People in history celebrating Christmas on the beach

A vintage color illustration featuring children playing at the seaside and Christmas greetings (c. 1890)

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Beauty queen as Christmas tree: Girl in her bathing suit with Christmas tree dressing on a Californian beach (c. 1930)

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Visitors staying at the Branksome Towers Hotel in Bournemouth enjoying an unseasonable swim on a private beach at Christmas time (Dec. 23, 1932)

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Christmas on the beach – bathers with medicine balls (c. 1935)

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Santa Claus posing surrounded by young women in bathing suits on the beach of Venice, California. In fact, it is Fred Robert, a shoe seller who made a fortune. Dressed as Santa Claus, he shared his wealth by organizing a Christmas party to which hundreds of children were invited (1939)

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British soldiers tuck into a Christmas pudding at their post on the British coast, during the second Christmas of World War II (Dec. 26, 1940)

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A group of women decorating a Christmas tree on the beach (c. 1950)

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A family decorates their Christmas tree with balloons on the beach, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia (1956)

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Santa Claus on Miami Beach surrounded by young women In swimsuits (c. 1960)

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A Christmas tree on Saint-Petersburg beach in Florida (1960s)

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Crowded beach at Christmas time in Playa Del Carmen on the Riviera Maya in Mexico (c. 1968)

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Father Christmas arrives at Cypress Gardens, Florida, on his surfboard (Dec. 20, 1968)

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Santa Claus on a beach in Florida (1978)

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