Father Gallery

The prodigal son returns

Prodigal son returns home and asks his father's forgiveness, a parable in the Biblical Book of Luke.
Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illlustration

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HOUS2A-00148

Plum pudding served for a frontier family's Christmas dinner, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by A.B. Frost

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HOUS2A-00037

Frontier father reading to his children by firelight, 1800s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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