Currier and Ives basically produced a lot of work for mass consumption that looks like all of those Dickensian Christmas scenes, or little Charles Foster Kane playing with his Rosebud before he's taken away to be an Evil Zillionairetm
Think of "Rich Little's Christmas Carol" and you have a Currier and Ives print, but with more Carol Channing.
They were "real period" - it was a company in the 1800s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currier_and_Ives) producing prints for mass consumption. They also did more than just winter prints - it's just that the schmaltzy stuff is what the powers-that-be thinks will sell, you know?
Lovingly know as "chocolate box" over here; never really existed, but somehow exactly what everyone thinks of when they think of period winters, as opposed to lots of poor sods freezing and/or starving to death.
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Date: 2007-12-15 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-15 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-16 07:51 pm (UTC)Currier and Ives basically produced a lot of work for mass consumption that looks like all of those Dickensian Christmas scenes, or little Charles Foster Kane playing with his Rosebud before he's taken away to be an Evil Zillionairetm
Think of "Rich Little's Christmas Carol" and you have a Currier and Ives print, but with more Carol Channing.
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Date: 2007-12-17 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-18 02:36 am (UTC)We had a couple of calendars for a while but some Christmas-Crazed shopper picked them up about a year ago.
They're all over the place in those kind of high-to-mid-end poster shops.
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Date: 2007-12-17 07:32 am (UTC)Period vs simulated period
Date: 2007-12-17 07:07 pm (UTC)Re: Period vs simulated period
Date: 2007-12-17 08:43 pm (UTC)