[A Christmas card featuring an excerpt of the lyrics and musical notation to "It came upon the midnight clear", a decorated initial "I", two larger angels playing harps, and two smaller angels playing a cittern and a wind instrument, all surrounded by decorative flowers and leaves]

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Title: [A Christmas card featuring an excerpt of the lyrics and musical notation to "It came upon the midnight clear", a decorated initial "I", two larger angels playing harps, and two smaller angels playing a cittern and a wind instrument, all surrounded by decorative flowers and leaves]
Date: 1940 December 20
Notes: Marion, Marjorie, and Maurice NS to [George Bird], December 20, 1940. Athens, Pa., page 1. From a collection made up of correspondence, documents, ephemera, and other materials related to members of the Bird family of East Smithfield, Pennsylvania.
Names and Subjects: Angels--1940-1950.; Angels--Pictorial works.; Angels in art.; Christmas cards--1940-1950.; Cittern.; Flowers--1940-1950.; Flowers--Color.; Flowers--Pictorial works.; Flowers in art.; Harps--1940-1950.; Initials--1940-1950.; Lettering--Pictorial works.; Lettering in art.; Musical notation--1940-1950.; Musical notation--Pictorial works.; Musical notation in art.; Sears, Edmund H. (Edmund Hamilton), 1810-1876.; Wind instruments--1940-1950.; Wings (Anatomy)--1940-1950.; Wings (Anatomy) in art.; Manuscripts shelf.
Genre: Christmas cards.; Printed ephemera.
Collection Title: Bird family papers
Collection Creator: Bird family
Project Name: Illustrated Manuscripts Project
ID: 6271
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2018-09-05 12:01:53

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Record: 6271
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