Holidays
     
  Links to sources related to holidays Americans celebrate  
     
     
  Christmas
  1. 1900 Christmas Gift Book   (catalogue)
  2. A Trip to the Springs and a Ride Around Randolph   (written monologue)
  3. Merry Christmas to G.I. Joe   (painting)
  4. Christmas Cards sent to Charles & Ray Eames  
  5. Mrs. Fogarty's Christmas Cake   (song)
  6. It Was My Father's Custom: A Merry Christmas Song   (songsheet)
  7. Venid Pastores/Come, Shepherds   (Spanish song)
  8. Pastorak Orven Deznek/The Shepherds Are Rejoicing   (Hungarian song)
  9. Christmas Breakfast   (oral history)
  10. Santa Claus Hides in Your Phonograph   (audio story)
  11. TR Calls on Neighbors at Christmas   (video)
  12. Grandma and the Bad Boys: Preparing Christmas Pastry   (video)
 
     
     
  To find more primary sources, try the suggestions listed below.
  1. Search various LOC sites using keywords such as Christmas - nativity - Santa - reindeer
    LOC American Memory  |  Exhibitions  |  Prints & Photographs Catalogue
    Performing Arts Digital Library
  2. Review Today in History December 21 , December 24 , and December 25 , which also feature information about the winter solstice and Hanukkah
    (see a unique American Hanukkah lamp)  
  3. Look for information about Kwanzaa on Thomas (legislative records) and Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum  
 
     
     
  New Year
  1. Leonard Bernstein Family New Year's Card  
  2. Waiting for the Hour [Emancipation]: Dec. 31, 1862   (print)
  3. Blowing horns on Bleeker Street, New York   (photo)
  4. New Year Reception at the White House   (photo)
  5. The Holidays Are Over   (songsheet)
  6. The Old Year. 1877. The New Year. 1878.   (songsheet)
  7. Portuguese New Year's Songs  
  8. New Year's Eve. [The Century Jan. 1892]   (article)
  9. New Year's Eve: 1867 v. 1917   (cartoon)
  10. New Year Callers, 1952   (cartoon)
  11. Havana, New Year's Day, 1899   (video)
  12. "Vaudeville frolic" Gala Midnight Show New Year's Eve   (poster)
 
     
     
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July 4 -- Independence Day, Illinois : Federal Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1939], Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 		 
     
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