Christmas 1960 to the Present

Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764322457
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Christmas celebrations of the past forty years are shown through historical photographs, catalogue pages, and over 530 photographs of artificial and real trees, Christmas ornaments, interior and exterior lights, candy containers, cards, tinsel garlands, and cheerful holiday figurines. Innovations in Christmas ornamentation, lighting, and display are presented -- including artificial trees of the 1960s, country-style ornaments of the 1970s, 1980s chaser lights, and sophisticated 1990s European glass ornaments. Updated values are provided in the captions. With this wonderful book to inspire your search, you can carry the spirit of Christmas with you all year 'round!

Christmas Past

Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764301728
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
The historical importance, makers, materials, and rarity of Christmas trees, decorations, and ornaments of all kinds are discussed in detail, including glass ornaments, all types of lighting from candles to electricity, cotton and paper ornaments, and Dresdens. All the major manufacturers are identified and much personal information is given about the families that developed the Christmas ornament industry into big business internationally. Christmas Past includes beautiful colour pictures of extremely rare, exquisite glass balls and figurals and early electric lamps.

Christmas Through the Decades

Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780887405457
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
A chronological illustrated history of how people decorated and celebrated for Christmas. Many antique ornaments from German origins project various customs. Includes newly revised price guide!

Christmas Ornaments

Author: Margaret Schiffer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780904568608
Category : Christmas decorations
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

Christmas Ornaments, Lights, and Decorations

Author: George Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891453352
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Over 750 full-color photos featuring thousands of items. Chapters include storage, repairing, histories, and much more. Items photographed have interesting facts and values listed for the Christmas enthusiast.

The Glass Christmas Ornament, Old & New

Author: Maggie Rogers
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 9780917304071
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description

Christmas Collectibles

Author: Margaret Whitmyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891453376
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Donated.

Poems and Sonnets

Author: G. B. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description

Midcentury Christmas: Holiday Fads, Fancies, and Fun from 1945 to 1970

Author: Sarah Archer
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581575386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
A celebration of Christmas in the 1950s and '60s Midcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. Every kid on the block had to have the latest cool toy, be it an Easy Bake Oven for pretend baking, a rocket ship for pretend space travel, or a Slinky, just because. At Christmastime, postwar America's dreams and desires were on full display, from shopping mall Santas to shiny aluminum Christmas trees, from the Grinch to Charlie Brown's beloved spindly Christmas tree. Now design maven Sarah Archer tells the story of how Christmastime in America rocketed from the Victorian period into Space Age, thanks to the new technologies and unprecedented prosperity that shaped the era. The book will feature iconic favorites of that time, including: • A visual feast of Christmastime eats and recipes, from magazines and food and appliance makers • Christmas cards from artists and designers of the era, featuring Henry Dreyfuss, Charles & Ray Eames, and Alexander Girard • Vintage how-to templates and instructions for holiday decor from Good Housekeeping and the 1960's craft craze • Advice from Popular Mechanics on how to glamorize your holiday dining table • Decorating advice for your new Aluminum Christmas Tree from ALCOA (the Aluminum Company of America) • The first American-made glass ornaments from Corning Glassworks Midcentury Christmas is sure to be on everyone’s most-wanted lists.

Immigrants, Ornaments and Legacies

Author: Jody L. Pritzl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781097169658
Category : Christmas tree ornaments
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
"Immigrants, Ornaments and Legacies" tells the stories of the companies who created 20th century Christmas tree decorations. The Shiny Brite(tm) story of Max Eckardt and Sons is chronicled along with rival firms that competed to win the key customers of Woolworth's and Sears. Bernhard Wilmsen was one of the first Christmas vendors to Woolworth's and continued to be for decades. George Franke emigrated from Germany to America at the time of the U.S. Civil War and employed hundreds of people in Baltimore, Maryland. National Tinsel Manufacturing in Manitowoc, Wisconsin would be a recognized Christmas industry leader until a 1991 merger worth $90 million. Before millions of Christmas bulbs were manufactured and sold in America, thousands were imported by Woolworth's and Sears. Beginning as a family business in Lauscha, Germany many husbands, wives and children hand crafted glass ornaments. As early German immigrants came to the United States they evolved the industry with inventions and patents. Survival and prosperity were never guaranteed as the companies struggled during precarious times of tariffs, trade wars and world wars. If not for Corning Glass Works inventing the means to make 80 million glass bulbs a year, the modern era of Christmas tree decorations would have stopped with German blockades and boycotts. With rich details using photographs and statistics, the industry of American glass bulb Christmas ornaments is documented from the 1800's to the 1960's. In their own words, family descendants of ornament makers tell their favorite memories of being surrounded by Christmas all year long and their special holiday traditions that live on today. "Immigrants, Ornaments and Legacies" is a family centered story of decades of Christmas tree decorations that are highly collectible today. An ornament identification section is included to help collectors date their precious Shiny Brite(tm) and George Franke ornaments passed down lovingly from generation to generation.