Maptastic Advent Calendar?
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#December20 Day 20/24
Cartographic Card Advent Calendar!
Chicago publishing firm Rand McNally produced map-based holiday "cards" for decades that are actually rather fabulous, large-scale facsimiles!
This one, from 1960, celebrates the earliest globe made from paper gores, the Erdäpfel (Earth Apple) of 1492 Nuremberg, Germany. They appear at full scale on the verso...
And, in another facsimile, they appear totally in the round!
Attached: 3 images Death By Chocolate Advent Calendar? #AdventCalendar2022 #December21 Day 21/24 Come-Hither Chocolate Advent Calendar! German merchant Cornelius Heilwagen's friends gave him many risqué illuminations for his 18th c. album amicorum. This "lady's" chocolate is so alluring that her romantic target's face was censored! #NewberryLibrary (Case MS 5471) Many early modern treatises were penned about the morality and healthfulness of chocolate, drinking and otherwise, once it became a fad.
Frosty Advent Calendar?
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#December22 Day 22/24
Robert Frost Advent Calendar!
He produced poems for Christmas cards for decades, but this one evidently didn't turn out Christmassy-enough! #poetry #letterpress
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Elizabethan Advent Calendar?
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#December23 Day 23/24
Special Performance Advent Calendar!
This "newly corrected and augmented" edition of Love's Labors Lost from 1598 notes Shakespeare's play was performed "before her Highnes this last Christmas"! #herplay #QueenElizabethI
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Nuntastic Advent Calendar?
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#December24 Day 24/24
Take A Prayer Leave a Prayer Advent Calendar!
Would some "baby Jesus milk" soften hardened hearts? This odd little book of prayer cards was meant to be taken apart and shared by nuns on Christmas Eve among other festive occasions.
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https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma9911620434105867
Want to see more of this sort of weirdly sensual edible baby Jesus sort of thing? Of course you do...
https://twitter.com/DrKarrSchmidt/status/1563149261990084609?s=20&t=1ruvXn69e53S8FaUztQAfg
Merry Christmas!
Day 25/25
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt