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Christmas and Holiday Celebrations (1940-1975)

The deepest seam in the archive: 37,000+ holiday clips from 1940 to 1975. Kids sprinting to the tree, stockings emptied onto the rug, Thanksgiving tables, Easter lawns, and thirty-five years of ornament and wrapping-paper fashion, every reel dated to its year.

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Focus: United States | 1940–1975

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