Christmas Seals - Guest Margaret Whiting.

Christmas Seals Recordings

brought in top stars like Fibber McGee and Molly and Frank
Sinatra to be sure that every card and package sent during
Christmas included a Christmas Seal.


Christmas Seals donated money to various charitable organizations
for over 100 years. The organization began in the early 1900s
when in the industrial cities many children and adults alike
suffered from tubercuosis. In Denmark, a postage stamp was used
to gather extra money for children suffering from tuberculosis.


In the United States, the Christmas Seals began in 1907 by Red
Cross worker Emily Bissell and seals were originally sold in post
offices for one cent. Money from the seals went to the American
Red Cross and an organization that helped prevent tuberculosis
which went from the number one cause of death to the seventh
cause y charitable money gathered from Christmas Seals benefit
the American Lung Association.