Puck Christmas, 1899
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Puck Christmas, 1899
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Science Source
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Entitled "1899 Puck Christmas" chromolithograph showing Puck pushing a fashionably dressed young woman on ice skates on a pond or river in a wooded area. Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918. It was the first magazine to carry illustrated advertising and the first to successfully adopt full-color lithography printing for a weekly publication. In English folklore, Puck is a mischievous nature sprite, demon, or fairy. Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ and a widely observed cultural holiday, celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide, which ends after the twelfth night. Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians, and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season. Illustrated by Frank Arthur Nankivell for Puck and published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, December 13, 1899.
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