From Strasbourg by Émile Hinzelin and illustrated by G. Dutriac, 1921.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

There's a fine line between a symbol of joy and a blazing death torch.

By Christian Magnus, ca. 1917.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Here's the angel of deforestation.  Artist unknown, ca. 1948.  A scan by Nasjonalbiblioteket.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Before the Grinch Stole Christmas, an angel did it.  From Die Muskete, 1919.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"Fröhliche Weihnachten," date unknown.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Artist unknown, ca 1900.  A scan by Nasjonalbiblioteket.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

You've heard that money doesn't grow on trees.  We learn the surprising reason why in Where the Money Grows by Garet Garrett, 1911.  On Wall Street there is a "hoodoo tree" whose evil shadow deprives one of the money-making gift.

"'I am a bill collector disguised as a tree,' said the bill collector disguised as a tree." —Robert Sheckley, Options

"The Royal Oak," from The Illuminated Magazine, 1843.

From Salmon-fishing in Canada by William Adamson, 1860.

From Harper's Young People, 1883.