Detailed Information About

"Hanging Stockings"

inscription:

verso: .1: wetstamp: "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."; graphite: "Hanging Stockings/ 75" (MEA); " (mansir) ", "Mrs. Mansir-/ daughter of Rev. Richard F. Birks", "3.00" (JAL) .2: wetstamp: "FRANCES and MARY ALLEN,/ DEERFIELD, MASS./ All Rights Reserved."; graphite: "Hanging Stockings/ 85/ 75/ 50"; "298/62", "Mrs. Mansir + children/ daughter of Rev. Richard F. Birks" (JAL)

description:

Woman holding child with two other children, one of whom is hanging a stocking at blazing hearth.

references:

Listed in sisters' catalogs of 1914 and 1920. Reproduced in postcard format for "Citizens of a Small Town", Pomegranate Books, 1996.

keywords:

Children
Customs, Manners, Morals
Holidays, Celebrations
Interiors