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The Saturday Evening Post, December 4 1948, U.S.A.: wonderfull grafics and a.o. Heinz Christmas recepies

The Saturday Evening Post, December 23, 1950, U.S.A.: Plymouth advertisement

Punch, Christmas number 1970, England: funnies

Mad, Janunary 1965, U.S.A.: comics with very good graphics, some of the "predictions" and below

"Letters from Santa Claus"

Nash's Christmas Number, December 1934, England: Mackintosh's ad,
stories by a.o. A.J. Cronin and W. Somerset Maugham

Nash's Christmas Number, December 1935, England: "The English Year" describing
"first the history of our festivities and then the light in which they appear,
in this time of anxiety and cynicism"

Nash's Christmas Number, December 1936, England: poem "Christmas Eve" by Clare Nicholl

Life, December 22, 1947, USA, included is an album Christmas Carols, painted by 7 American artists: "Good King Wenceslas" painting by Doris Lee

"O Little Town of Bethlehem" painting by Byron Thomas - "The First Nowell" painting by Lenard Kester

"Silent Night, Holy Night" painting by Raymond Breinin - "We Three Kings of Orient Are" painting by Gladys Rockmore Davis

"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" painting by Margaret Stark - "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" painting by Waldo Peirce

The backpage with "The Artists": a description of the paintings

The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1937:
cover: "Frost Scene" by Isack van Ostade (1621-1649);
"A Dream of Christmas Eve" signed "LR 1874" ( A.L. Richter, 1803-84)

The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1968:
cover: central panel Nativity triptich by Cornelius Engelbertsz;
"The Christmas Tree Story", Illustration by André Brennan

The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1957: cover: "The Young Musicians" by Jan Molenaer (1610?-68);
"Christmas customs as the old illuminators might have recorded them": I: Feasting and merry making; II: Carol singers dancing; III: Bringing home the evergreens; IV: The kissing bough

The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1958: cover: "The rest on the Flight into Egypt" by Filippo Lippi (1457-1504);
"The Christmas tree in History and Legend": I: Martin Luther's tree, about 1533; II: Strasburg, the earliest authentic record (1605); III: the Lady of Wittenberg and her children (1737); Iv: in Queen Caroline's household in the 1820s.

Le Sourire, 23 Décembre 1920, Paris, France: naughty but nice graphics

La Mode Pratique, 15 Décembre 1938, Paris, France: fashion, with a.o. instructions for making a creche

Le Petit Echo de la Mode, 22 Décembre 1935, Paris, France: fashion, with o.a. clothes for Christmas

Société Catholique "Patria", 1928, Belgium: charitable fair

Le cri de paris, 26 Décembre 1909, Paris:
"Noël! En voilà un qui n'est pas pour le désarmement!"
(Christmas! Here is one that is not for disarmament!)

Madame, Noël 1922, Paris, France: ladies magazine, how to make a Christmas tree with branches.

Madam, Noël 1925, Paris, France: recepies for Christmas and New Year

La Revue de Madam, Noël 1925, Paris, France: ladies magazine, tips Christmas presents

Nos Loisirs, Noël, 26 Déc. 1909, France:
"Marionnettes et Comédiens de Noël" (Christmas Marionettes and Comedians)

Paris Match, Noël 1952, France: "Children of all the countries of the world write for Christmas to “Bambino, Rome":
At midnight precisely, on Christmas Eve on the hill of the Capitole in Rome, the most extraordinary crib of the world
is illuminated. Each year, since four hundred years, thousands of children from all over the city, wait for the holy hour in the church of Ara Cœli.

La Vie Heureuse, Noël 1910, France: music "Entre le Boeuf et l'Ane Gris" (between the ox and the gray donkey).

