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Thousands of travelers, most of them men in uniform, pack Pennsylvania Station, waiting for trains to take them home for the holidays, December 22, 1942. Railroads announced that record-breaking crowds were on the move, causing as much as eight-hour delays.
Photo: NY Daily News
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My collection of rats and mice, some giant, some playing while the cat's away.
Women of the Emergency Unemployment Committee make sandwiches for needy children, December 22, 1931. Teachers of the Bureau of Education contributed $1,000,000 (more than $20 million in today's currency) in 1931 towards clothing and feeding needy schoolchildren. Trucks took the food and clothing from a central location to various schools in the city.
Photo: Associated Press
Nothing like the last minute: customers lined up at the Central Post Office on 8th Avenue to mail their packages, December 22, 1927.
Photo: Underwood Archives via Fine Art America
A horse and carriage advertising Franklin Simon passes in front of the more upscale department store, Saks Fifth Avenue, December 22, 1958.
Top photo: Associated Press via WHNT Bottom photo: Morse Collection/Gado/Getty Images
A view from the bridge, but not the one Arthur Miller meant: a worker takes in the view from the New York tower of the George Washington Bridge, December 22, 1936.
Photo: Jack Rosenzweig via NYC Municipal Archives
The funeral of Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor and a major figure in American labor history, December 22, 1924. The crowd watches as pallbearers carry the flag-draped coffin down the street.
Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America
Dec. 22 - Part 2
Peter, Paul and Mary did their level best to reclaim 'Christmas is Coming' as a creepy, Halloween-y song rather than a carol, but it still ended up on their Christmas/holiday albums anyway. Here they are performing their edgy, harmonically intricate version of the extended nursery rhyme in France in 1965.
