A big Merry Christmas from the Open Knowledge Foundation to all our friends and supporters! In the festive spirit, we’ve put together a few images, texts and audio recordings from various open knowledge projects for your delectation. If you’d have any suggestions for things to add, please let us know in the comments below. See you again in 2010!

Wikimedia Commons

Utagawa Hiroshige, “Snow falling on a town”

Utagawa Hiroshige, “A river among snowy mountains”

Utagawa Hiroshige, “Nichiren going into exile on the island of Sado”

Utagawa Hiroshige, “Oi on the Kisokaido”

Caspar David Friedrich, Winterlandschaft mit Kirche (Winter landscape with church)

Caspar David Friedrich, Verschneite Hütte (Hut in Snow)

Caspar David Friedrich, Hünengrab im Schnee (Dolmen in Snow)

Caspar David Friedrich, Der Chasseur im Walde (The Chasseur in the Forest)

Flickr Commons

‘The Isefiorden, Spitzbergen, Norway’ from the Library of Congress

‘Snow field, Australian alps’ from the Powerhouse Museum

‘Le port de Venasque, Luchon’ by Bibliothèque de Toulouse

Project Gutenberg

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Some Christmas Stories

• Public domain text of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
• Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol
  
• Some Christmas Stories

Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night before Christmas

• Twas the Night before Christmas

Librivox

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

• Dickens’ Christmas Carol read by volunteers in the Librivox community.
  

Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night before Christmas

• Twas the Night before Christmas

Christmas Carols

• The Librivox community recently uploaded a collection of Christmas carols to celebrate Christmas 2009!
  

Internet Archive

Christmas 78 Miscellany

• Various Christmas songs digitised from 78 format

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