print email comment close History of the Advent Calendar URL: http://www.sellmer-verlag.de/history.htm Description: This page from a German advent calendar company presents information on the origins of advent calendars and a short history of their evolution from simple chalk lines marking off the days in December until Christmas to paper calendars with windows. The online Advent Calendar Museum provides photographs of calendars from the 1940s through 1960s. Also includes a brief history of the Sellmer Company in Stuttgart and an online tour of calendar production. Publisher: Richard Sellmer Verlag Library of Congress Subject Headings: Advent calendars LII Database Information: Record 552 created by Margaret Myhre on 12/02/2003 Last modification on 12/01/2005 Published: 12/02/2003   Republished: 12/01/2005 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/552