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Oppenheimer-Alsop Christmas Promotional, Oskaloosa, 1924; Mahaska County, Iowa

This was the scene around Christmas in 1924 if you were in downtown Oskaloosa, Iowa. Pictured here is a Christmas promotional outside of Oppenheimer-Alsop's, which served as toy town and Santa Claus's headquarters that year.

Merry Christmas

Ho, ho, ho

Flu

I want a really, really, really big Christmas!

How about a little puppy instead; Retailers

We're stuck, and it's all your fault!

Gimme the matches; It's your fault!; ... is not!; ... is too!; Congress; Economy

I think the heat has gotten to Dad

We borrowed a page from the Republican playbook and decided to charge ourselves silly this Christmas

We see alot of this at this time of year

Fire

I say we get this one. It will make the gifts placed around it look bigger

Christmas trees

Christmas time at Children's Hospital, The University of Iowa, December 1920

Children's Hospital was later renamed the Steindler Building.

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