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 ...

Over at Hyperallergic, Allison Meier presents a brief history of creepy Victorian Christmas cards, complete with numerous eye-popping examples of the form. Like this thing: The tradition goes back ...

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 ...

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 ...

Victorian Christmas cards could be quite creepy, with their murderous frogs and mobs of torch wielding birds. But one repeating image is especially strange: the dead bird. What’s the deal with that?

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 ...

The BBC published an article about Victorian Christmas cards yesterday, tracing their history from the strange to the downright disturbing. In some, children languish in boiling teapots.

Find the round robin email soulless? Take a trip back to the 19th century, when beautiful cards like these were how people sent their Christmas greetings. 24 December 2012 • 12:46am A ...

Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals evangelized. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, printed 100 festive cards fe ...

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 ...