This holiday season the Michigan State University Museum presents "An Interwoven Christmas," an exhibition of Interwoven Stocking Company advertising art from the personal collection of MSU Museum curator of history Val Berryman.
The exhibit runs through Jan. 13 in the Ground Floor Gallery.
Every Christmas through the first half of the 20th century, the Interwoven Stocking Company of New Brunswick, N.J. provided a popular gift option for Dad. Knowing that every man could use more stockings, they offered a new Christmas gift box each season with a colorful Early American holiday scene created by a series of talented commercial artists including N. C. Wyeth, J. C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell and others. Variations of the beautiful scene on the box also appeared in their magazine advertising and in store display signs and large fabric banners that were displayed in shoe and clothing stores.
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