Christmas Through the Decades

By Robert Brenner

Book Overview

From the first Christmas celebrations in Colonial America to Christmas in the 1990s, this book explores in detail holiday preparations, tree traditions, ornaments, decorations, and lights. Through over 500 color photographs illustrating over 3,000 objects, catalog reprints, and historical photographs, it documents Christmas history and decade by decade. This marvelous and comprehensive study will be an invaluable aid to collectors, museum curators, and all Christmas enthusiasts, helping them to better understand how the popular holiday evolved. An index references both the text and the photographs. There is a newly revised price guide that includes a value for each item shown in the book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887405452
• ISBN13: 9780887405457
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book but a little out dated

I do not have this book personally, I borrowed one from a friend and would love to have one of my own but it really needs to be updated. 1993 is a long time ago in the antique world, I guess what I would really like to know, is a new one coming out soon