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1974: Adolph Jacoby at Meyer Jacoby & Son, a maker of Santa Claus beard and wig sets, on 20th Street in New York. (Teresa Zabala/The New York Times) -...

1951: Orphaned youngsters visited Gimbels department store as guests of the Young Men's Board of Trade. (Meyer Liebowitz/The New York Times) STAND ALO...

1926: Santa feeding the pigeons on Boston Common. (Times Wide World Photo/The New York Times) STAND ALONE FEATURE - PHOTO FROM NYT ARCHIVES

President Barack Obama looks on as former President Bill Clinton speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Dec. 10, 2010. After a...

As former President Bill Clinton looks on, President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Dec. 10,...

President Barack Obama shares a smile with former President Bill Clinton as they speak to reporters in the briefing room of the White House in Washing...

President Barack Obama is followed by former President Bill Clinton as they head to the podium to speak to reporters in the briefing room of the White...

President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton shake hands when speaking to reporters in the briefing room of the White House in Washington,...

Mary Jean Wallace reads at the table, while her dog Townes lays on the floor, at their cabin in the high-altitude mountain mining town of Creede, Colo...

Earnest Khoury, the international affairs editor, smokes and works at his desk at the Al Akbhar newspaper offices in Beirut, on Dec. 9, 2010. The five...

The horse Cheer's Gold looks through the opening of a fence while Zephyrus stands in the background at the Arizona Equine Rescue Organization, an aban...

Andy Cohen, talk show host and Bravo executive, right, on the set of his late night show in New York, Dec. 10, 2010. Since Cohen has become a popular...

Maio Yuqiang visits his mother, Qui Jinzhen, who suffers from dementia, with his wife, Luo, at Shanghai No. 3 Elderly Home in Shanghai, China, on Nov....

Cars and pedestrians wait in traffic for planes to cross the runway at the Gibraltar airport, which shares the main road in and out of Gibraltar, on D...

White and Red Bourgogne wine, during a wine tasting in New York, Oct. 4, 2010. In the hierarchy of the Burgundy wine appellation system, Bourgogne win...

David Gregory bites into a Chef Jacoby's Italian beef sammy, at DC-3 restaurant, in Washington, Oct. 3, 2010. High-end junk food purveyors have recent...

A cluster of Seahawk oil rigs, offshore of Cameron, La., Dec. 6, 2010. Although the ban on drilling in the Gulf was lifted weeks ago, the top regulato...

Kyle Beverly, an oil rig worker aboard Seahawk 2007, spends idle time painting the rig while it's crew waits for the government to grant them a permit...

Highway travelers drive down a new bypass near Hooper, Neb., on Dec. 1, 2010. After a highway bypass was built around Hooper, the town built a concret...

Steamed Chinese-style Shrimp Dumplings, in New York, Oct. 13, 2010. For the most part, the best dumplings, often called shu mai, are made with a focus...

Steamed Chinese-style Shrimp Dumplings, in New York, Oct. 13, 2010. For the most part, the best dumplings, often called shu mai, are made with a focus...

A Butterscotch Eggnog, made with Scotch and brown sugar, in New York, Nov. 28, 2010. To make a more mousse-like eggnog, while still keeping it rich an...

A Butterscotch Eggnog, made with Scotch and brown sugar, in New York, Nov. 28, 2010. To make a more mousse-like eggnog, while still keeping it rich an...

A meat pizza from Matchbox restaurant, in Washington, Oct. 2, 2010. High-end junk food purveyors have recently popped up around Capitol Hill, as a ste...

Compartes Chocolates for a Cause are dark organic chocolates, each imprinted with a map of Africa in a different color, and each sale helps to support...

Lavash Crackers from Hot Bread Kitchen, in New York, an incubator for people, mostly immigrant women, who would like to start careers in baking and wh...

A special Ocean Reserve edition of Iron Horse Vineyards 2005 reserve wine, from Sonoma County, Calif., made in partnership with Mission Blue, an initi...

Several books that have been translated to English for sale in the United States market, in New York, Dec. 7, 2010. Hoping to increase their tiny shar...

Fruitcakes baked by Women Helping Other Women, an organization that provides work and income to needy women in Burnsville, N.C., in New York, Dec. 2,...

Cal State Northridge forward Michael Lizarraga communicates via sign language with a teammate during warm-ups before an NCAA men's basketball game aga...

President Barack Obama boards Air Force One for a trip to North Carolina at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Obama was to...

A cross marking an execution spot at the Kilmainham prison near Dublin, Nov. 27, 2010. The pained debate over a $112 billion international rescue pack...

A park cone displays that the Centennial Cone Park Open Space is closed due to open hunting in Golden, Colo., Dec. 1, 2010. Rangers and wildlife offic...

A show lay in the ruins of Villa Therese hotel in Petionville, Haiti, Nov. 30, 2010. After a year of almost unfathomable hardship in Haiti more than a...

Fabienne Jean, a dancer who lost a leg in the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, holds her prosthetic leg over her shoulder in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 6, 2...

A student at the Compassion of Jesus School works on a math problem in a classroom set in the middle of its ruins, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 7, 2...

Members of the Alvin American Dance Theater perform in "Anointed" in New York, on Dec. 3, 2010. The performance, by Christopher Huggins, was the compa...

A Baskin-Robbins at King Abdullah Economic City, which is beginning to take shape north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 5, 2010. The city, a 65-square-m...

President Barack Obama, bottom center, greets members of the military at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, on Friday Dec. 3, 2010. Obama addressed troo...

Firefighters work to control wild fires consuming an area of the Carmel Forest, near Haifa, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Israel was still struggling on Frida...

People evacuated their homes in a neighborhood of Haifa as wild fires consumed an area of the Carmel Forest at sunrise on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Israel...

Spectators view artwork at The Miami Beach Convention Center as part of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair in Miami, Dec. 1, 2010. While much of the Unite...

The swimming pool at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 2010. The hotel, an anchor of Sunset Strip that is featured in a new movie by S...

The Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 2010. The hotel, an anchor of Sunset Strip that is featured in a new movie by Sofia Coppola, has mad...

Lorrie Stern's 1973 Lamborghini Espada in New Hyde Park, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2010. Stern, who has had the 350-horsepower V-12 Lamborghini for 37 years, whi...

Oil spews from a blown-out well into the Gulf of Mexico during a fly over with Tony Hayward, chief executive of BP, May, 6, 2010. Crews prepared to lo...

Voters cast their ballots with new electronic voting machines during the primaries in New York on Sept. 14, 2010. After years of missteps and delays,...

A horse in a solarium at the Fair Hill Training Center in Fair Hill, Md., on May 5, 2010. Some top-level racehorse owners and trainers, seeking to hea...

Roma protesters hold copies of enlarged fingerprint in front of their faces during a demonstration in front of the French embassy in Bucharest, Hungar...

Student protesters set cardboard ablaze at a bus stop in London, on Nov. 24, 2010. Thousands of students in cities across Britain walked out of classe...