In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria ... Photograph by David Min, Getty Images A Christmas tree towers outside St. Peter’s church in Riga, Latvia. Folklore offers a number ...

Few symbols encapsulate the Christmas season quite as well as the Christmas tree. Each year ... Then, the Godey’s illustration was published, with some editing to remove the Queen’s crown ...

While the evergreen décor is evident in the hand-colored illustrations Dickens specially commissioned for the book, there are no Christmas trees in those pictures. Victoria added the fir tree to ...

And just like that, after 91 years of tradition, the massive and iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been lit, officially ringing in the Christmas spirit from New York and around the world.