Some kinds of Christmas card images were as popular in Victorian times as they are today ... but for people of that era, it was meant to signify a good luck ritual that was sometimes performed ...

While Christmas trees have a long and storied tradition in Germany, it wasn't until the Victorian era that they made their ... the first commercial Christmas cards (seen here) in 1843.

A festive new development in the Victorian era, the first Christmas card was created in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole. According to Ritz Malliett, these early Christmas cards often featured flowers and ...

Christmas cards were also a product of the Victorian era, with civil servant Sir Henry Cole having introduced the world’s first commercial card in 1843. But while we might be more used to seeing ...

The cards were treated as works of art, being displayed in exhibitions and even critically reviewed. The tradition of Christmas gift-giving seriously took off during the Victorian era. Whereas ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Next Tuesday, Willard Public Library is inviting the community to come out and celebrate Christmas as it was experienced in the late 1800s. Organizers say the Victorian ...

From cards to crackers, carols to fruit pies - how many of the Christmas traditions that we know today were made popular during the Victorian era? Find out with famous author, Charles Dickens!

Rudolph and "The Nutcracker"; and on toward the Victorian era, where British and early Americans revived Christmas spirit by revisiting caroling and family feasts, adding in newer traditions ...