Le Patriote Illustré, 23 Décembre 1934, Belgium: Adoration of the Shepherds from the Musée des Crèches in Napels; Christmas in the modern folk art; a very amusing ad

Le Patriote Illustré, 25 Décembre 1938, Belgium: Christmas customs:
Küssnacht: The night before Christmas, on the rhythm of old songs, a parade of people, dressed up with giant miters, inspired by Saint Nicolas, distributor of gifts,
and Christmas, go through the streets of Küssnacht, Switzerland.
Hungary: In villages, young girls go from door to door, singing old Christmas carols, and they themselves play all the characters: St. Joseph, shepherds, Wise Men. .

Le Patriote Illustré, Noël 1951, Belgium: Walt Disney,
Alice in Wonderland, continued inside - Nativity in a box, Venetian, 18th c.

Le Patriote Illustré, Noël 1960

REX Noël 1935, Belgium, Les Editions de Rex, founded in 1934 by Leon Degrelle:
game "Je suis un évadé" (I am an escapee), based on "Snakes and Ladders".
Six prisoners sent by the Soviets to Siberia and the one who arrived first at home,
middle circle with Christmas tree, has won the game

Marie*Claire, Décembre 1954, Paris: cover signed "R. Keilo" ?; how to make table decorations,
and a list of succulent specialties by province

Le Globe Illustré, 26 Décembre 1886, Bruxelles: engravings:
"La Noël dans le Monde, à Londres" (Christmas in the World, in London), unsigned
"La Noël dans la Chaumière" (Christmas in the cottage), the rich bringing presents to the poor, signed:
and

L'Illustration Européenne,
21 Décembre 1890, Bruxelles:
engraving, "Rêve de Noël (Christmas dream), signed:

Noel 1904, La Revue Théatrale, Paris: front cover signed ; "Les Noëls Musicaux" (musical Christmas), with ref. to the book "La Marche à l'Etoile" in this collection, "Le Boudin de Noël" a gastranomique story, design by Lucien Métivet (1863-1930); "Noëls d'Alsace" song based on "Noël" by Coraer (?), 1625, and a decorated Christmas tree

La Vie Illustrée, Noël 26 Décembre 1902 , Paris:
Engraving "La Dinde de Nöel" (Christmas turkey) signed Ch. Baude (Charles,1853-1935)
"5e Exposition du Cycle et de l'Automobiles", with the Belgian stand "Minverve"

Je sais tout-Noël, 15 Novembre 1908, France:
cover Queen Marie Leczinska by Nattier

Je sais tout Noël 1913, France

L'Eventail, Noël 1929, Bruxelles:
"La Belgique de 1830",
the Belgian foundation in 1830

Le Rire Rouge, Edition de Guerre (war edition) , 30 Décembre 1916, Paris:
cover "Les Martyrs de l'Arrière" (Martyrs of the back = at home) There are mnay and they pray, at Christmas, for those who are fighting....; Christmas 1916, Christ Child in the chimney: "Do not worry about your nice white robe, little Jesus; there are no coal."

Panorama, 24 Dec.1955, Spaarnestad, Haarlem, The Netherlands: article about Anna Frank "Er was voor hen geen plaats meer" (there was no place for them),
photo of authentic page from her diary, the pictures are from the packages she received

Panorama 23-29 December 1958;
N.V. Tijdschriften Uitgevers Mij.
Antwerpen, Belgium

Zondagsvriend, 20 December 1951, Belgium: "Kerststalletje in Napolitaanse Stijl" (Manger in Neapolitan style) in the church of St.Cosmas and Damian in Napels, described in Sacred Architecture : "A visit to the basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian at Christmastime is most worthwhile. Adjacent to the basilica’s cloister is a famous Neapolitan presepio, a monumental eighteenth-century nativity scene with exquisitely carved figurines."

