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Where Christmas Traditions Come From & How to Talk With Children

Something You Should Know

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Christmas and the Industrial Revolution in the United States

Christmas wasn't a major gift-giving holiday until there were more goods to sell. The invention of the postage stamp coincided with the creation of the first Christmas card. In 1912, Houghton Mifflin did an illustrated version of Santa Claus that was about three feet tall. Norman Rockwell and J.C. Lee and Decker were doing covers for the Saturday evening post in 1920s.

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