Artist unknown, ca. 1909.  A scan by Nasjonalbiblioteket.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

From Cranberries: The National Cranberry Magazine, 1958.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

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.

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

From the Boston Symphony Orchestra Programme, 1881.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Before the advent of PETA, Christmas trees were traditionally fetched by dogs and bears.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1915.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"He looked like a tree would if a tree looked like her husband, or her husband if he looked like a tree."

—The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 84, 1993

An illustration from an 1884 issue of Puck magazine.  The caption reads: "His Christmas Prayer: 'Oh! — — — —!'"  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

A person disguised as a Christmas-type tree, from an 1896 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "I am immense in it, my boy, immense!"  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.