Photos: Images of Christmases past
Christmas has been celebrated in the trenches and in the most luxurious homes. Take a look at some images of Christmas past from around the world.
Images of Christmases past
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Construction workers line up for pay beside the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York in 1931. The Christmas tree went on to become an annual tradition and a New York landmark. St. Patrick's Cathedral is visible in the background on Fifth Avenue. (AP Photo)
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What with the lighted Christmas trees in front of its portals in Washington on Dec. 25, 1931, the White House presented a beautiful, softly illuminated spectacles on Christmas night, and one at once sensed the serenity and joyous festivity of the day that prevailed behind the closed doors, where the grandchildren of President and Mrs. Hoover, Peggy Ann and Herbert, made merry with their toys and gifts. (AP Photo)
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Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor are shown on Christmas Day, 1932 at their Hyde Park, N.Y. home when members of their family were guests for Christmas dinner. Mrs. Roosevelt holds the young daughter of their son James. (AP Photo)
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The celebration of Christmas day in the birthplace of the Christ. The Christmas religious ceremony through Bethlehem for the service at the Church of the Nativity on Dec. 25, 1937. The Latin patriarch is seen in fur collar advancing between ranks of monks and crusaders. (AP Photo)
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Children and their families, sheltering in a London Underground station from all night Nazi bombing raids, celebrate Christmas with a decorated tree and stockings filled with presents' hanging on the ends of their beds, Dec, 26, 1940. (AP Photo)
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A sailor, his costume made from shorts and old signal flags, makes his rounds on Guadalcanal island, Christmas Day on Dec. 25, 1942, with the temperature near 90 degrees. He handed out gifts furnished by the Red Cross which included pipes, cards, writing paper and soap. (AP Photo/Pool)
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- Robert Clover
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Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was on hand to see the Santa Claus at the Kiwanis Club in Arlington, Va., on Dec. 24, 1942, and to hand out presents to 375 children like this little fellow getting the truck. Her usual Christmas Eve day tour was somewhat curtailed by the reduced number of underprivileged and the resulting elimination of some of the parties. (AP Photo/Robert Clover)
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Taffy Snafu Kaeppel, five-month-old Cocker Spaniel mascot of the Maxwell Field Base WAC Company inquisitively rears up to sniff at presents, some of them for her, beneath the Christmas tree, Dec. 23, 1943. Taffy, officially listed as a technical sergeant, is the property of Lieut. Ruth Kaeppel, Executive Officer of the WAC Company. (AP Photo)
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The world renowned Vienna Boys Choir, are preparing for Christmas in the Chapel of the Hofburg, the Palace of the Emperor of Austria, where the choir is living at the present time. The choir consists of 60 boys ranging from 10 to 14 years. The boys have been scheduled to entertain Allied troops stationed in Vienna, during the Christmas festivities. The famous Vienna Boys Choir are seen rehearsing in the Chapel of the Hofburg in the palace of the Austrian Emperor at Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 21, 1945. (AP Photo)
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An estimated 4000 people line both sides of 51st St. waiting to see the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Dec. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Tony Camerano)
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- Carl Nesensohn
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Last minute Chistmas Eve shoppers gather in front of Macy's window display in New York, Dec. 24, 1946( AP Photo/Carl Nesensohn)
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In comfortably heated houses or outdoors in cold winds, the old carols are heard as Christmas nears. The two groups seen here present a paradox. In Hollywood, where costumes are part of the movie scene, the carol singers are unconsumed; in Chicago, Dec. 17, 1947, by contrast, they are dressed for the occasion. Here, at a Hollywood party, host Atwater Kent, center, sings with Jimmy Durante and Jane Powell. The occasion was Kent's Annual Christmas Party for the Braille Institute of America at his Bel-Air estate. (AP Photo)
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The Star of Bethlehem is lit in the Church of St. Catherine, Bethlehem, during midnight mass, Dec. 24, 1947. (AP Photo)
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The landmark Christmas tree at New York's Rockefeller Plaza stands out Dec. 26, 1947 as a few hardy pedestrians make their way through the snow drifts of one of the heaviest winter storms in years. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)
