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Description
"The Night Before Christmas" is an illustrated 12-page booklet containing the poem "Twas The Night Before Christmas". It was distributed by Memphis department store Bry's circa 1939. Bry's was one of the big four department stores in Memphis in the twentieth century. It first opened in 1908 in the former Appeal newspaper building on the corner of Main and Jefferson Streets. In 1925, the store moved to another building on Main which was called the New Bry's. The store closed in 1964.
Identifier
MVP 4099
Date
circa 1939
Keywords
Christmas poetry.
Recommended Citation
"The Night Before Christmas, circa 1939" (2021). Shelby County, Tennessee. 31.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-pub-shelby/31
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