A Collection of the Best Christmas Holiday Resources
Bill’s Antique Christmas Lights Museum has historical information on Christmas lights, from how Christmas lights originated to light sets from 1900 to the 1950′s, complete with cool photos of light sets and their original containers. Click on the thumbnail photos and you can get a look at the antique light sets up close. Bill’s Antique [...]
The Online Victoriana Magazine is devoted to Victorian era design. Here you will find article information from the magazine itself as well as links to sites on numerous topics including decorating a Victorian style Christmas tree, making your own Victorian Christmas cards, historical pictures of Victorian toys, creating authentic Christmas ornaments and much more. Online [...]
WishbookWeb.com has a list of vintage Christmas catalogs you can look through online. Vintage Christmas catalogs include Speigel 1933, Sears 1943, JC Penny 1966, FAO Schwartz 1967 and many more catalogs. Take a step back into products that are priced low and memories of vintage catalog items you may have grown up with. WishbookWeb.com Vintage [...]
Theholidayspot.com has listed Christmas traditions around the world. Have you ever wondered how Christmas traditions differ in other countries? Learn how people in Argentina, Ireland, Portugal, Russia and other countries celebrate the Christmas holiday. Theholidayspot.com Christmas Around the World
For you history buffs this page has detailed historical information about the origins of Christmas including the nativity, customs, Saint Nick, Christmas trees, tree decorations, Christmas plants, traditional Christmas foods, Christmas carols and Christmas cards. There are some wonderful ancient Christmas pictures in this article as well. American Christmas Origins
Wikipedia has a detailed article about the history of the Christmas tree. There is a long list of real trees we use in America for Christmas and history about artificial trees in America and in other countries. Did you know that the standing Christmas tree originated in 16th century Germany and that the first artificial [...]
History.com has a long list of Christmas traditions for different countries and some history on the origins of Christmas. Did you know that the Christmas we know today in the U.S. was originated in Victorian times? Under the “Watch Christmas Videos” section there are videos on topics such as the origin of Santa, Christmas trees [...]
Wikipedia provides extensive historical information on the Christmas holiday, customs of Christmas in different countries, the nativity to the origin of Santa Claus history buffs or students researching Christmas history will find Wikipedia’s information very helpful. Wikipedia Christmas
If you are old enough you may remember the dimestore Christmas villages made out of cardboard displayed during the holidays. This site provides a history of these dimestore Christmas village houses with original pictures of the village houses, catalog pages and historical information: Papa Ted’s Place
If you are interested in photos and history of Christmas lights this museum site is for you. Lots of in depth information from the early days of pre-electricity decorations to electric Christmas lights and how these decorations have changed over the years: The Antique Christmas Lights Site