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Four carolers, attired in the mode of the 1860s, sing Christmas songs as the first appreciable snow of the season blankets in Kansas City, Missouri, on Dec. 23, 1948. The songsters stand before a backdrop of Christmas lights, which outline buildings in the Southside Plaza District. Left to right are: Jerry Wooden, Neal Stuessi, Patricia Kidd, and Bill Piehler, all of Kansas City. (AP Photo)
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- Henry Burroughs
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Young Berliners get a treat at the U.S. Army's Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Dec. 15, 1948. Christmas gifts from a flying Santa, Lt. John Konop of Astoria, NY. This is the first planeload of gifts to be distributed to Berlin children under the Air Forces Christmas program, Operation Santa Claus. The gifts were donated by people in the United States and flown to Berlin via the air lift. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)
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Actor Humphrey Bogart and his wife, actress Lauren Bacall, help their son Stephen decorate a small Christmas tree in their home in Hollywood, Calif., on Dec. 20, 1950. (AP Photo)
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- George Sweers
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The Christmas spirit is well in evidence on the Korean front as Seventh Division GIs spell out a snowy holiday message to the folks at home on Dec. 14, 1952. A Korean youngster watches the soldiers , who are , from left to right, PFC George Torelli, New York City; PFC Mario Vairo, also of New York; PFC Elmer Devenney, Clementon , NJ; PFC Richard Coleschen, Clinton , LA; PFC Norman A. Bell , Waukegan , ILL and PFC Anthony R. Ferraro, New York City. (AP Photo/George Sweers)
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The Rockfeller Center Christmas tree and decorations on 1952 at New York. (AP Photo)
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A mother mother gazes at her child who sleeps peacefully beside a candle lit Christmas tree following their Christmas Eve escape from communist dominated Hungary on December 25, 1956 in Austria. (AP Photo/Pierre Godot)
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President Eisenhower, right, faces the National Christmas Tree as he lighted it in Washington formally opening the annual Christmas Pageant of Peace on Dec. 23, 1960. The tree is erected in the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House. (AP Photo)
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Elvis Presley poses by a Christmas tree at his home in Memphis, Tenn., in 1960. (AP Photo)
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- Henry Burroughs
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The Christmas tree in the White House Blue Room gets Caroline Kennedy's attention, Dec. 13, 1961 as she inspects it before a party for White House employees given by her parents. In the background are her aunt, Jean Kennedy Smith and cousin Stephen Smith, Jr.. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy stand by the Christmas tree in the main entrance hall of the White House during a party for the staff of the Executive Mansion in Washington D.C. on Dec. 12, 1962. (AP Photo)
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The Radio City Rockettes, 36 in total, are about to rehearse their precision 20-kick-a-minute routine for the annual Christmas Spectacular show at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Dec. 13, 1962. The theater is celebrating its 30th anniversary. (AP Photo)
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Some of the 3,000 Roman Catholic Arabs living in Israel who were allowed to cross into Jordan on Christmas Eve Dec. 24, 1962 to celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem, wave to waiting relatives as they stand at Mandelbaum Gate, Jerusalem, before entering Jordan. (AP Photo)
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Bing Crosby and Mary Martin, backed by a United Nations-type children's choir, sing "White Christmas" during shooting of ABC-TV's first color spectacular, Dec. 19, 1962 scheduled to be shown on Christmas. The children were recruited for the show in California. (AP Photo)
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Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas Tree (center background, standing before the RCA Building) and unique Christmas Decorations this year, in New York City's Rockefeller Center during the Christmas Holiday Season of 1962. (AP Photo)
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Buster Keaton, comic film actor from the silent era, dressed as Santa Claus and Bobbi Shaw in the roll of Santa's helper, exchange Christmas presents on the set of the film "Beach Blanket Bingo" in Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 17, 1964. Keaton's activities take place in a space ship of the future. (AP Photo/DAD)
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U.S. Marines from Alpha Company tank platoon sit on their M-60 with a Christmas tree they made Saturday, Dec. 10, 1983. The tree is decorated with soft drink cans and beer cans. (AP Photo/Bill Foley)
