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A lovely selection of vintage illustrations from Night Before Christmas:

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November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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💙 Moore gained considerable wealth by ... developing ... the residential neighborhood of Chelsea. ... served for 44 years as a member of the board of trustees of Columbia College (later University) ...
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July 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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for the 201st anniversary of publication of America's most popular poem: 'Twas the night before Christmas, in The Troy Sentinel, 23 Dec 1823; as reproduced for the Troy Public Library 1/2 #bookhistory #poem #NightBeforeChristmas #VisitFromStNicholas #Christmaspoem #ClementMoore
image of the poem as printed in 1823. Above it is an introduction: "We know not to whom we are indebted for the following description of that unwearied patron of children—that homely, but delightful personification of parental kindness—SANTE CLAUS, his costume and his equipage, as he goes about visiting the fire-sides of this happy land, laden with Christmas bounties; but, from whomsoever it may have come, we give thanks for it. There is, to our apprehension, a spirit of cordial goodness in it, a playfulness of fancy, and a benevolent alacrity to enter into the feelings and promote the simple pleasures of children, which are altogether charming. We hope our little patrons, both lads and lasses, will accept it as proof of our unfeigned good will toward them—as a token of our warmest wish that they may have many a merry Christmas; that they may long retain their beautiful relish for those unbought, homebred joys, which derive their flavor from filial piety and fraternal love, and which they may be assured are the least-alloyed that time can furnish them; and that they may never part with that simplicity of character, which is their own fairest ornament, and for the sake of which they have been pronounced, by authority which one can gainsay, the types of such as shall inherit the kingdom of heaven.
December 16, 2024 at 2:06 PM