Celebrating America’s Aluminum Christmas Tree
Aluminum Christmas trees became a popular holiday fixture in the 1960s, and the Aluminum Specialty Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, helped launch the national craze. Their tree, the Evergleam, was the most popular tree available, and several million of them found their way into American homes.
Explore this online exhibit to see original trees, images, and artifacts from the 1960s, and to learn how this Wisconsin innovation took the country by storm.