Tag: Christmas

Christmas gardens. Little gardens set up under the Christmas tree. No we didn’t have one but they are mighty pretty. These are all from an American archive but they had them in other places and countries, too.

Christmas garden with tree and train. Set up under the Christmas tree: A mounted photograph of a tree and toy train in a Christmas garden. ca. 1900. exact location not given but in a Maryland archive. H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/christmas-garden-with-tree-and-train/
A Christmas garden most likely made by the photographer, Van Buren Davis. The garden includes a decorated Christmas tree along with tracks for a toy train. Photograph, ca. 1910. exact location not given but in a Maryland archive. H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/christmas-garden/
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Christmas, West Arlington, Maryland USA: Unidentified child with Christmas tree and toys. 1900. Photographer unknown. Photographic print in the Clara Lips Album, Special Collections Department, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture https://www.mdhistory.org/electrifying-and-animating-marylands-christmas-gardens/
Children and Christmas Tree: Three children pose in front of a shop display with a Christmas tree and a train garden. December 28, 1944 photograph. Location not given but part of a collection created by the Hughes Studio who were Baltimore Maryland based commercial photographers. Herbert E. Wilhelm, listed as a contributor, may have been the photographer. His name is located in the description for this item within the finding aid. Hughes Studio Photograph Collection, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture. https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/children-and-christmas-tree/

Yuletide offerings from German/American illustrator J. C. Leyendecker. Mostly cover art for magazines. Living from 1874 to 1951 his artwork graced newsstands from coast to coast. One that isn’t Christmas in the bunch. . .she snuck in somehow . .. oh well.

Christmas number for 1900. Success Magazine.
Christmas number for 1900. Success Magazine. Fair use license. via http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2015/03/j-c-leyendecker-part-1.html

December, 1905 artwork for Century Magazine.
December, 1905 artwork for Century Magazine. © 2019 oldimprints.com. Fair use license. via https://www.oldimprints.com/pages/books/55296/j-c-leyendecker/a-christmas-hymn-disbound-section-of-the-century-magazine-december-1905

Madonna and child. Christmas, 1928.
Madonna and child. Christmas, 1928. In the public domain. via https://www.art.com/products/p17724033356-sa-i7066442/joseph-christian-leyendecker-madonna-and-child-december-22-1928.htm?upi=PHX0CJ0&PODConfigID=4986478

Queen Maeve. 1906.
Queen Maeve. 1906. Artwork for Century Magazine, January, 1907. Public domain. via http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2015/03/j-c-leyendecker-part-1.html