The Christmas display was blazing at Rockefeller Center on December 20, 1952.
Photo: Vintage Everyday

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The Christmas display was blazing at Rockefeller Center on December 20, 1952.
Photo: Vintage Everyday
Kids with a sled watch ducks feeding on the ice-hemmed lake at 59th Street in Central Park, December 20, 1948. The morning after the 19.5-inch snowstorm, a small area of the lake remained unfrozen despite the temperature being 28 degrees Fahrenheit.
Photo: JDC for the Associated Press
Governor-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to 150 children at the Beekman Street Hospital, December 20, 1928. He wasn't as wary of being photographed with his leg braces as he was when he became president.
Photo: Associated Press
There was a newspaper strike during the Christmas shopping season in 1958, so retailers had to be creative about their advertising. Here, model Diane Milne sits in the window of Stern's (one of the many department stores that have since vanished) and announces, via blackboard, news of a shoe sale, December 20, 1958.
Photo: Harry Harris for the AP