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U.S. President Richard Nixon, first lady Pat Nixon and their daughter Tricia stand beside the Christmas tree in the main lobby of the White House on Dec. 21, 1969, following a worship service. (AP Photo)
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Carols are sung beneath the illuminated Christmas tree in New York's Rockefeller Plaza, USA in 1971. (AP Photo)
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Christmas scenes at Rockefeller Center mall in New York City on Dec. 17, 1974. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff )
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A Christmas tree and seasonal decorations near army checkpoints in the city centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland in December 1977. (AP Photo)
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First lady Rosalynn Carter and daughter Amy hosted a Christmas party, Dec. 21, 1978 in Washington at the White House for diplomatic children from all embassies in the Washington area and "Sesame Street's" Big Bird showed up for the party. Shown from left meeting Big Bird are Amy Carter holding nephew James, 1, Jason, 3 and standing in back are newscaster Walter Cronkite and Mrs. Carter. Cronkite took part in the program for the children. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)
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The reigning Miss World, 18 year-old Pilin Leon from Venezuela, smiles and waves as she switches on the traditional Oxford Street Christmas lights in London, United Kingdom, on Thursday evening, November 19, 1981. The Venezuelan beauty was crowned Miss World in London on November 12, 1981. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)
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Actor Jimmy Stewart and his wife Gloria ride down Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood serving as Grand Marshall for the 56th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade, Nov. 29, 1987. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
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- BARRY THUMMA
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President Reagan and Nancy Reagan pose next to their Christmas tree, Thursday, Dec. 22, 1988 in the White House.
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- Katie Callan
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Iran Mitchell reacts as he opens a Christmas toy given to him by Calif. Highway Patrol Officer Wesley M. Schwark at the First AME Church in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 12, 1998. The Highway Patrol officers from the Central Angeles office along with several other groups donated toys and food for the children of South-Central Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Katie Callan)
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- Doug Mills
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U.S. President George H. Bush shakes hand with Santa Claus, being portrayed by television personality Williard Scott, while lighting the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 1989. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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Regent Street, one of London's busiest shopping districts, is decorated for Christmas, 1989. (AP Photo)
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- Lynne Sladky
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The yuletide spirit arrived in Somalia on Christmas Eve with a shipment of evergreens, snacks, and newspapers from the people of Philadelphia for the American troops on duty in Operation Restore Hope on Dec. 24, 1992 in Mogadishu. Enjoying their Christmas gifts are, from left, Lance Cpl. Jacob Holloway of Bryan, Ohio and Lance Cpl. John Woodhouse, from Baltimore, MD. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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- Doug Mills
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First Lady Barbara Bush, center, gestures at the White House while showing off the Christmas decorations, Monday, Dec. 8, 1992, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Bush accused the press corps on Monday of being humorless, making up anonymous sources and falsely depicting her husband as despondent after his election defeat. After having her say she remarked, "I feel better for that." The woman on the right is unidentified. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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President George Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush pose with some of their festively dressed grandchildren and friends prior to participating in the taping of NBC's "Christmas in Washington," Sunday, Dec. 13, 1992. From left are: Jordan Jones, Joseph McCarthy, kneeling, granddaughter Ellie LeBlond, grand daughter Marshall Bush, and Ashley Hanson Riegle, daughter of Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich. The show will air in the near future. (AP Photo/Stephen R. Brown)
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- Wilfredo Lee
