https://www.loc.gov/item/2018670674/

Hanover Court House, Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by 17th New York & 12th Maine Regiments. (Butterfield's Brigade)

Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2010652193/
Puck's Christmas Tree
Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937, artist
N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1902 December 24.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/item/2004669669/
Christmas Eve
Date: Unknown
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
 

https://www.loc.gov/resource/pga.07078/

Print shows an interior view of a room in a mill or factory where several men are engaged in measuring, folding, and binding cloth into lengths.

Hincks, William, artist

Popular graphic art print filing series
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assertion_of_Liberty_of_Conscience_by_the_Independents_of_the_Westminster_Assembly_of_Divines,_1644.jpg
Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
Painting – 1847
Artist John Rogers Herbert:
Photo by Art UK
 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PuritanChristmasBan.jpg
Public notice from 1659 in Boston regarding the banning the celebrations of Christmas.
 

https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Images/Santa_Claus-Chapel_Gems-1866-pp108-109.jpg
Up On The House Top Sheet Music
 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_Bells#/media/File:One_Horse_Open_Sleigh_title_page.jpg
Jingle Bells Sheet Music
 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stille_nacht.jpg
Silent Night Sheet Music

 

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Christmas Drawings for the Human Race
Thomas Nast Published Harper & Brothers 1890

 

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https://www.loc.gov/item/00651621/

[Drummer boys off duty, playing cards in camp, winter of 1862]

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Christmas_dinner._A_scene_on_the_outer_picket_line_LCCN2004661501.tif
Title: A Christmas dinner. A scene on the outer picket line 
Artist: Edwin Forbes
Library of Congress – 1876

 

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Visit_From_St._Nicholas,_by_Clement_C_Moore.jpg
 Clement Clarke Moore credit: New-York Historical Society

‘The Invention of Santa Claus’ Exhibit
‘A Visit From St. Nicholas’ handwritten Manuscript gifted by author Clement C. Moore

 

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Author_of_%27A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas%27_-_Clement_C._Moore_crop.png
Drawing: Clement Moore
Engraved by J. W. Evans - Making of America

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_H_Nast.jpg
Portrait: Thomas Nast

Sarony - Photographer - NYPL "The Pageant of America" Collection
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NastRepublicanElephant.jpg

"The Third-Term Panic", by Thomas Nast, originally published in en:Harper's Magazine 7 November 1874.

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c12163/

Stranger things have happened. Hold on, and you may walk over the sluggish animal up there yet / Th. Nast.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Claus_1863_Harpers.png

January 3, 1863 cover of Harper's Weekly, one of the first depictions of Santa Claus
Thomas Nast, for Harper's Weekly

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_Davis_1853_daguerreotype-restored.png
Daguerreotype of Jefferson Davis
Encyclopedia Virginia, 1863

 

 

https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.44636/

Santa Claus's face in the middle of a Christmas wreath, surrounded by trees and turkey

St. Louis : [publisher not transcribed], c1896.

Popular and applied graphic art print filing series
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a53291/
[President Ulysses S. Grant, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Community_Christmas_tree,_12-24-23_LCCN2016848489.jpg
Title: Community Christmas tree, 12/24/23
National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2005684470
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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