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Images of Rod Wave Vintage Shirt Rod Wave Concert Rod Wave Tour Rod Wave Hoodie Rod Wave Graphic Tee Rod Wave Merch Rod Wave Pittsburgh Rod Wave Louisville Ky Rod Wave Shirt New and her German Prince consort Albert helped make trees popular in the English speaking world. It was a German tradition and her husband, mother, and father’s mother were all Germans. Victoria’s German grandmother, Charlotte, had a yew branch celebration for her children. She was from the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Here is Queen Charlotte with two of here sons.Some of the earliest images that depict the Christmas trees that Queen Victoria helped to make famous and popular have stars on top. Others have a candle and a few have an angel. The older German tradition had candles but they also represented stars. In Nordic countries the still did this until not to long ago. Here is one from 1900. In the US, trees were confined to ethnic German immigrant communities at a time when there were not many Germans in the US before the 1820s. They were not a part of popular American mass culture before the 1840s. The large German immigration (and much opposition to them) was between 1840 and 1910. Over 4.4 million Germans came in that period. Even in the 1870s they were concentrated only in ethnic enclaves and much of America worried that the wold never assimilate. Germans were not considers mainstream Americans at this time. Here is where the lived.

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