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CHRISTMAS EVE OVER THE YEARS
Is there anything as precious as children enjoying the magic of Santa?
Christmas Eve is such a wonderful time and is celebrated in so many ways.. enjoy the following selection from around Australia.. in no particular order..
Northern Territory Times and Gazette (Darwin, NT : 1873 - 1927), Friday 10 January 1908
National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4355491
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Jacky bringing home the Christmas mail from south, Northern Territory, ca. 1890 [picture] / RJA
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 6 January 1949, page 2
National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2784106
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 17 December 1959
National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103072634
Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Saturday 23 December 1911, page 20
National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28134036
Christmas 1897-1898
Talma 119 Swanston Street Melbourne and at Sydney
Out of copyright
Pioneer (Yorketown, SA : 1898 - 1954), Saturday 27 December 1913
National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199093821
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954), Friday 26 December 1947
National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56805351
1947-12-03, English, Article, Journal or magazine article edition:
A Christmas Gift Idea BLOTTER WITH WOOL EMBROIDERY (3 December 1947)
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1939
Mercury (Hobart, Tas : 1860-1954) Tuesday 26 Dec 1939
Photograph - Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park - Photo Lab Christmas trip to Lake St Clair 1947 https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/264623525
Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1954), Tuesday 21 December 1948, page 2
National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95711774
“Greeting card: a merry Christmas,” Monash Collections Online, accessed December 21, 2019, http://repository.monash.edu/items/show/33423
Christmas in the colonies, a Christmas dinner at the diggings / [Edward Roper].
Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wednesday 24 December 1941
National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8224422
John Martin's Christmas Pageant : Christmas pudding [B 69087/28]
Barb Tapscott dressed as a Christmas Pudding.
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Reproduction rights: State Library of South Australia
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Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.. and please spare a thought for all those who are missing loved ones, those who are battling ill health, disasters, loneliness and problems they don’t share.
We can give all of them the gift of a smile.. costs us nothing and lasts a lifetime..
Back in January!
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