Patria Magazine, Jan. 1936, Belgium: "Het Kerstfeest van kleine Shirley (the Christmas Party of little Shirley (Temple)), and which is fun an illustration by my father-in-law

Ons Land, Christmas number 1923, Belgium: "Kerstmis in de Schilderkunst"
(Christmas in Painting)

Ons Land, Christmas number 1924, Belgium: song "Kerstlied aan mijn vader "
(Christmas song for my father)

Ons Land, Christmas number 1925, Belgium: Christmas trees in Germany and Norway, Christmas cakes from 1670 from the National Germanic Museum in Nürnberg

Ons Land, Christmas number 1926, Belgium: "Kerstgebruiken (Christmas traditions)

Ons Land, Kerstnummer 1927 (Christmas number), Belgium: two 19th cent. German engravings both titled "Het kerstfeest in den goeden ouden tijd" (Christmas in the good olden times) (also shown in Ons Volk 1947, pg. 1228).

Ons Land, Kerstnummer 1938 (Christmas number), Belgium:
"Kerstrijm" (Christmas Rhyme)

Ons Land, Kerstnummer 1939 (Christmas number), Belgium:
"Kerstvizioen" (Christmas Vision)

De Stad Antwerpen, 21 December 1934, Belgium:
"Kinderen rond de Kerstboom" (Children around the Christmas tree)

De Stad, 23 December 1938, Belgium:
"Een poppenspel van Kerstmis" ( A Christmas puppet show)

Ons Volk (Our People), Christmas Number 1947, Brussels: making a manger; history of the Christmas tree with two 19th cent. German engravings (see "Ons Land" 1927);
custom "Pangrond in Schultz", "Hellewagen" or Danish " " or German " "

Motorama, publ. by General Motors Continental,
nr. 29 - January 1962: still shows Santa behind the car !

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De Prins, Christmas number 1927, The Netherlands:
front signed "Muratti" and the back "B.(Bernardina) Midderigh-Bokhorst" (1880-1972); strange Christmas scene in Vienna

Frankfurter Landsturm, Kriegsnummer Weihnachten 1914 (War Number Christmas 1914), printed in Saint-Quentin (France):
poem "Weihnachten im Feindesland!" ("Christmas in Enemy Territory"), but whose fault was that; certainly not ours!


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A variety of magazines, often special Christmas editions, acquired for their information on Christmas traditions and lifestyle of the period. The women's and family magazines have Christmas recepies, instructions and ideas for making ornaments, presents and home decorations, fashion of the period, children's corner, Christmas stories, ....., and not to forget some have lovely advertisements. The more religeous related magazines, have, besides some of the Christmas related information, mostly articles and pictures on the manger, birth of Christ, Christmas in other countries, etc.
English
The Saturday Evening Post, December 4 1948, U.S.A.: wonderfull grafics and a.o. Heinz Christmas recepies
The Saturday Evening Post, December 23, 1950, U.S.A.: Plymouth advertisement		Punch, Christmas number 1970, England: funnies
Mad, Janunary 1965, U.S.A.: comics with very good graphics, some of the "predictions" and below
"Letters from Santa Claus"
Nash's Christmas Number, December 1934, England: Mackintosh's ad, stories by a.o. A.J. Cronin and W. Somerset Maugham		Nash's Christmas Number, December 1935, England: "The English Year" describing "first the history of our festivities and then the light in which they appear, in this time of anxiety and cynicism"
Nash's Christmas Number, December 1936, England: poem "Christmas Eve" by Clare Nicholl
Life, December 22, 1947, USA, included is an album Christmas Carols, painted by 7 American artists: "Good King Wenceslas" painting by Doris Lee
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" painting by Byron Thomas - "The First Nowell" painting by Lenard Kester
"Silent Night, Holy Night" painting by Raymond Breinin - "We Three Kings of Orient Are" painting by Gladys Rockmore Davis
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" painting by Margaret Stark - "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" painting by Waldo Peirce
The backpage with "The Artists": a description of the paintings
The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1937: cover: "Frost Scene" by Isack van Ostade (1621-1649); "A Dream of Christmas Eve" signed "LR 1874" ( A.L. Richter, 1803-84)		The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1968: cover: central panel Nativity triptich by Cornelius Engelbertsz; "The Christmas Tree Story", Illustration by André Brennan
The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1957: cover: "The Young Musicians" by Jan Molenaer (1610?-68); "Christmas customs as the old illuminators might have recorded them": I: Feasting and merry making; II: Carol singers dancing; III: Bringing home the evergreens; IV: The kissing bough
The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1958: cover: "The rest on the Flight into Egypt" by Filippo Lippi (1457-1504); "The Christmas tree in History and Legend": I: Martin Luther's tree, about 1533; II: Strasburg, the earliest authentic record (1605); III: the Lady of Wittenberg and her children (1737); Iv: in Queen Caroline's household in the 1820s.