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President-elect Bill Clinton claps after singing Christmas carols at the Governors Mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas Thursday, Dec. 17, 1992. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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- DOUG MILLS
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First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton points to a gingerbread house during a tour of the White House Christmas decorations, Monday Dec. 6, 1993. Showcasing the "best of America," Mrs. Clinton unveiled the decorations, a cozy display of crafts, trees and "funky and down to earth" ornaments. White House head pastry chef Roland Mesnier is at left. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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Boy with Christmas tree in Bosnia Herzegovina, Dec. 29, 1993. (AP Photo)
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- MARK WILSON
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Chelsea Clinton practices her role as the Favorite Aunt in the Washington Ballet's production of the Christmas classic, "The Nutcracker" at the Warner Theatre in Washington Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1994. The show will open later in December at the Warner Theatre in downtown Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)
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- JOSE GOITIA
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A young Cuban gazes at the Nativity scene Friday, Dec. 22, 2000 in Old Havana, Cuba. This is the fourth year that Christmas will be celebrated as an official holiday on the island. In 1997 the government reinstated Christmas as a holiday just before the historic visit to Cuba by John Paul II in January 1998..(AP Photo/Jose Goitia)
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Images of Christmases past
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Construction workers line up for pay beside the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York in 1931. The Christmas tree went on to become an annual tradition and a New York landmark. St. Patrick's Cathedral is visible in the background on Fifth Avenue. (AP Photo)
Images of Christmases past
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
What with the lighted Christmas trees in front of its portals in Washington on Dec. 25, 1931, the White House presented a beautiful, softly illuminated spectacles on Christmas night, and one at once sensed the serenity and joyous festivity of the day that prevailed behind the closed doors, where the grandchildren of President and Mrs. Hoover, Peggy Ann and Herbert, made merry with their toys and gifts. (AP Photo)
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Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor are shown on Christmas Day, 1932 at their Hyde Park, N.Y. home when members of their family were guests for Christmas dinner. Mrs. Roosevelt holds the young daughter of their son James. (AP Photo)
Images of Christmases past
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
The celebration of Christmas day in the birthplace of the Christ. The Christmas religious ceremony through Bethlehem for the service at the Church of the Nativity on Dec. 25, 1937. The Latin patriarch is seen in fur collar advancing between ranks of monks and crusaders. (AP Photo)
Images of Christmases past
- AP
Children and their families, sheltering in a London Underground station from all night Nazi bombing raids, celebrate Christmas with a decorated tree and stockings filled with presents' hanging on the ends of their beds, Dec, 26, 1940. (AP Photo)
Images of Christmases past
- Anonymous
A sailor, his costume made from shorts and old signal flags, makes his rounds on Guadalcanal island, Christmas Day on Dec. 25, 1942, with the temperature near 90 degrees. He handed out gifts furnished by the Red Cross which included pipes, cards, writing paper and soap. (AP Photo/Pool)
Images of Christmases past
- Robert Clover
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was on hand to see the Santa Claus at the Kiwanis Club in Arlington, Va., on Dec. 24, 1942, and to hand out presents to 375 children like this little fellow getting the truck. Her usual Christmas Eve day tour was somewhat curtailed by the reduced number of underprivileged and the resulting elimination of some of the parties. (AP Photo/Robert Clover)
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- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Taffy Snafu Kaeppel, five-month-old Cocker Spaniel mascot of the Maxwell Field Base WAC Company inquisitively rears up to sniff at presents, some of them for her, beneath the Christmas tree, Dec. 23, 1943. Taffy, officially listed as a technical sergeant, is the property of Lieut. Ruth Kaeppel, Executive Officer of the WAC Company. (AP Photo)
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- AP
The world renowned Vienna Boys Choir, are preparing for Christmas in the Chapel of the Hofburg, the Palace of the Emperor of Austria, where the choir is living at the present time. The choir consists of 60 boys ranging from 10 to 14 years. The boys have been scheduled to entertain Allied troops stationed in Vienna, during the Christmas festivities. The famous Vienna Boys Choir are seen rehearsing in the Chapel of the Hofburg in the palace of the Austrian Emperor at Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 21, 1945. (AP Photo)
