Festive Collection (page 2)

Wartime advert for Dolcis shoes, featuring a festive sprig of holly. Date: 1943

The front cover of Britannia and Eve from December 1943. Date: 1943

Beautiful Gruss Aus Bavarian postcard
The card shows revellers in a crowd in festive costumes - soldiers, musicians and serving maids etc.It is from Fuerther-Kirchweih which is famous for its festivals. Date: circa 1900

Yuletide festive window display with reindeer and sleigh
Yuletide festive window display with reindeer & sleigh. Date: circa 1965

An oil drum band playing festive music at the annual Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

The labours of the XII months set out in new pictures and old proverbs. Illustration from the English Illustrated Magazine featuring a mummer arriving at a home on a cold December night while a

Front cover of The Bright Side of Xmas by Walter Emanuel designed by John Hassall. A Pickwickian style gentleman weighed down with a generous pile of Christmas gifts. Date: c.1930

Peter Stuyvesant
Christmas image depicting the wooden-legged Peter Stuyvesant heralding the festive season. Artist: Albertine Randall Whelan Date: 1910

Christmas Day at the North Eastern Hospital 1904
Christmas Day in a childrens Goldsmiths Ward in North Eastern Hospital in Hackney Road, London. Showing a huge Christmas tree in the ward, decorated with stockings, crackers, dolls

Christmas Festivities at the North Eastern Hospital 1905
Infants at the Goldsmiths Ward in North Eastern Hospital in Hackney Road, London. Showing a huge Christmas tree in the ward, decorated with crackers, dolls, beads and a angel topper

German womens fashion from the late 15th century
German womens fashion and ornament from the late 15th century. Woman from the title page to the woodcut album Reise von Palastina A

Santa Claus playing the organ - Christmas Postcard
Christmas Wishes postcard - Santa Claus knocking out a few carols on the organ, accomponied by a (heavenly) host of child choristers bathed in light from a floating Christmas Tree! Date: circa 1910s

Bystander Christmas Number 1932
Inner front cover of The Bystander Christmas Number 1932 featuring a stylised illustration by Tom Gentleman of a coach and four galloping through the snow. Date: 1932

Eros Gets That Christmas Feeling by Pearce
Lovely illustration of Piccadilly Circus in the centre of London, covered in snow and with the famous Eros statue decorated with holly and ribbons for Christmas. Date: 1932

Festival Dainties for Easter, Radiation Gas Cooker booklet. 1920s

Tatler Christmas Number front cover, 1940
Front cover of The Tatler magazine, Christmas number 1940, featuring Father Christmas posing for his photograph surrounded by his reindeer. Date: 1940

A Study in Scarlet by A. K. Macdonald
A young lady dressed festively in a white fur-trimmed red gown with muff goes for a walk in the snow. Date: 1905

Native American Chief with wooden masks worn for festive, solemn or judicial occasions. 1908

Festive coquette, Lophornis chalybeus (Audenets hummingbird, Trochilus audenetii). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Festive costume of Conrad Pistor of the Kremer Guild, 1588
Festive costume of Conrad Pistor of the Kremer Guild in 1588, with his coat of arms with ploughshare, indicating blacksmith. From an Aschaffenburg guild book

Mealy amazon and festive amazon
Mealy amazon, Amazona farinosa, and festive amazon, Amazona festiva. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeunes Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837

The Christmas Tree by Joyce Horn
A little girl pops a fairy on top of a Christmas tree as the finishing touch of decoration while an attentive white terrier looks on with interest. Date: c. 1930

The Dolls Christmas Party
A variety of dolls dance around a Christmas tree festooned with ribbons and candles. Date: c. 1930

Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1920
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1920 featuring a woman in stylised medieval dress carrying a small Christmas tree. Date: 1920

Street scene during carnival, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. Date: 1922

Couple in traditional costume, Brittany, Northern France
Couple in traditional costume at carnival time, Brittany, Northern France. 1922

Childrens Christmas party 1847
Little ones in high glee, the room decorated with holly and brilliantly lighted with candles. Neighbouring children come to celebrate the Christmas season

Victor G Ginn catalogue, Christmas Crackers. 1939

Pig with bottles on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

The Sphere Christmas number cover by Pauline Baynes
Uninvited spectators at the Christmas revels. An early Victorian party scene specially painted for The Sphere by Pauline Baynes, better known as the illustrator of C.S. Lewiss Chronicles of Narnia

Christmas Eve by A. Davis
An aerial view of a village covered in a blanket of snow on Christmas Eve. Date: 1936

Searching for Hidden Presents on Christmas Day
A household has fun searching for Christmas presents hidden away in various parts of the house on Christmas Day. Date: 1903

Gigantic Christmas tree at Crystal Palace 1854
The gigantic Christmas tree at Crystal Palace, Sydenham which occupied the central transept. The general design was carried out by Mr Hurwitz, loaded with a variety of ornaments and nicknacks

Christmas tree in history by Pauline Baynes
One of four illustrations by Pauline Baynes for The Illustrated London News Christmas number 1958, tracing the four key moments in the history of the Christmas tree

Christmas tree at the Temperance Hall 1845
Christmas tree, also described as a Tree of Love, by The Illustrated London News, erected on the stage at the Temperance Hall by the London Mission Society who were giving a Christmas celebration for

Pulling a Christmas cracker, New Years Eve by Simon Harmon
Two children in party hats pull a Christmas cracker at the dinner table. Date: 1917

Father Christmas distributing toys by Angusine Macgregor
Father Christmas distributing toys from his sack to a queue of small children dressed in their nightwear. Date: 1917

Months of the year. February
Carnival, a festive season occuring just before Lent, usually during February. Artist: Rie Cramer Date: circa 1926

The Night Before Christmas childrens paper cut-out project, 1914 Date: 1914

A Christmas Gift paper cut-out Project, 1914 Date: 1914

The Childrens Christmas Tree paper cut-out project, 1914 Date: 1914

Ideas for the Christmas dining table, 1914 Date: 1914

Christmas Girl by Florence Hardy
A little girl wearing a festive red fur-trimmed coat, hat and muff rather reminiscent of Father Christmas, poses in the snow making a picturesque winter scene. Date: c.1920

WASSAIL BOWL / CHRISTMAS
Gloucestershire Wassail bowl, ornamented with laurel, mistletoe & ribbons. The large bowl was made from the wood of apple trees. Date: 1846

PHOTOGRAPHING POULTERER
The Festive Season - A Proud Moment: the shopkeeper of a poulterers/butchers is photographed standing in front of his shop while passers-by look on Date: 1883

FESTIVE TOAST 1899
A festive toast at a dinner party to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. Date: 1899

LADY & GREENERY LADY & GREENERY
A lady goes out into the woods to gather festive foliage Date: circa 1900

Man waits to pay for a Christmas tree - Cannock Chase Forest
A man looks bored as he waits to pay for a Christmas tree he has selected in the tree sale at Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1991

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