French
Le Sourire, 23 Décembre 1920, Paris, France: naughty but nice graphics		La Mode Pratique, 15 Décembre 1938, Paris, France: fashion, with a.o. instructions for making a creche
Le Petit Echo de la Mode, 22 Décembre 1935, Paris, France: fashion, with o.a. clothes for Christmas			Société Catholique "Patria", 1928, Belgium: charitable fair
Le cri de paris, 26 Décembre 1909, Paris: "Noël! En voilà un qui n'est pas pour le désarmement!" (Christmas! Here is one that is not for disarmament!)	Madame, Noël 1922, Paris, France: ladies magazine, how to make a Christmas tree with branches.
Madam, Noël 1925, Paris, France: recepies for Christmas and New Year		La Revue de Madam, Noël 1925, Paris, France: ladies magazine, tips Christmas presents
Nos Loisirs, Noël, 26 Déc. 1909, France: "Marionnettes et Comédiens de Noël" (Christmas Marionettes and Comedians)		Paris Match, Noël 1952, France: "Children of all the countries of the world write for Christmas to “Bambino, Rome": At midnight precisely, on Christmas Eve on the hill of the Capitole in Rome, the most extraordinary crib of the world is illuminated. Each year, since four hundred years, thousands of children from all over the city, wait for the holy hour in the church of Ara Cœli.
Vie Heureuse 1909
La Vie Heureuse, Noël 1910, France: music "Entre le Boeuf et l'Ane Gris" (between the ox and the gray donkey).
Le Patriote Illustré, 23 Décembre 1934, Belgium: Adoration of the Shepherds from the Musée des Crèches in Napels; Christmas in the modern folk art; a very amusing ad
Le Patriote Illustré, 25 Décembre 1938, Belgium: Christmas customs: Küssnacht: The night before Christmas, on the rhythm of old songs, a parade of people, dressed up with giant miters, inspired by Saint Nicolas, distributor of gifts, and Christmas, go through the streets of Küssnacht, Switzerland. Hungary: In villages, young girls go from door to door, singing old Christmas carols, and they themselves play all the characters: St. Joseph, shepherds, Wise Men. .
Le Patriote Illustré, Noël 1951, Belgium: Walt Disney, Alice in Wonderland, continued inside - Nativity in a box, Venetian, 18th c.		Le Patriote Illustré, Noël 1960
REX Noël 1935, Belgium, Les Editions de Rex, founded in 1934 by Leon Degrelle: game "Je suis un évadé" (I am an escapee), based on "Snakes and Ladders". Six prisoners sent by the Soviets to Siberia and the one who arrived first at home, middle circle with Christmas tree, has won the game		Marie*Claire, Décembre 1954, Paris: cover signed "R. Keilo" ?; how to make table decorations, and a list of succulent specialties by province
Le Globe Illustré, 26 Décembre 1886, Bruxelles: engravings: "La Noël dans le Monde, à Londres" (Christmas in the World, in London), unsigned "La Noël dans la Chaumière" (Christmas in the cottage), the rich bringing presents to the poor, signed: and			L'Illustration Européenne, 21 Décembre 1890, Bruxelles: engraving, "Rêve de Noël (Christmas dream), signed:
Noel 1904, La Revue Théatrale, Paris: front cover signed ; "Les Noëls Musicaux" (musical Christmas), with ref. to the book "La Marche à l'Etoile" in this collection, "Le Boudin de Noël" a gastranomique story, design by Lucien Métivet (1863-1930); "Noëls d'Alsace" song based on "Noël" by Coraer (?), 1625, and a decorated Christmas tree
La Vie Illustrée, Noël 26 Décembre 1902 , Paris: Engraving "La Dinde de Nöel" (Christmas turkey) signed Ch. Baude (Charles,1853-1935) "5e Exposition du Cycle et de l'Automobiles", with the Belgian stand "Minverve"		Je sais tout-Noël, 15 Novembre 1908, France: cover Queen Marie Leczinska by Nattier	Je sais tout Noël 1913, France
L'Eventail, Noël 1929, Bruxelles: "La Belgique de 1830", the Belgian foundation in 1830	Le Rire Rouge, Edition de Guerre (war edition) , 30 Décembre 1916, Paris: cover "Les Martyrs de l'Arrière" (Martyrs of the back = at home) There are mnay and they pray, at Christmas, for those who are fighting....; Christmas 1916, Christ Child in the chimney: "Do not worry about your nice white robe, little Jesus; there are no coal."


