Friday, December 21, 2018

December 21, 1918. Returns

J. C. Leyendecker did the cover for the Christmas 1918 edition of the Saturday Evening Post, which came out on Saturday, December 21.  A classic (perhaps overdone?) Leyendecker illustration.


Leyendecker's decorating woman may have been awaiting the return of her soldier, but some were back, and not all of them were well.  Convalescing soldiers enrolling at the Red Cross' Lafayette House in New York City.  December 21, 1918.

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