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On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Eight nuns a-running, seven ladybugs, six nesting envelopes, FIVE RAUCOUS MUSICIANS … four flopping fish, three stacked sheep, two Tarzans, and a peacock in a pine tree. Noche Crist Christmas card to Prentiss Taylor, between 1962 and 1975. Prentiss Taylor papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Eight nuns a-running, seven ladybugs, six nesting envelopes, FIVE RAUCOUS MUSICIANS … four flopping fish, three stacked sheep, two Tarzans, and a peacock in a pine tree.

Noche Crist Christmas card to Prentiss Taylor, between 1962 and 1975. Prentiss Taylor papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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