Dutch
Panorama, 24 Dec.1955, Spaarnestad, Haarlem, The Netherlands: article about Anna Frank "Er was voor hen geen plaats meer" (there was no place for them), photo of authentic page from her diary, the pictures are from the packages she received			Panorama 23-29 December 1958; N.V. Tijdschriften Uitgevers Mij. Antwerpen, Belgium
Zondagsvriend, 20 December 1951, Belgium: "Kerststalletje in Napolitaanse Stijl" (Manger in Neapolitan style) in the church of St.Cosmas and Damian in Napels, described in Sacred Architecture : "A visit to the basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian at Christmastime is most worthwhile. Adjacent to the basilica’s cloister is a famous Neapolitan presepio, a monumental eighteenth-century nativity scene with exquisitely carved figurines."
Patria Magazine, Jan. 1936, Belgium: "Het Kerstfeest van kleine Shirley (the Christmas Party of little Shirley (Temple)), and which is fun an illustration by my father-in-law
Ons Land, Christmas number 1923, Belgium: "Kerstmis in de Schilderkunst" (Christmas in Painting)		Ons Land, Christmas number 1924, Belgium: song "Kerstlied aan mijn vader " (Christmas song for my father)
Ons Land, Christmas number 1925, Belgium: Christmas trees in Germany and Norway, Christmas cakes from 1670 from the National Germanic Museum in Nürnberg
Ons Land, Christmas number 1926, Belgium: "Kerstgebruiken (Christmas traditions)
Ons Land, Kerstnummer 1927 (Christmas number), Belgium: two 19th cent. German engravings both titled "Het kerstfeest in den goeden ouden tijd" (Christmas in the good olden times) (also shown in Ons Volk 1947, pg. 1228).
Ons Land, Kerstnummer 1938 (Christmas number), Belgium: "Kerstrijm" (Christmas Rhyme)		Ons Land, Kerstnummer 1939 (Christmas number), Belgium: "Kerstvizioen" (Christmas Vision)
De Stad Antwerpen, 21 December 1934, Belgium: "Kinderen rond de Kerstboom" (Children around the Christmas tree)		De Stad, 23 December 1938, Belgium: "Een poppenspel van Kerstmis" ( A Christmas puppet show)
Ons Volk (Our People), Christmas Number 1947, Brussels: making a manger; history of the Christmas tree with two 19th cent. German engravings (see "Ons Land" 1927); custom "Pangrond in Schultz", "Hellewagen" or Danish " " or German " "
Motorama, publ. by General Motors Continental, nr. 29 - January 1962: still shows Santa behind the car !	s De Prins, Christmas number 1927, The Netherlands: front signed "Muratti" and the back "B.(Bernardina) Midderigh-Bokhorst" (1880-1972); strange Christmas scene in Vienna


German
Frankfurter Landsturm, Kriegsnummer Weihnachten 1914 (War Number Christmas 1914), printed in Saint-Quentin (France): poem "Weihnachten im Feindesland!" ("Christmas in Enemy Territory"), but whose fault was that; certainly not ours!