Winter Readings and Season’s Greetings
Posted by: Josh Levy
Season's greetings from the Library of Congress Manuscript Division!
Posted in: Holidays
Category: Holidays
Diplomatic Holiday Greetings
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The holiday cards of Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson convey more than season’s greetings, providing insight into her career as a photographer in the 1930s and her life as the spouse of a U.S. foreign service officer from 1940 to 1958.
Posted in: Holidays, War and Society, Women's & Gender History
“I did not see the use of being uncomfortable on Thanksgiving day”: Tight Clothes and Big Meals in 19th-Century America
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
In an 1861 letter to her mother, sixteen-year-old Louisa Russell recounted a Thanksgiving feast that battled against her "considerably tight" clothing.