How different countries celebrated the New Year in the last century (15 photos)

A small selection of holiday photos taken in the past century. They depict different moments of the celebration of the New Year.

Midnight 1957





Everyone has their own tradition of celebrating the New Year: someone loves celebrate it only in the family circle, while others prefer parties and big companies. Here are old photographs from different corners of the globe to show what the last century was New year's night.

New Year's Eve 1932 at London's Piccadilly Restaurant



Among friends in the Italian capital, 1963





Maternity hospital on the first day of 1932, Paris



Petersburg Noble House, beginning of the last century



The main night of the year at the New York club El Morocco, 1935



The French at a meeting in 1937



Holiday in Canadian Ontario, 1972



Times Square minutes before 1938



New Year's Eve in the dressing room of a German theatre, 1911



Christmas tree in the House of Unions in the sixties



Londoners in anticipation of 1936



Actor Hugo Tognazzi with his fiancee during dinner at the Piedmont casino



Happy Holidays