@culturaltutor: Some old photos of Christmas.....

Some old photos of Christmas...

Midnight Mass at St Dominic's Church, New York, 1942

Christmas Dinner at Newsboys' Lodging House for Homeless Youth, New York, 1900

Family Christmas Dinner in Queensland, 1918... including pineapples!

Christmas Morning by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1844)

Christmas in Philadelphia, 1897

Deffner Family Christmas in Esslingen, 1890

Two Christmas Dinner Menus, one from New Zealand Rail at Wellington in 1940 and one from the H.M.S. Belfast in Hong Kong, 1945

German soldiers celebrating Christmas during the First World War:

An illustration entitled "Serving up the Boar's Head at Queen's College, Oxford, on Christmas Day" for The Graphic, 27 December 1873

A family making Christmas Pudding, Toronto, 1910

Michael Faraday delivering one of his famous Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution in 1856:

On board a British destroyer depot ship at Scapa Flow, 18 December, 1942

Poster advertising "Grand Christmas Revels" at Aston Hall, near Birmingham in England, in 1859.

Notice "the Installation of the Lord of Misrule" among its listed revels.

The "America" on Christmas Eve, 1901, during the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition

Christmas Day by Michael Peter Ancher (1900)

The crew of a British anti-aircraft gun celebrate Christmas with bully beef, 17 December 1942

A photograph entitled "The Old Bachelor prepares his Christmas Dinner" from 1928

A peculiar Christmas Card (c. 1900)

Gustavus III Attending Christmas Mass in St Peter's Basilica in 1783 by Louis Jean Desprez (1784)

Christmas in 1897 at Björkudden with the writer Zacharias Topelius

Christmas Dinner at Ste. Anne's Military Hospital, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada, 1937

King George V making his annual Christmas Broadcast to the nation in 1934

Christmas Eve in Siberia by Jacek Malczewski (1892)

The "Christmas Truce" on the Western Front during the First World War, 1914

Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne by Friedrich Kaulbach (1861)

On Christmas Day in the year 800 AD Charlemagne, King of the Franks, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope.