Ho ho ho: Guide to Papergreat's Christmas and holiday posts

It's December, so it's officially time to put up the Christmas tree, put Burl Ives and Band Aid into your CD rotation and roast some chestnuts in your fireplace. Here, for your browsing pleasure in between visits to online retailers, is a complete directory of previous Papergreat Christmas- and holiday-themed posts. I'll be decking the blog's walls with new posts almost every day this month, so this directory will continue to grow. (Last update: November 30, 2014)

Postcards

• A merry Christmastide to you, Marguerite E. DeWitt
• God Jul! A vintage Scandinavian postcard
• Manger scene at St. Mary's Episcopal School for Indian Girls in South Dakota
• Sami girl and a reindeer
• The Singing Postcard by Phonoscope ("White Christmas")
• Adams County, Pennsylvania, Christmas postcard from 1916
• Wishing Thoma a Merry Christmas in 1913
• 1915 post-Christmas postcard: "Many thanks for the stationery"
• 1960s Russian С Новым годом postcard ("Happy New Year!")
• Christmas postcard from Raphael Tuck & Sons
• Vintage Christmas postcard, plus the famed Otto Christmas Cats
• Amusing Sinterklaas postcard from The Netherlands
• Christmas-themed QSL card from Appleton, Wisconsin

Greeting cards

• Vintage Christmas card from Father: "Bright Days Always"
• Cozy vintage Christmas card decked out in greens and reds
• The Cloud family and Frankford Memorial Methodist Church
• Long-ago holiday greetings from Edna Belle Curtin
• "Hoping ... you will pass this way and make me a visit"
• Season's greetings from Mr. and Mrs. William C. Spencer
• Old Christmas card (and more) inside 1890's "Triumphant Songs"
• Awkward family Christmas card idea from the past
• Christmas remembrances card featuring Strasbourg Cathedral
• Small Christmas card from long ago
• Colorful card from 1920s (includes bonus pictures of Yours Truly)
• "Accept my Christmas Greetings" — a badly damaged old card
• Vintage Christmas card from Hawthorne-Sommerfield
• Cheerful Card Company can help you earn extra money
• Edward Drosback's 1932 Christmas card to John Bryant
• Colonel McCormick from Cantigny wishes you Merry Christmas
• Old-style illustration of a boy carrying a Christmas tree
• Vintage punny card: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
• A pair of beautifully illustrated vintage greeting cards

Recipes

• Peter Pan recipe for peanut butter cookies
• Christmas recipes from The Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library
• Your gas company wants to share some holiday recipes with you
• Five holiday recipes from your friendly neighborhood gas company
• Betty Crocker shares her steamed holiday pudding recipe
• Christmas recipes and crafts from a half-century ago

Books and magazines

• 12 toys Mattel wanted you to buy for your kids in 1967
• Santa on cover of the December 1949 issue of Model Railroader
• Santa-themed fun book from the York (Pa.) Mall (circa 1971)
• Macmillan Reader presents a very 1950s in suburbia Christmas
• Gorgeous bit of penmanship in Christmas 1909 inscription
• Christmas recipes and crafts from a half-century ago
• Two Christmas-themed 19th century tales by Mrs. W.J. Hays
• A collection of "The Night Before Christmas" covers
• "Treasure Chest of Christmas Songs and Carols"
• 1886 Christmas gift inscription to Myrtle H. Gilkeson
• "Beautiful Christmas tree" illustration from 1903 textbook
• Christmas-themed cover of the December 1979 issue of Cricket
• Inscription from Grandma Burbank inside "Carl Bartlett"

Fashion and decorations

• Family Circle's "Most Beautiful Christmas Tree" of 1981
• The Weed Christmas Tree
• A handy Christmas cape that doubles as a tree skirt

Miscellaneous merriment

• Holiday hanky from Peoples Laundry & Dry Cleaning of York, Pennsylvania
• Letter: Summing up Christmas 101 years ago in Mason City, Nebraska
• 1975 "Merry Christmas!" U.S. postage stamp
• "Carols for Christmas," a vintage pamphlet from The Prudential
• Five awesome Christmas gift tags
• Hurry and get this old-fashioned ice skating party for just $1
• Some vintage board games you probably won't get for Christmas
• An assortment of ephemera, including schlumbergera truncata
• Crīstesmæsse 2012
• Festive Christmas matchbook from D.F. Stauffer Biscuit Co.
• The Christmas Baby (religious song card from December 1937)
• See what Loretta is getting on someone's forgotten list of presents
• Kids Say the Darndest Things, Holiday Edition
• Santa Claus just told him he's not getting a Red Ryder BB Gun
• Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914
• The American Gas Association's holiday lineup for 1971-72
• Vintage vernacular photograph of a boy with Christmas presents