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Life 1896-12-24

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Angry religious enthusiast and distressed children stare at Santa Claus in the stocks in Puritan Massachusetts (where Christmas was not allowed to be celebrated in traditional English form of rioting and drunkenness): "How Christmas fared in Massachusetts Bay."



Artist: F. G. Attwood

Source: Tom Harris, collector/seller, on eBay as tabasco_life

Restoration by: magscanner