This is a delightful Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway vintage Christmas advertisement. Grandma and Grandpa have travelled in a horse-drawn carriage to meet family who have arrived by train. The ad is from the Christmas 1898 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine.
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