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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Christmas 150 Years Ago




Even with all the sorrow that hangs,
and will forever hang, over so many households;
even while war still rages;
even while there are serious questions yet to be settled -
ought it not to be, and is it not,
a merry Christmas?
Harper's Weekly, December 26, 1863


Illustrations from mid-19th century issues of Godey