Xmas Collection (page 100)

Boer Christmas Card
Christmas card from the Boer War featuring a caricature of President Kruger, 1899 Date: 1899

Santa Claus on the telephone
Santa takes a call, 1892 Date: 1892

Santa Claus umbrella
Santa Claus Umbrella Date: 1897

Santa Claus at Crystal Palace
Santa Claus at home daily at Crystal Palace, 1898 Date: 1898

Rothwells Christmas Novelties advert, a boy waving goodbye to Santa Claus on Christmas Eve 1908 Date: 1908

Making a Christmas Pudding
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster Making the Empire Christmas Pudding Date: 1927-1933

The government asks you to do your Xmas shopping early - Do it now. Poster showing an allegorical female figure holding a sword and an American flag. Date 1918

The Graphic Christmas Number, Nativity scene
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number (date unknown, but probably 1920s), featuring an illustration of a Nativity scene. Date: 1920s

Skiing friends, 1930s
A group enjoy a day of skiing, although one woman appears to have taken a tumble. Date: 1930s

Personalised family Christmas card, c. 1900
Brilliant Christmas card from the late Victorian/early Edwardian era, showing a Christmas cracker being pulled to reveal the four faces of a family who send their greetings from Craig-Gowan

Sonato de Otono (Song of Autumn)
Woman in an elaborate stage costume preparing to perform a Song of Autumn. Date: 1921

Christmas in the 1930s - Dicky Bird by Val Soey
Two jolly looking friends, wrapped up warm against the cold, sit on the dicky seat of a convertible car as it zooms through the snow

The Sketch Christmas Number front cover 1940
Stylised graphic cover of The Sketch magazine, for the Christmas number 1940 featuring a bejewelled hand holding some mistletoe against a backdrop of holly. Date: 1940

The Graphic Christmas Number 1927
Front cover of the Graphic Christmas Number for 1927 featuring a figurine of a couple on a windowsill while outside, people scurry through the snow. Date: 1927

Xmas card. Children and a Father Christmas
Traditional Victorian Christmas card Date: 1868

Girl laden with Xmas gifts
Girl over-laden with exotic Christmas gifts in a winter setting Date: circa 1924

Silhouette. Family celebrate Xmas
Illustration from German postcard of a family celebrating round the Christmas tree.Date: circa 1912

Christmas Postcard - December 25th Date: 1911

Xmas card. Red Riding Hood
Traditional Victorian Christmas card Date: 1872

Xmas card. Girl & child on a yule log
Traditional Victorian Christmas card Date: circa 1872

Guests at a Christmas or New Years Party, possibly at the Savoy Hotel, London. Some of the guests are in medieval style fancy dress, carrying in the traditional Boars Head decorated with holly

Choosing Christmas dinner, Manchester
A woman choosing her Christmas dinner goose at one of many stands at the Central Market in Manchester. It was customary in many of the markets of the North of England for geese

Lady driver with her Christmas shopping in the back
Lady driver with her Christmas shopping on the back seats! A Russian card, but with a HEAVY European/Germanic influence. Date: 1909

Christmas decorations in Covent Garden, London
Holly, ivy and Christmas trees on sale at Covent Garden, London, just before Christmas 1911. 1911

British Legion Childrens Christmas Party, Walton, Essex

Sir William Treloar distributing Christmas gifts
Sir William Purdie Treloar (1843-1923) distributing Christmas gifts to the poor. He began his annual charitable activities in the East End of London by the distribution of Christmas hampers to poor

Xmas card. Giving alms to a beggar with dog
Traditional Victorian Christmas card Date: 1868

Railway station, Jerusalem
View of the railway station, Jerusalem, on a Christmas postcard. A verse is on the right, spelling out HAPPY CHRISTMAS. Date: early 20th century

Bringing home the Xmas gifts
Children pulling a sled through the town bearing gifts & a Christmas tree.Date: circa 1910

Christmas greetings postcard with dance-related poem
Christmas greetings postcard featuring an inset photograph of a pretty girl wearing a sheer veil, over a sprig of holly, above the following dance-themed poem: " Like a dance be your Christmas

Xmas. A robin at the window
A young boy in blue saying hello to a robin at his window. Artist: Anne Anderson Date: circa 1919

Childrens Christmas Party, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A childrens Christmas party given by the town of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 1955

A young flapper girl in a Christmas theme dress
Front Cover of " The Sketch Book & Winters Pie" by Elsie Harding. A young flapper girl in a Christmas theme dress holding flags, balloons and masks. Date: 1928- 1929

Two little girls on Christmas Greetings postcard

Xmas card. Toasting Xmas
Traditional Victorian Christmas card Date: 1868

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1930
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number featuring a pre-WWI Christmas party with people enjoying a music recital. Date: 1930

The Graphic Christmas Number 1924 front cover
Front cover of The Graphic, Christmas Number 1924 featuring a gleeful cherub riding a concerned looking turkey, who has the added humiliation of a Christmas cracker hanging around his neck. Date: 1924

Cover design for The Poster, Christmas Number
Cover design for The Poster, an illustrated monthly chronicle, Double Christmas Number, price one shilling. Showing a naked female figure with mistletoe. late 1890s

Advertisement for silhouette portraits, Leicester
Advertisement for silhouette portraits by silhouette artist H.L. Oakley MBE, at Joseph Johnson and Company Limited, Market Street and Belvoir Street, Leicester

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1931
Stylised front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1931 featuring a lady wearing a full skirted dress seated on a chaise longue in a modern art deco apartment. Date: 1931

Advertisement for Selfridges toys for Christmas, with a silhouette of children hanging up their stockings ready to be filled with presents

Decorative Christmas frieze - Christmas minstrels
A simple but dramatic Christmas scene featuring three musicians standing outside a house in the snow playing their instruments. c.1925

Christmas Eve in Canada with a a wooden cabin just visible in the dark and the snow, its warm light inviting. Outside, horses are ready to pull a sleigh through the deep snow. Date: 1926

Silhouette of people dancing
Christmas in Rhineland -- a group of five people and a dog, dancing in a circle as part of the festivities

Decorative Christmas frieze - coach and horses
Simple but dramatic Christmas scene featuring a silhouette of a coach and horses, with postillion in full flow, dashing through a snowy landscape. c. 1925

Silhouettes of traditional Christmas scenes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, cut by H. L. Oakley with his magic scissors

Riding to Bethlehem by Francis Taylor
Stylised illustration or, as it is described in the caption, illumination showing the Three Kings following the star to Bethlehem. Date: 1927

The Star That Would Not Light by Hugh Williams
A group of child like angels gather together in the night sky but try as they might, they cannot get one lone star to light and twinkle. Date: 1926

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