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Location: Burleigh Heads, Queensland

Description: Esplanade at Burleigh, Queensland, Christmas 1932. The Esplanade at Burleigh Heads crowded with tents and cars during Christmas holidays, 1932. Tents have been erected along the road and on the beach, turning the Esplanade in to a camping site.

View this page at the State Library of Queensland hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/77111

Group of young men camping at Sandgate over Christmas, 1904

• Location: Sandgate, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Description: Photograph includes: G. Webb, R. Buchanan, R. Helen?, P. Bertwistle, ? Johnson.
• View image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/125513

Sandgate is a coastal suburb in Brisbane, Australia, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of the Brisbane central business district. The town became a popular escape for the people of Brisbane in the early 20th century. – Wikipedia

Dec. 7th 1918
Dear Sister,
I am well and hope you are the same.  Well I think I will soon be over.  I suppose you have pretty cold weather by this time.
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

Springfield College Archives and Special Collections – Cliff Smith YMCA Postcard Collection. www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6w929b501

• Keep Smiling – 1918 – In Ardus Fidelis
• Outside of a Christmas Card from the Royal Army Medical Corps at No. 11 General Hospital – a part of the British Expeditionary Force in Italy, 1918.
• National Library of Ireland

There was one General and two Stationary Hospitals at Genoa. The first in a large hotel, the others in schools. Two of them already had patients and the other was being put in order. As there was no heating in the hotel, the building was intensely cold; it was, however, a very fine hotel with a marble staircase and beautiful baths, though at the time the baths were of little use, as there was no hot water. In the schools were some stoves which the patients thoroughly enjoyed. Later on we had an Infectious Hospital at Genoa, also a very nice hostel for sisters coming from the United Kingdom or moving about the country. – Nursing with the Italian Expeditionary Force

Nah – Pooh! is from a popular World War I song, Good-bye-ee!

Chorus

Good-bye-ee! good-bye-ee!
Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee.
Tho’ it’s hard to part I know,
I’ll be tickled to death to go.
Don’t cry-ee! don’t sigh-ee!
There’s a silver lining in the sky-ee.
Bonsoir old thing, cheerio! chin chin!
Nah-poo! Toodle-oo!
Good-bye-ee!

A Merry Christmas – May you be as happy as kittens – Victorian Christmas Card – Nova Scotia Archives

This is a rather odd Victorian Christmas Card from the Nova Scotia Archives.  The boy on the left appears to have fallen through the ice and is soaked, while the other two children, both with skates, may be asking about ice conditions, perhaps?

Merry Christmas – Boat Christmas  – Santa Nautical Delivery

Inside Card: with all good wishes for the new year

“Believe Santa”, Boxed Christmas Cards, Artwork by Susan Winget”