christmas 1920: merry christmas to you from the boston post
Masthead, Boston Post, December 25, 1920. Click on image for larger version. While scrolling through papers for this series, the illustrations published by the Boston Post stood out in terms of quality and variety. It feels like they put extra effort in gathering material from sources ranging from already published prints to popular humour magazines. With this lush masthead as our entrance, let's explore what was in the Post 's holiday editions. Boston Post, December 25, 1920. Thoughts from the front page on the state of the world that Christmas, one still emerging from war and pandemic (and one that sounds vaguely familiar to those who have lived through 2020), with a touch of American exceptionalism thrown in. The following was also expressed on the front page: Christmas 1920! It will be a day of joy and gladness in Boston. Out of the chaos of the world worries it will dawn filled with good cheer for rich and poor alike, for those that are well and those that ...