (February 1879): 102.

“Brer Coon” Was Just Newly-Caught and Put in a Hardware Store Window as an Advertisement for Firearms! (1912)

“Good Ideas From Everywhere: Illustrative Drawing,” The School Arts Book 12 (November 1912): 188.

The Jolliest Times We Ever Have Are the Times We Pack Our Bacon and Beans, Our Coffee and Bread, and Go for a Day to the Woods with Our Sketching Things (1912)

Floy Campbell, “The Name and the Game,” The School Arts Book 11 (January 1912): 473.

The Shape of the Head Is Clearly Remarkable (1865)

J.G. Wood, The Illustrated Natural History, Engraved by the brothers Dalziel (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1865), 411.

And Bird and Beast in Covert Rest (1865)

Deane’s Illustrated Family Almanack (London: Deane and Company, 1865), 71.

If You Don’t Think It’s a Nice Orange, Just Smell of It (1894)

Jenny H. Stickney, A Second Reader (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1894), 54.

A Mood (1915)

“A Mood,”Kindergarten Review 25 (February 1915), frontispiece.

There Is the Nocturnal Visitor Whom You Have so Long Taken for the Ghost of Your Mother (1854)

 “The Ghost of Larneville,”  Engraving from the designs of Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Ghost Stories: Collected with a Particular View to Counteract the Vulgar Belief in Ghosts and Apparitions, (Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1854), frontispiece.

It Had Draped Arms Extended (1914)

E.W. Hornung, “One Possessed: The Crime Doctor Solves the Mystery of the Brown Devils,” Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Everybody’s Magazine 30 (February 1914): 281.

A Ghost Story (1903)

Florence M. Cronise and Henry W. Ward, Illustrations by Gerald Sichel, Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider, and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales ( London: Swan Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1903), frontispiece.

Indisputable Materializations (1875)

Henry Steel Olcott, People from the Other World, Illustrated by Alfred Kappes and T.W. Williams (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875), 73.

The Three Careers Successive and Conjoined Are Then Tri Unismus of This Tempic Aspect of Being (1872)

Stephen Pearl Andrews, The Basic Outline of Universology: An Introduction to the Newly Discovered Science of the Universe; Its Elementary Principles; and the First Stages of Their Development in the Special Sciences. Together with Preliminary Notices of Alwato (ahl-wah-to), the Newly Discovered Scientific Universal Language, Resulting from the Principles of Universology (New York: Dion Thomas, 1872), 577.

How to Cook and Why (1914)

Elizabeth Condit and Jessie Ann Long, How to Cook and Why (New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1914), 159.

The Mystical Thesaurus (1899)

Willis F. Whitehead, Occultism Simplified: Or, the Mystic Thesaurus. Hidden Meaning of the Symbol of the Zodiac...Significance of Alphabets and Tarot Cards...Mystery of Numbers...How to Make and Use the Magic Mirror by Means of Which Communication Can Be Established with the Astral Brotherhood (Chicago: Regan Publishing Corporation, 1899), back cover.