advent 2019 - Unique and Distinctive

Advent 2019: 12 December

Silhouettes from the O’Carrol Collection, Christmas 1910

New Year’s Greeting card to a Limerick family, 1908

Sketch of children, 1914, Barrington Collection

Snowy illustration from Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Star Child’

Illustrated sample menu from Dunraven Castle, Christmas 1847

Christmas greetings from a sweetheart, 1912

Description of Holly and Ivy from Christopher Merrett’s work, 1667

Sketch of a child reading c1850, Barrington Collection

Postcard to Stephen O’Mara from his son, August 1932

Christmas card from the Armstrong Collection, 1970s

Set design by Rosemarie Cockayne for The Nutcracker, 1982

The December weather report from 1688, Bolton Library

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