Leon Herschtritt, West Berliners waving to relatives across the Berlin Wall, Christmas Day, 1961.
Conversation
December 16, 1960
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Toddlers awaiting adoption at the Homeless Children's Aid Society rehearse their Christmas party songs in England on December 1, 1934.
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Malick Sidibé, "Christmas Eve, Happy Club"; gelatin silver print [1963, printed 2003]
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Children display Christmas gifts at Ellis Island in the early 1900s
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Children from the Homeless Children's Adoption Home at Leytonstone, hauling their Christmas tree
Gerry Cranham, 1938
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And the great one:
Saul Leiter, Christmas, New York, 1950s
This jolly pair caught unexpectedly under the mistletoe in 1937.
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