Festive Collection (page 4)

Christmas Day 1854
A page of vignettes showing how Christmas Day was traditionally celebrated by Victorian families in the 1850s. Stockings and present giving was followed by church

Christmas Greetings - Emmy Wehlen
Front cover photograph from The Sketch magazine featuring actress Emmy Whelan in a snow covered photographic studio posing underneath the word Greetngs. Date: 1909

A Question of Precedence by Dennis Mallet
Father Christmas and a stork bringing a new baby find they have arrived at a chimney pot at the same time. Date: 1938

Simpson of Piccadilly advertisement, 1950 - Xmas gifts
Advertisement for Simpson of Piccadilly featuring a couple exchanging Christmas gifts and exchanging gifts under the mistletoe. Date: 1950

The Tatler front cover - Christmas Number 1938
Front cover of The Tatler designed by Tony Wysard. The Tatler, complete in familiar tricorn hat, eye glass and frock coat, comes to face to face with Father Christmas. Date: 1938

Falling To - and In by H. M. Bateman
The Small Boy: Ma! Ma! Quick Ma! Come ere; babys eating all the plum-pudding mixture. Occupational hazard during Christmas food preparation in a busy family home, as imagined by H. M

The Hold Up by Harold Earnshaw
The Hold Up! A Startling Christmas Eve Incident. A small child emerges at the top of a chimney on a snow-topped roof offering his empty stocking to a rather startled looking Father Christmas

Three robins sampling the punch on a Christmas card
Three robins sampling a bowl of punch on a Christmas card, watched by a cat. Date: circa 1890s

Jolly Gentleman heads home for Christmas with goodies
Theres a good time coming. Jolly Gentleman heads home for Christmas bearing a wide variety of festive goodies, including a goose, presents, holly and ivy, mistletoe and a bottle of something strong

Four pigs with festive food on a cutout Christmas card (front). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Woman looks surprised entering room decorated for Christmas
Woman in 1970s dress and headscarf is caught with surprise when entering room decorated for Christmas with a heavy wallpaper pattern. Middlesbrough, England. Date: 1970s

Paloc young girl in festive winter church clothes. 1870. Hun
Young girl in festive winter church clothes. 1870. From Paloc Nogradmarcal, Nograd. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

The Pharisees told the man not to transport the bed on the Sabbath. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

You Are An Imposter Sir - warring Santas
Crowds outside a department store, look on bemused as one Father Christmas rips off the beard of another declaring, You are an imposter, sir! Date: 1951

Christmas Cake / 1930S
A delicious looking cake complete with festive decoration Date: 1930s

Christmas Morning 1919
Impression of Christmas morning 1919 by H. M. Brock, the counterpart of an illustration done by H. M. Brocks brother, C. E. Brock of a Victorian Christmas morning in 1869

And So Home - By Christmas Moonlight in the Sketch
Colour photograph of And So Home - By Christmas Moonlight, from the picture by Lendon, published in the Sketch of 26th December 1928. Date: 26th December 1928

Merry Christmas - couple pulling a Christmas Cracker. circa 1890

The Mystery of Santa Claus by Molly Benatar
Illustrated poem by Molly Benatar - images depict children sleeping in their beds as Santas helpers lay a web of dreams over their heads. Date: 1921

B Ward, Christmas 1918, Quex Park VAD Hospital
B Ward in Gallery 1 of the Powell-Cotton Museum on Christmas Day 1918. This was the first Gallery of the Museum, built in 1896

Christmas 1918 in A Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital
A Ward in the Drawing Room of Quex House on Christmas Day 1918. The room is highly decorated with flags, greetings, paper decorations and festive greenery

Cover of Ladies Home Journal
Christmas Cover for Ladies Home Journal 1914 - And so as Tiny Tim Observed - God Bless us Every one Date: 1914

Bringing in the Boars Head (and the Colmans Mustard!) - Christmas Feasting tradition. Date: circa 17th century

Captain tasting the mens dinner on Christmas day
Cooking the plum pudding in a German steel helmet - A Christmas Scene in a British dug-out at the front. 1916

