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A Letter From Your Host...
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A Letter From Your Host...
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Note from Editor: This is George Nelson's original greeting page, last updated in 2004. Although health issues forced George to stop maintaining the site or answering questions in early 2008, we have kept this page posted to give you an idea of just how friendly and open to suggestion George always was. We have replaced George's contact information with our own, however. Hello to All, Welcome to the world of early American electric Christmas lighting! My name is George Nelson, your host for a trip into Christmas Past. This web site presents, in chronological order, examples of early twentieth century American Christmas lighting outfits from a collection of more than twenty five years. The presentation is a virtual museum of electric Yuletide lighting history, covering America's one true contribution to the tradition of the Christmas tree. The earliest incarnation of this web site first hit the web in November of 1999, and was hosted on America Online. On March 3, 2001, the site was enlarged and improved, and moved to faster servers due to heavier traffic. Since then, there have been four major updates and revisions to the site. You are viewing the most recent, which debuted in November of 2004. The collection is constantly
growing and this site is always being updated, so for you frequent
visitors, the most recent additions will be noted in a box at the top of
the Table of Contents page. The information presented on these pages is as
accurate as this collector believes possible, but please remember that as
more information is discovered and research continues, changes will be
inevitable.
While the collection presented here
is quite large, it does not include every lighting outfit ever produced
during the years this web site covers. There were thousands of
lighting outfits offered for sale during this time, and the collection is
but a representation of the types of sets available to the public. Please note that I am a collector
only, and do not offer any of the lighting outfits pictured in the
"museum" for sale. I am always glad to answer any questions you might
have, but I do try to stay away from offering appraisals on the sets. Due to
the volume of e-mails I receive on a daily basis, I ask that you please check
the Frequently asked Questions page on the site, located
HERE first.
I sincerely hope you enjoy your
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Note: This is an archive of the late George Nelson's "Antique Christmas Light Museum" web site as it existed in 2006. Except for contact information, link updates, and some information that has been lost, we have attempted to keep the text and illustrations as George presented them, using resources his brother Bill had pulled together before his passing in 2004. However, both Bill and George's pages included so much archaic code and nonstandard graphic formats that it has taken a lot of work "behind the scenes" to bring you this archive. Consequently:
OldChristmasTreeLights™ and FamilyChristmasOnline™ are trademarks of Breakthrough Communications™ (www.btcomm.com).
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