On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Nine blinking lights, 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.

Louisa Winslow Robins Christmas card, between 1930 and 1960. Louisa Robins papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.