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Tag: Christmas
Pathe’ Christmas
Jennette Loff & Carole Lombard in a publicity still for Pathe’ Christmas, 1929.
Rudolph Turns 80
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created by Robert L. May, a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward headquarters in Chicago.
Christmas Gifts
US Military reminder to get your overseas Christmas packages sent soon, so they would arrive on time
God Bless Us, Every One
Norman Rockwell Painting for the Saturday Evening Post, Dec 15th, 1934
Glad Tidings, 1935
200 Years of Silent Night
Silent Night (Stille Nacht) was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818, at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria. The song was composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr. Below is a USO Christmas card from the early 40s with the lyrics to that famous carol.
Only the first two verses are presented on the card above, the last verse goes:
Silent night! holy night!
Son of God love’s pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord at thy birth.
Jesus, Lord at thy birth.
Santa and his dear, 1938
W.C Fields in “The Big Broadcast of 1938”
Lucky Santa, 1937
Santa Claus used in this 1937 advertisement for Lucky Strike.
Only 4 More Days
June Lang posing with a sign for Christmas, 1930s