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 Here's my Sepia Saturday holiday post. Vintage cards from the solemn to the ridiculous. Jolly? To see more Sepia Saturday photos, click here .  My favorite

O, Holy Night! Bono and the Edge It Came Upon a Midnight Clear A classic retelling of the Christmas Story.

  Bain News Service, Publisher.  Christmas Shoppers . , ca. 1910. [Between and Ca. 1915] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014689326/. I missed Sepia Saturday but thought I'd commemorate Christmas shopping of days gone by. To see some Sepia Saturday posts, click here .   O'Halloran, Thomas J, and Warren K Leffler, photographer.  Retail Christmas Story Shoppers . , 1974. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019631433/. Harris & Ewing, photographer.  NO ELEPHANT TOYS FOR FIRST LADY. MRS. ROOSEVELT, ON A CHRISTMAS SHOPPING TOUR, HAD A HARD TIME CONVINCING SANTA CLAUS THAT SHE DID NOT WANT A TOY ELEPHANT, A SYMBOL OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. SHE IS SHOWN HERE INSPECTING AN ASSORTMENT OF TOYS AT A WASHINGTON, D.C. DEPARTMENT STORE FRIDAY . United States Washington D.C. District of Columbia Washington D.C, 1934. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016883487/.

 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas For this week's Sepia Saturday I thought I'd share photos from my visit to Old World Wisconsin. Last week a friend and I visited this historic site in Eagle, Wisconsin to see it's Christmas festivities. Old World Wisconsin is a place where they've gathered and restored buildings from the 19th Century. In December on the weekend's they're open to show visitors how Christmas was celebrated over 100 years ago. In the town's church, which was the first Catholic church in Milwaukee, visitors could sing carols. The performers read a Christmas passage from a Little House on the Prairie book. They also brought kids up from the audience and they read "The Night Before Christmas." Ready for Christmas morning. This room is set up for a cobweb party. Each guest has a color of string and they have to unravel the string to get to their Christmas gift. I wonder what other kinds of parties they had back then. This l...