Decoration Gallery

Hippy Bus at the Woodstock Music Festival 1969

Fans sitting on top of a painted bus at the Woodstock Music Festival, Bethel, New York, 15th-17th August 1969. The Festival was scheduled to end after "three days of peace and music" in upstate New York. The iconic event didn't stop going though, and it pushed on for an unscheduled fourth day.
(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA

Mitchell's Corn Palace, The World's Only Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota, USA. The card notes that this building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10, 000 in natural colored grains and grasses. The annual festival is held the last week in September and the building is open free the year around. It is the most outstanding exhibit of nature's wonderful colors blended into interesting designs and pictures by skilled decorators'. The Russian-style onion domes and Moorish minarets were added in 1937. Date: circa 1937

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

First Authenticated Christmas Tree - Strasbourg

Christmas Tree in History and Legend: The Earliest Authenticated Christmas Tree in Strasbourg (at this time in Germany). A merchant of Strasburg (a Mr Forbes) writes of the residents of the city setting up fir trees in their parlours on which to hang paper cut-outs, apples, wafers, sweets etc.. The tree is visible to passers-by out on the street, catching the particular attention of two young children, who look in to admire the decorations. Date: 1605

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