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Wishing you a wonderful winter holiday season

Album Description

From our mailbox to yours…

Photos of public mail boxes.https://www.loc.gov/item/2023696184/ And https://www.loc.gov/item/98509439/

Wishing TPS Teachers Network members a wonder winter holiday season.  This album holds a few animated cards crafted from Library of Congress primary sources.  Please add your favorite winter holiday images or scenes and messages to this album.

From our mailbox to yours…TPS Teachers Network Admins and Mentors.

Teaching Notes

Also posted in the Insider

The National Chanukah Menorah in Lafayette Park across from the White House, Washington, D.C

Waiting to see the president. This photograph shows part of the crowd which lined up to shake hands with President and Mrs. Hoover at the annual White House reception on New Year's day. 1/1/31

A repository for mail to Santa Claus, not at the North Pole but 3,764 miles to the south, in Columbia, Tennessee

Winter

New Years, Chinatown [Port Arthur Chinese Restaurant, New York

Kwanzaa drummer

The Inn & Spa at Loretto, a luxury hotel photographed on Christmas Eve in Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2020743170/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 2020-12-24.

Genre

  • Digital photographs--Color--2020

Notes

  • -  Title, date, keywords, and additional description details based on information provided by the photographer.
  • -  The roof-edge illuminated lights are "luminaria," small lanterns of real or facsimile bags holding torches, candles, or small lightbulbs. They are a traditional year-end holiday decoration in New Mexico, especially on Christmas Eve.
  • -  Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2020; (DLC/PP-2020:133).
  • -  Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Repository

Digital Id