Christmas, 1940-1959
Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764318993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains a guide with prices for Christmas ornaments made from 1940 through 1959.
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Christmas, 1940-1959
Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764326721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This in-depth review of Christmas history and traditions in the United States covers a period that many Americans remember well. See Christmas decorating customs, electric lighting innovations, and tree decorations, all of which changed drastically as a result of World War II. This period of Christmas history witnessed the advent of machine-produced glass ornaments, bubble lights, Italian miniature lights, Matchless Stars, and a proliferation of decorations produced in Japan, Europe, and the United States. Included are many historical photos, color pictures of decorations from each decade, a detailed text, and updated value guide.
Christmas Past
Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780764301728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780887405457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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!
Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959
Author: Eugenia Kaledin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2000-09-30
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0313090416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examine the everyday lives of ordinary Americans from the 1940s and 1950s and discover how very different the two decades were. World War II affected Americans and the way they behaved, not only in the 1940s, but also in the years that followed when the depression that preceded the war was replaced with an economic boom. Explore how women's roles and lives changed during these two very distinct decades, how politics and political decisions impacted all walks of life, and what the advent of growing technology, much of it developed during the war, meant to the general population. What was it like to be a woman suddenly earning her own money while men were off fighting? How did children and teenagers contribute to the war effort? How did housing change in postwar America? What pastimes were popular during these two decades and how did they reflect the times? These questions and others are explored in detail, encouraging students, teachers, and interested readers to recognize the tremendous shift in society between the war years and the atomic age that immediately followed. This text presents the 1940s as a time of social problems that existed alongside community commitment to the war, while the 1950s are presented as a time when exciting social change such as the beginning of the civil rights movement and the building of Levittowns occurred. After the war ordinary people began to question long-accepted ideas. The exploration of these everyday details provides a rich look at two very important decades in our country's history.
Christmas with Ed Sullivan
Author: Ed Sullivan
Publisher:
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781258182144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contributors Include Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Pearl Buck, Walter Cronkite, Clark Gable And Many Others.
Immigrants, Ornaments and Legacies
Author: Jody L. Pritzl
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05-29
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781097169658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
Christmas Revisited
Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Published: 2004-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764319068
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christmas decorations, advertising, trade cards, post cards, toys, games, and puzzles, are among the areas of collecting interest explored. With over 350 color photographs as well as 50 black and white illustrations, this book is an authoritative guide to the entire field of Christmas collecting. Over 1000 Christmas items shown in color photos with historical descriptions and updated values.
Midcentury Christmas: Holiday Fads, Fancies, and Fun from 1945 to 1970
Author: Sarah Archer
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1581575386
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
A 1940 Christmas
Author: Caroline Molyneux
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 1477228993
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