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- ASSOCIATED PRESS
In comfortably heated houses or outdoors in cold winds, the old carols are heard as Christmas nears. The two groups seen here present a paradox. In Hollywood, where costumes are part of the movie scene, the carol singers are unconsumed; in Chicago, Dec. 17, 1947, by contrast, they are dressed for the occasion. Here, at a Hollywood party, host Atwater Kent, center, sings with Jimmy Durante and Jane Powell. The occasion was Kent's Annual Christmas Party for the Braille Institute of America at his Bel-Air estate. (AP Photo)
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- HARRY HARRIS
The landmark Christmas tree at New York's Rockefeller Plaza stands out Dec. 26, 1947 as a few hardy pedestrians make their way through the snow drifts of one of the heaviest winter storms in years. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)
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- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Four carolers, attired in the mode of the 1860s, sing Christmas songs as the first appreciable snow of the season blankets in Kansas City, Missouri, on Dec. 23, 1948. The songsters stand before a backdrop of Christmas lights, which outline buildings in the Southside Plaza District. Left to right are: Jerry Wooden, Neal Stuessi, Patricia Kidd, and Bill Piehler, all of Kansas City. (AP Photo)
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- Henry Burroughs
Young Berliners get a treat at the U.S. Army's Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Dec. 15, 1948. Christmas gifts from a flying Santa, Lt. John Konop of Astoria, NY. This is the first planeload of gifts to be distributed to Berlin children under the Air Forces Christmas program, Operation Santa Claus. The gifts were donated by people in the United States and flown to Berlin via the air lift. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)
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- George Sweers
The Christmas spirit is well in evidence on the Korean front as Seventh Division GIs spell out a snowy holiday message to the folks at home on Dec. 14, 1952. A Korean youngster watches the soldiers , who are , from left to right, PFC George Torelli, New York City; PFC Mario Vairo, also of New York; PFC Elmer Devenney, Clementon , NJ; PFC Richard Coleschen, Clinton , LA; PFC Norman A. Bell , Waukegan , ILL and PFC Anthony R. Ferraro, New York City. (AP Photo/George Sweers)
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- Pierre Godot
A mother mother gazes at her child who sleeps peacefully beside a candle lit Christmas tree following their Christmas Eve escape from communist dominated Hungary on December 25, 1956 in Austria. (AP Photo/Pierre Godot)
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- Anonymous
President Eisenhower, right, faces the National Christmas Tree as he lighted it in Washington formally opening the annual Christmas Pageant of Peace on Dec. 23, 1960. The tree is erected in the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House. (AP Photo)
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- Henry Burroughs
The Christmas tree in the White House Blue Room gets Caroline Kennedy's attention, Dec. 13, 1961 as she inspects it before a party for White House employees given by her parents. In the background are her aunt, Jean Kennedy Smith and cousin Stephen Smith, Jr.. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)
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- ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy stand by the Christmas tree in the main entrance hall of the White House during a party for the staff of the Executive Mansion in Washington D.C. on Dec. 12, 1962. (AP Photo)
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- Anonymous
The Radio City Rockettes, 36 in total, are about to rehearse their precision 20-kick-a-minute routine for the annual Christmas Spectacular show at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Dec. 13, 1962. The theater is celebrating its 30th anniversary. (AP Photo)
Images of Christmases past
- Anonymous
Some of the 3,000 Roman Catholic Arabs living in Israel who were allowed to cross into Jordan on Christmas Eve Dec. 24, 1962 to celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem, wave to waiting relatives as they stand at Mandelbaum Gate, Jerusalem, before entering Jordan. (AP Photo)
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- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bing Crosby and Mary Martin, backed by a United Nations-type children's choir, sing "White Christmas" during shooting of ABC-TV's first color spectacular, Dec. 19, 1962 scheduled to be shown on Christmas. The children were recruited for the show in California. (AP Photo)
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Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas Tree (center background, standing before the RCA Building) and unique Christmas Decorations this year, in New York City's Rockefeller Center during the Christmas Holiday Season of 1962. (AP Photo)
