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Color glossy 13.25 x 9.75 mounted photo by famed White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, showing Caroline's ducks in the fountain on the South Lawn, with "With our appreciation and best wishes for a happy Christmas, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1961" printed in facsimile below. Mounted inside its original 17 x 14 red folder embossed on the front with the presidential seal. In very good to fine condition, with some surface loss and staining to the front cover, and a smaller stain to the card itself, as well as a few tiny edge tears and pin holes.
These historic official Kennedy White House Christmas gifts are discussed in detail in Mary Evans Seeley’s Season’s Greetings from the White House (pp. 87-95). Seeley reports that 'this Christmas remembrance was presented to some 1,000 White House executive and military employees at an informal reception on December 13, [1961].'
