Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: Christmas gifts

Barbie, Margie, and a Silver Tree for Christmas, 1…

20 Dec 2013 6 8 1347
A Christmas photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park . Toys in the foreground that I was able to identify include a 1962 Ponytail Barbie Case, a 1962 Margie the Majorette Doll Craft Kit, and a Mickey Mouse Club Counting Jump Rope. Wikipedia reports that silver aluminum Christmas trees like the one in the photo were popular in the U.S. from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, when a silver tree "was used as a symbol of the over-commercialization of Christmas in the 1965 Peanuts holiday special, A Charlie Brown Christmas ."

Season's Greetings

Xmas 1946

09 Dec 2013 1 934
Evidently these partygoers have just exchanged gifts. The woman directly in the middle of the photo is holding a copy of How to Make Love , a circa 1930s booklet whose suggestive title promised more than its contents could actually deliver (it was innocuous enough that Archie McPhee sold a reprinted version).

Who Was That Masked Santa?

09 Dec 2013 3 4 1492
Stamped on back: "Hill Studio, 1415 Derry Street, Harrisburg, Pa." Handwritten on back: "Dec. 23, 1947." A puzzling photo of a masked Santa Claus (evidently a woman wearing a skirt) sitting next to a pile of wrapped presents and a Christmas tree. Newspapers are strewn about on the floor, and the walls in the background seem to be either water-stained or wet (could it be the inside of an unheated shed or trailer with condensation running down the walls?). The tips of what appear to be ironing boards surround Santa on both sides. Could this show early preparations for a gift distribution of some sort? Or has a downtrodden Santa taken up residence in a storage unit?

Tike on a Trike at a Tree

Facing the Ornaments for a Merry Christmas, 1949

20 Dec 2013 5 1253
"Merry Christmas, 1949. The Hassingers."

Merry Christmas from the Coast Motel

16 Dec 2013 1 896
"Coast Motel. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year."