So competitive was the new trade that, as Tara Moore writes in Victorian Christmas in Print, even Alfred, Lord Tennyson was given 1,000 guineas to write a Christmas card poem. Moore adds that ...

Whilst early British Christmas cards usually featured winter scenes and religious themes such as the Nativity, a significant number of later Victorian Christmas were morbid, eccentric and ...

“There were very few nativity scenes or depictions of ... “In the manufacture of Victorian Christmas cards,” wrote George Buday in his 1968 book, The History of the Christmas Card ...

1880 card by Helen Cordelia Angell, probably published by Marcus Ward (click to enlarge) “The main publishers of Christmas cards ... sought to transform the Victorian home into a haven of ...

Some kinds of Christmas card images were as popular in Victorian times as they are today—in addition to that initial happy family, there was also a fair share of cards displaying classic ...

But Christmas cards back in Victorian times were very different. There are no cards featuring Father Christmas, reindeer, snowmen, baubles or sleighs. Instead they depict lucky horseshoes ...

The first Christmas card was designed in 1843. It was a simple illustration with a seasonal greeting. The first cards were expensive, but by the late Victorian period Christmas cards became more ...

A practice common at this time of year is the sending of Christmas cards to friends and family ... and the creation of nativity scenes.

The 19th annual “Dickens of a Christmas ... community room, a Victorian tea and gingerbread contest display at the Cambria County Historical Society, a live nativity and nativity lights ...

“There were very few nativity scenes or depictions of ... “In the manufacture of Victorian Christmas cards,” wrote George Buday in his 1968 book, The History of the Christmas Card ...