... It's two Fridays before Christmas, time for a hallowed holiday tradition here at Shorpy: The Office ... guy standing across from him on the other side of the tree. Also, the girl on the far left, standing in front of the door, is ...
... Another stocking-stuffer from the Shorpy Christmas closet:
Christmas 1954. My grandmother Sarah Hall (1904-2000, ... Shores. 35mm Kodachrome by my grandfather Shepard. The tree is a northern blue spruce, spray-painted white with his workshop air ...
... worth reheating over the Shorpy Duraflame.
"Christmas 1954." My grandmother Sarah Hall (1904-2000) in her living room in ... for many years, with Brazilian pepper berries from a big tree in the backyard, mixed with pine cones, all attached to a chicken wire ...
"Dickey Christmastree, 1919." The family of Washington, D.C., lawyer Raymond Dickey. 8x6 inch ... National Photo Co. View full size.
It's Not Christmas Without The Dickeys Always look forward to the latest Dickey ...
New York, December 1913. "Christmastree, Madison Square." 8x10 glass negative, G.G. Bain Collection. View full ... Ahhhhhh!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh!!!
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Merry Christmas! Thank you Dave! Merry Christmas!
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December 1900. Christmastree in the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright at 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton, ... There's a lot of detail here for fans of old-school Christmas decoration. Zoom the gifts. Update: Niece Bertha is shown ...
Washington, D.C. "Dickey Christmastree, 1921." Our annual holiday card featuring the family of lawyer Raymond ... trees Wow. It never ceases to amaze me how different Christmas trees looked back in the day. I don't mean the decorations, I mean ...
... did have a annual spring play using the stage and we had a Christmas concert. There was a way into the church from the back of the school. ... were fooling around and one of the boys fell out of a tree and broke his arm. We carried him to Lutheran Hospital They wouldn't let ...
On this Christmas Eve, we travel back 79 years for a visit with the First Lady of ... story. View full size.
"STONE WOMAN" ENJOYS
CHRISTMAS PREPAREDNESS
CHICAGO (Dec. 23, ... V. Warren and little nephew Herbert Taylor trim Christmastree. (Acme Newspictures photo.)
Licensed to Marry. From the ...
Circa 1920. "Houck Christmastree." Everyone gather round for eggnog and carols! National Photo Company ... Or maybe ceilingpaper. - Dave]
Dreaming of A Wide Christmas I am officially in love with all of these wonderful ornaments. The ...
New York circa 1903. "A Christmastree market, Barclay Street Station." With wagons for the Mammoth Furniture ... that ceilings were much higher back in the day.
ChristmasTree Hunts at the Star Nursery Growing up in Detroit, Michigan in ...
Christmas with my grandparents in Buffalo, New York. They are the couple on ... or acquaintances met in the U.S.
The "Charlie Brown" tree is decorated with nearly two dozen burning candles! The chandelier appears ... pretty dangerous. My mother recalled one of her childhood Christmas trees catching fire from one of the wax candles (mid to late 1930's). ...
A Christmas chestnut from the Tuttle attic:
"Tree -- Dec. 25, 1951." Merry Christmas from Blue Earth, Minnesota, and from Shorpy! 35mm Kodachrome by Grace ...
... old-old-school decorations on our traditional old-school tree. We always called these Scotch firs, but it looks more like the Noble firs ... trees can't hold a candle to a classic, heirloom festooned Christmastree. Great photo!
P.S. I enjoy your family photos a great deal. ...
Christmas 1953. Oak Park, Illinois. My cousin Tom experiencing the thrill of ... right. 35mm slide. View full size.
There's a tree somewhere Under all that tinsel!
Sparks Wow! I can practically ... family shot. WOW! what great memories. Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Tinsel Hazards Here's a question for ...
December 1925. Washington, D.C. "W.W. Lodding (tree & son)." Scion of Walter W. Lodding, of Office Xmas Party fame. ... after all, Lodding is a German name.
Not far from the tree, in two senses This charming boy is growing up to look just like his ... Minstrel Team tin windup...
(The Gallery, Bicycles, Christmas, D.C., Kids, Natl Photo) ...
December 1919. "Baker Christmastree." Secretary of War Newton Baker, wife Elizabeth and children Jack, Betty ... that today.
Contest Entry? A neighborhood Clumsy ChristmasTree Contest is the only reasonable explanation for this grotesque ...
"Dickey Christmastree, 1922." Our fourth holiday visit with the family of Washington lawyer Raymond Dickey, who has a decade's worth of Christmas portraits in the archives of the National Photo Co. Some of which ...
... 1962 and family and friends have gathered for a near-Christmas dinner. I've just gotten my first 35mm camera, a Kodak Retinette, and ... identical cards made for a pleasing symmetry in her card tree on the wall. In back, my brother and our friends Colleen and Bob. Bob had ...
Christmas 1958 somewhere in Pennsylvania. The young man we last glimpsed ... plums Looks as though little Timmy received one (small) Christmas Eve gift, right after the children's program at church, and can you ... seen the bounty of well-wrapped gifts under the real tree -- even some in that nifty decorated box that looks like our chimney!
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December 1919. "Christmastree at the District Jail, Washington, D.C., and some of the prisoners." ... A Tree for Viewing I can't find an account of the 1919 Christmas, but here is one from the following year:
Christmas To Be ...
"Secretary Davis, Christmastree, 1921." James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor in the Harding, Coolidge and ... Collection glass negative. View full size.
Father Christmas Wonderful variety of ornaments. But especially sweet is the ...
The globular tree, the unhinged affect, the undercurrent of barely suppressed rage -- yes, ... from the family of Washington lawyer Raymond Dickey! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
"Dickey tree, 1914." Our fifth Christmas visit with ...
December 24, 1984. My father's last Christmas Eve, twenty-five years ago this week. View full size.
Love ... it might be Christmas Eve, even though I can't see the tree.
So, Happy Holidays isn't so new, despite what people like to say as ...
"Sierras, 1950, Nevada." The ChristmasTree Lodge on the Mount Rose Highway south of Reno is the backdrop for this ... Ontario in 1952. We are bundled up like the kids in "A Christmas Story."
A Christmas Story THOSE are the icicles that have been ...
... tterrace version 12.4 = "babe-magnet."
Is the Xmas tree real? It looks like a slightly healthier version of the tree Charlie ... you were able to get this good a photo from it.
Christmas time was similar to yours. My grandmother and great-aunt would visit ...