The Most Wonderful Time of Every Year: Christmas Photos From Across the 20th Century

Colorized from the Library of Congress, National Photo Company, 1922. Title unverified as “Dorsey Christmas Tree.” Courtesy Shorpy.com.
Claudia Cardinale, born 1938, Italian Tunisian film actress and sex symbol, at Christmas in the early 1960s.
The Barr family Chrismas Tree, December 25, 1953, DesMoines, Iowa.
Christmas with Grandpa, circa 1945.
A mid-1960s Christmas.
Christmas Day, 1920.
Woman dressed as a Christmas tree, circa 1905.
A very happy Christmas 1922.
Standing by the Nativity scene, Circa 1950.
Christmas parade in Toronto, Canada in 1927.
German officers at Christmas 1917 during World War I.
Well, well, well…Christmas, Late 1950s.
Grandma and her favorite candy cane, 1950s.
Suggested Christmas feast, magazine spread, early 1960s.
Christmas Day, Chicago, Illinois, December 1970
Some seriously punk vibes in the early 1980s.
Space-age Christmas tree, magazine spread, 1960s.
A very beautiful lady at Christmas, 1960s.
Decorating the tree, 1981.
Christmas overdrive in 1999.

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Author: Ann Longmore-Etheridge

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2 thoughts on “The Most Wonderful Time of Every Year: Christmas Photos From Across the 20th Century”

  1. I hated seeing the Christmas feast spread photo. You see these stories about look how people ate in the 1970’s and a ton of aspic. No we didn’t. Just because a magazine sold an idea didn’t mean anyone took it. 🙂

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