Illustrated London News Christmas Number, 1928 Felix de Gray
Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1928 featuring an illustration by Felix de Gray of a an elegant group of revellers during the 1830s, gathered around a Christmas tree

The Christmas Tree by J. A. Pasquier
A Victorian family gather around a Christmas tree. Date: 1858

A Dickensy Yuletide by C. E. Brock
As Known by the Novelist who Loved it Best: A Dickensy Yuletide. Christmas in the time of Charles Dickens with a coach and horses, jolly Pickwickian types and a game of blind mans buff

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1908
Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number for 1908 with an illustration of a fairy amid holly, wearing its ruby berries as a necklace. Date: 1908

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1880 Kate Greenaway
Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1880 featuring a small child in a fur coat, muff and feathered hat carrying a branch of holly. Date: 1880

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1914 WW1
The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1914 with an illustration by Samuel Begg showing a British soldier holding a huge, steaming Christmas pudding decorated with Allied flags and holly

The Sea-gulls Christmas Dinner by Claude Shepperson
The Sea-gulls Christmas Dinner. A Winter Scene at the Round Pond, Kensington Gardens by Claude A. Shepperson. Date: 1910

The Graphic cover - Christmas Number 1910
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1910 featuring a jester, servant and page boy in Tudor dress bringing in boars head at a festive feast. Date: 1910

The Snow Lady by Mina Greenhill
A lady dressed in medieval costume standing in the snow surrounded by fairies and sprites. Date: 1920

The Christmas Mask by Reginald Higgins
A stylish woman in a fur-trimmed outfit tries out a Father Christmas mask. Date: 1920

Front cover of The Sphere for Christmas 1915, WW1
Front cover of The Sphere for Christmas 1915, with two Christmas trees, a photo of a soldier in the snow, and advertisements for the Willett Light, Ronuk polishes, Shoolbreds blankets and linens

A suggestion for a festive, post-war Trafalgar Square
Picture illustrating a suggestion for a post-war Christmas festival to be held in Trafalgar Square which for four years had been a centre for wartime recruitment and fundraising

Out by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1919
And may he never be " called up" again! Father Christmas casts off the uniform and weapons of First World War soldiering

Homeward Bound on Christmas Eve by H. L. Oakley
The broken trace in 1818, and a burst tyre in 1919. A silhouette contrasting two modes of transport a century apart by Harry Lawrence Oakley. Date: 1919

New Year at the East London Hospital
The New Year is celebrated at the East London Hospital for Children, which had been founded in January 1868 by Dr Nathaniel Heckford and his wife

Christmas Feasting in the 14th century
Artists impression of a banquet of the 14th century. The tables were narrow and movable, consisting of boards resting on trestles

The Pudding in Danger, Christmas WW1
A sailor on board a Royal Navy battleship keeps his balance on deck during a storm in order to preserve a fine Christmas pudding which has been sent from home. Date: 1916

Christmas Leave by A. C. Michael, WW1
Scene on the platform of a British railway station as a troop train arrives bringing with it officers and men back from the Front for a period of leave over Christmas. Date: 1916

Drawing Lots for Christmas Leave, WW1
Illustration by Samuel Begg in the Illustrated London News Christmas Number for 1916 showing British soldiers on the Western Front drawing lots out of a steel helmet to decide who gets Christmas

Daddys Christmas Dinner by Samuel Begg, WW1
Illustration for the ILN 1916 Christmas number showing a mother and her children packing a special parcel to be sent to her husband at the front

Christmas Day with the Fleet, sailors enjoy Xmas dinner, WW1
Sailors as guests of Lady Beatty (wife of Admiral Beatty) enjoying a Christmas dinner " somewhere in Scotland." The wives of officers of the Grand Fleet helped to make the dinner a success

Christmas Day at the Aldwych YMCA Rest Hut, WW1
Soldiers and sailors enjoying some lively entertainment at the busy Aldwych Rest Hut, Christmas 1916. Gifts of pipes, tobacco

Christmas Festivities in the Shakspere Hut, WW1
A busy scene of festive jollity at the Shakspere Hut, one of numerous YMCA huts erected around London during the First World War to provide rest, food

Dragon Dance, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA
Dragon Dance in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA Date: circa 1940

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