Men & women in Sutler Union army camp scramble excitedly for crates full of gifts

Christmas Boxes in Camp, from Harper’s Weekly, January 4, 1862

Artist Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

Date1862

MediumWood engraving on newsprint

Dimensions16 1/16 × 11 5/16 × 1/8 in. (40.8 × 28.7 × 0.3 cm)

ClassificationPrint

Credit LineMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Michael Lukasiewicz and Martha Tedeschi

Object number2021.2.2

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