![]() ![]() In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Christmas train sets began their steady chug toward icon status and American department stores started transforming their window displays into beautiful doll-sized scenes that delighted both children and adults each December. ![]() In the 1700s, people in Poland and parts of central and western Europe incorporated small, handmade buildings into their Christmas decorations, creating what historian Karal Ann Marling calls “a microcosm of the world in which the celebrants lived." In the second half of the 18th century, German members of the Moravian church in Pennsylvania began setting up a “putz” (a decorative scene) around their Christmas trees. The relationship between Christmas and tiny things goes way back. ![]()
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