... It's the week before Christmas, time for a hallowed holiday tradition here at Shorpy: The Office ... desk jobs in the boring adult world. Just WAIT until the Christmas party, though!
The oil can Of course the bear and the cabin ...
The colorized Christmas tree is back, 107 years after its debut in Madison Square. Happy holidays from Shorpy!
New York, December 1913. "Christmas tree, Madison Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Bain News ...
... 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. ... are my most vivid memories of the school. The spring and Christmas plays that were held each year. Recess outside during lunchtime. ...
We're all dolled up for Christmas Day and a visit by my godmother and her family. She's in front ... all shades of purple. From all of us to all of you: Merry Christmas!
Wonderful news Mal!
Merry Christmas Shorpy Friends Made it home for Christmas Eve, surgery went well. ...
December 1936: "Christmas dinner in home of Earl Pauley near Smithfield, Iowa. Dinner consisted ... the Farm Security Administration View full size.
Christmas Dinner Makes me want to cry.
- Calli.
Christmas Dinner It's sad
I bet that pie tasted sweet I bet that pie ...
"Dickey Christmas tree, 1919." 8x6 inch glass negative, National Photo Co. View full ... yuletide tradition here at Shorpy.
It's Not Christmas Without The Dickeys Always look forward to the latest Dickey Christmas picture. If someone made a book of all the pictures I would buy it. ...
"Dickey Christmas tree, 1923." The family of Washington lawyer Raymond Dickey, whose ... are everyone's eyes so sad? Don't they know it's Christmas? (Maybe this the custom of the day, to look somber in a holiday ... track on the floor to the right. Wonder if a wee little Christmas choo-choo was part of the decorations, or a gift done opened and set ...
"Christmas P.J.'s -- Dec. 25 1951." Grace and Sally clash in the latest episode ... Grace and Sally hope you had a very merry Christmas!
Behind the chair Is that Ralphie's Red Ryder 200-Shot ... London Past & Present Thank you for the Beautiful Christmas Focus!
I thought Shorpy might appreciate seeing this:
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... facility, like a hospital or orphanage, and at Christmas, to boot.
It's only Mrs. Claus In civvies.
They have ... holiday dated back to the early '50s?
A Blue Christmas, a Knotty Christmas You can catch a glimpse of spring, too. (By her left elbow).
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... this 35mm Kodachrome of Jim and Jack Hardman and their Christmas train set in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. View full size.
... in the attic, basement or under the bed, get them out for Christmas, oil them and run them.
Speaking of Smoke I believe the little ...
Christmas 1953. Oak Park, Illinois. My cousin Tom experiencing the thrill of ... family shot. WOW! what great memories. Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Tinsel Hazards Here's a question for ... enough (1957)for me to buy the thing I'd always wanted for Christmas but, because I was a girl, never got. Unfortunately, he was still at ...
... have a cellphone. Thanks for this fascinating picture.
Christmas Pilgrimage My wife's family is originally from New York and part of the holiday ritual is a trip to Mulberry Street each Christmas Eve to procure the goodies for a proper Holiday meal. Alleva Dairy, ...
December 24, 1984. My father's last Christmas Eve, twenty-five years ago this week. View full size.
Love ... it means a lot to me and it's not my father.
Merry Christmas!
Great one What a touching picture, tterrace. Is that house ...
... 1962 and family and friends have gathered for a near-Christmas dinner. I've just gotten my first 35mm camera, a Kodak Retinette, and ... still in his supermarket work garb, so it's obviously not Christmas day. Next to me in front are Aunt Grace and Uncle Jack, my mother's ...
... from the family of Washington lawyer Raymond Dickey! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
"Dickey tree, 1914." Our fifth Christmas visit with the family of Washington lawyer Raymond Dickey, whose ...
December 1900. Christmas tree in the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright at 7 Hawthorn Street in ... There's a lot of detail here for fans of old-school Christmas decoration. Zoom the gifts. Update: Niece Bertha is shown ... dish set in a different room or house.
Candles on a Christmas tree... ... has got to be the most optimistic decoration ever.
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December 1919. "Baker Christmas tree." Secretary of War Newton Baker, wife Elizabeth and children ... that today.
Contest Entry? A neighborhood Clumsy Christmas Tree Contest is the only reasonable explanation for this grotesque ... like little Jack got the 1919 equivalent of an iPod for Christmas.
Charlie Brown called and he wants his tree back. I don't mean ...
Washington, D.C. "Dickey Christmas tree, 1921." Our annual holiday card featuring the family of lawyer ... 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 ... that have been posted here that I'm curious.
Conical Christmas This photo makes me wonder - When did the current "pointy ...
... are very dramatic. When I was a small child, at Christmas, my family would go to the Christmas Pageant at Radio City Music Hall every year, and then attend Midnight ...
"Dickey Christmas tree, 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 ... imagine, so these fellas had to let things slide. Merry Christmas to ALL!!! (but when More (allegedly) wrote "A Visit From St. ...
... are no longer on top of the Penobscot Building.
Merry Christmas Dave, I don't know how to photoshop, but you get the idea. Thanks ... much as you do. I hope you and tterrace et al. have Merry Christmas and a great 2023.
Thank you Arthur Siegel For your beautifully ...
Christmas with my grandparents in Buffalo, New York. They are the couple on ... pretty dangerous. My mother recalled one of her childhood Christmas trees catching fire from one of the wax candles (mid to late 1930's). ... pictures from her childhood, so it's nice to see what her Christmas tree probably looked like.
Real candles Wonderful image. One ...
... worth reheating over the Shorpy Duraflame.
"Christmas 1954." My grandmother Sarah Hall (1904-2000) in her living room in ... also made the curtains. She was, needless to say, big on Christmas. 35mm Kodachrome. View full size.
A lovely lady and a ...
"Xmas 1951." Christmas Past, and Christmas presents. Our 12th slide from this batch of 35mm Kodachromes ... I had an H gun and cowgirl outfit!!! That kid had a good Christmas!!
Cushman chair The chair he is on looks to be a Cushman ...
... December 1955. Here's our family's entry in the Shorpy Christmas tree sweepstakes. Devoid of any jolly celebrants, unfortunately, but ... clothing.
Window dressing Well that is a perfect Christmas tree and the slight blur adds a little dreamy magic that is nice. But ...
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Mrs. A.M. Keen. Christmas tree." Somewhere in there: a very tiny kitchen sink. Harris & ... I wanted to lay out a loop of track around my family's Christmas tree and run my model train on it but my parents shot me down every ...
... brother, at left, and me, at right, proudly presenting our Christmas presents, nice garages with plenty of cars and trucks. View full ... received one of those, please post the photo!
Great Christmas Santa treated you two very, very well. Did either of you go into ...