Christmas Coloring Page - 1935

Yesterday’s blog post featured a 1968 Christmas coloring page that appeared in the Lorain Journal annually for years. Today’s post is about another seasonal coloring page that appeared in the same paper decades earlier.

The illustration that kids were supposed to color this time, however, was much more elaborate. It was part of a contest held by the the Lorain Journal and Times-Herald. The total prize money was $15, with $10 going to the winner who did the best job of coloring and $2 for the second prize. There were also three prizes of one dollar each.

(Don’t feel bad for the kids who only won a buck. Remember a dollar in the Depression year of 1935 had the same buying power as about eighteen bucks now.)

Anyway, it’s a strange illustration to try and color. The Dickensian picture is almost all black already! I’m guessing it was poached out of a book.

At least the kids could color in the large snow-covered tree...white.