Nostalgic xmas photos

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It's A Wonderful Life! Nostalgic photos reveal 100 years of Christmas (including Marilyn Monroe posing in festive stockings)

• FEMAIL picks its favourite black and white Christmas images, dating back to the 1900s
• Photos show the progression of the festive season - including what shopping was like in Holborn in 1936
• Include Hollywood stars including Marilyn Monroe and Bob Hope during Golden Age of showbiz

By Deni Kirkova for MailOnline

Published: 07:11 EST, 22 December 2014 | Updated: 12:20 EST, 22 December 2014

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  From lighting a real candle on the branch of an indoor Christmas tree, to a well-dressed family singing carols on a stairwell in the home, it seems Christmas has changed significantly over the years.
  
  This romantic collection of nostalgic black and white photos reveal there wasn't a beard bauble in sight as people from a bygone era celebrated the festive season.
  
  As well as images of shoppers on a not-so-crowded street in Holborn, London, the photos capture the Golden Age of Hollywood.
  
  From Bob Hope at the height of his career, to Marilyn Monroe posing seductively by a chimney in her stockings, the images reveal how the stars of Tinseltown celebrated Christmas in style.
  
  Here, Femail picks its favourite images that show an It's A Wonderful Life-style Christmas...
  
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  Multicultural: Diana Doris, a British actress, is seen in 1947 with a Christmas greeting written in French. Right, Marilyn Monroe posed in her stockings for this seductive 1951 photo. That year she was voted 'the present all GI's would like to find in their Christmas stocking'
  
  
  
  
  
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  A young woman with a gorgeous dress lighting real candles on a Christmas tree in 1910 - a practice left in the past
  
  
  
  
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Wonder why is that ^^^ woman looks so angry?

Looks like we have always dragged our pets ^^^ through the tinsel.


Some are weird, some charming.

 

[Mr. H.]

Dig the gams on those dames.