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- DAD
Buster Keaton, comic film actor from the silent era, dressed as Santa Claus and Bobbi Shaw in the roll of Santa's helper, exchange Christmas presents on the set of the film "Beach Blanket Bingo" in Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 17, 1964. Keaton's activities take place in a space ship of the future. (AP Photo/DAD)
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- Mark Wilson
First lady Rosalynn Carter and daughter Amy hosted a Christmas party, Dec. 21, 1978 in Washington at the White House for diplomatic children from all embassies in the Washington area and "Sesame Street's" Big Bird showed up for the party. Shown from left meeting Big Bird are Amy Carter holding nephew James, 1, Jason, 3 and standing in back are newscaster Walter Cronkite and Mrs. Carter. Cronkite took part in the program for the children. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)
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- Dave Caulkin
The reigning Miss World, 18 year-old Pilin Leon from Venezuela, smiles and waves as she switches on the traditional Oxford Street Christmas lights in London, United Kingdom, on Thursday evening, November 19, 1981. The Venezuelan beauty was crowned Miss World in London on November 12, 1981. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)
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- Katie Callan
Iran Mitchell reacts as he opens a Christmas toy given to him by Calif. Highway Patrol Officer Wesley M. Schwark at the First AME Church in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 12, 1998. The Highway Patrol officers from the Central Angeles office along with several other groups donated toys and food for the children of South-Central Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Katie Callan)
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- Doug Mills
U.S. President George H. Bush shakes hand with Santa Claus, being portrayed by television personality Williard Scott, while lighting the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 1989. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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- Lynne Sladky
The yuletide spirit arrived in Somalia on Christmas Eve with a shipment of evergreens, snacks, and newspapers from the people of Philadelphia for the American troops on duty in Operation Restore Hope on Dec. 24, 1992 in Mogadishu. Enjoying their Christmas gifts are, from left, Lance Cpl. Jacob Holloway of Bryan, Ohio and Lance Cpl. John Woodhouse, from Baltimore, MD. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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- Doug Mills
First Lady Barbara Bush, center, gestures at the White House while showing off the Christmas decorations, Monday, Dec. 8, 1992, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Bush accused the press corps on Monday of being humorless, making up anonymous sources and falsely depicting her husband as despondent after his election defeat. After having her say she remarked, "I feel better for that." The woman on the right is unidentified. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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- Stephen R. Brown
President George Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush pose with some of their festively dressed grandchildren and friends prior to participating in the taping of NBC's "Christmas in Washington," Sunday, Dec. 13, 1992. From left are: Jordan Jones, Joseph McCarthy, kneeling, granddaughter Ellie LeBlond, grand daughter Marshall Bush, and Ashley Hanson Riegle, daughter of Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich. The show will air in the near future. (AP Photo/Stephen R. Brown)
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- DOUG MILLS
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton points to a gingerbread house during a tour of the White House Christmas decorations, Monday Dec. 6, 1993. Showcasing the "best of America," Mrs. Clinton unveiled the decorations, a cozy display of crafts, trees and "funky and down to earth" ornaments. White House head pastry chef Roland Mesnier is at left. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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- MARK WILSON
Chelsea Clinton practices her role as the Favorite Aunt in the Washington Ballet's production of the Christmas classic, "The Nutcracker" at the Warner Theatre in Washington Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1994. The show will open later in December at the Warner Theatre in downtown Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)
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- JOSE GOITIA
A young Cuban gazes at the Nativity scene Friday, Dec. 22, 2000 in Old Havana, Cuba. This is the fourth year that Christmas will be celebrated as an official holiday on the island. In 1997 the government reinstated Christmas as a holiday just before the historic visit to Cuba by John Paul II in January 1998..(AP Photo/Jose Goitia)
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