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Christmas

 

 

 

Who invented electric Christmas lights?

Chicago Christmas Activities (around 1910)

TR calls on neighbors at Christmas, 1917 (video)

The frontier holiday; being a collection of writings by Minnesota pioneers who recorded their divers ways of observing Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's. Ed. and illus. by Glenn Hanson.

Santa Claus hides in your phonograph / Arthur A. Penn ; [performed by] Harry E. Humphrey.

Federal Theatre Marionettes present "A Christmas carol".

William T. Sherman to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, December 22, 1864

John Gregory Smith to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, December 27, 1864

The Works Progress Administration in Ohio presents the Federal Theatre for youth in "A Christmas Carol".

Christmas and new year musical souvenir 1863

Winnie and Walter's Christmas stories

Christmas tales and Christmas verse, by Eugene Field; illustrations by Florence Storer.

One night in Bethlehem : a Christmas play.

Christmas 1929

Christmas Inn [from newspaper]

Merry Christmas Inn [from newspaper]

Christmas Gifts [from newspaper]

Painting [Paris street scene]

 

Photographs

* Photographs from Christmas Card:

New York City--the Chanucka celebration (1880)

But with her babe upon her knee (1912?)

Christmas Eve at the Province House: Old woman and children (1886)

Christmas morning after daylight (1871)

The Christmas carol (n.d)

Christmas Eve (1901)

A Christmas Morning Kodak (1904)

Christmas morning in the sunny South (1897)

Koo children, Christmas tree (1919)

Crippled Children's Home Christmas party (1906)

A Brownie for Christmas (1922)

Let your Kodak keep the Christmas Story (1921)

Christmas dinner in home of Earl Pauley (1936)

Manuel Andrews, a Portuguese boy near Falmouth, Massachusetts (1940)

First Lady Betty Ford, Santa Claus, and clowns lead a procession...(1975)

Boy beside store window display of Christmas ornaments (1944)

 

Alexander Graham Bell Quote:
Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Eliza Symonds Bell, December 28, 1895

 

CHRISTMAS TREE AT CAPITOL

Cats decorating Christmas tree

Remember the poor : a Salvation Army Christmas box

Frank Burt & Geo. H. Nicolai present a pastoral play, The night before Christmas by Hal Reid.

Frank Burt & Geo. H. Nicolai present a pastoral play, The night before Christmas by Hal Reid. (Number 2)

Christmas tree market, New York City, A

A Christmas catastrophe : please, sir, the rat entree has escaped and eaten the turkey

Cut Christmas trees, market in front of Barclay Street Station, New York, N.Y.

"The Websters wish you a Merry Christmas"

Christmas tree at Windsor Castle / drawn by J.L. Williams.

Christmas day in the morning

I wish you all a Merry Christmas

A Christmas "Putz"

Merry Christmas to everybody / Berryman.

Preparing Christmas greens--Making wreaths / drawn by T. De Thulstrup.

Lyndhurst - a happy Christmas at "Woody Crest," December, 1905

A Christmas prayer of wartime

Christmas Supplement, 1848, showing 2 scenes

Christmas in an air raid shelter (1941)

Their first glimpse (1908)

Grandpa's visit Christmas morning

Early years, with images of family, self portraits, landscapes and architectural interiors. Christmas 1912

The Christmas carol (1890)

Early Christmas

Christmas dolls

Christmas Eve

Christmas tree encircled by toy train, in basement

The National Christmas Tree presented to President Coolidge by Middlebury College

Christmas eve / Th. Nast

The christmas carol

Christmas eve

Christmas morning after daylight (1871)

Merry Christmas

The first Christmas Eve, Mary & Joseph entering the stable of Bethlehem

Christmas Eve in colonial times (1892)

Christmas chimes / from painting by Blashfield

Twas the night before Christmas

Santa Claus proposing a toast at a table full of people

Decorating the tree at a Christmas Eve party

Santa Claus - "Good Bye" (1919)

Nurses filling bags with objects, preparing for Christmas at County Hospital

Mail carrier N. Sorenson delivering Christmas mail

Stage covered with Salvation Army Christmas baskets

 

Christmas Cards

Christmas card with photograph of U.S. Capitol on cover

National Cathedral. Copy of Christmas cards

Copy of Christmas card snow scene of National Cathedral

Prang's Christmas cards

Christmas card from "Stefan & Julianna Munsing" to Charles and Ray Eames

Christmas card from "Janet and Perry Prentice" to Charles and Ray Eames

Christmas Cards sent to Charles and Ray Eames

The First Christmas Card (1846) copy

Love of winter / Geo. Bellows.

Xmas [i.e., Christmas] victory cards

 

Christmas Music

I'll be home for Christmas [Song Collection]

"A Christmas song in Greek, sung by the four Sarris children."

Christmas Song

Christmas carol. H. De Marsan, 38 & 60 Chatham Street, N. Y. [n. d.]

A Christmas ode. [n. p.] [n. d.]

Adeste fideles [sound recording]

Christmas polka (sheet music)

I'll be home for Christmas [sound recording]

I'll be home for Christmas [sheet music]

Christmas gift valse [sheet music]

The Christmas toy [sheet music]

Christmas bells at sea [sheet music]

Bethlehem : a Christmas hymn. [choral score]

 
 
 
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