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 ...

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 ...

no Christmas cards were sent and most people did not have paid holidays away from work. But, the wealth and technology generated by the industrial revolution in the Victorian Era changed the face ...

(Heather Shelton/The Times-Standard) Through the end of the month, the museum’s Emmerson Room will be decked out with Christmas toys, cards, decorations and more from the Victorian era (1837-1901).

Ironically, the beloved Christmas card tradition was actually the result of a modernizing world – though the cards sought to evoke a bygone era ... for most of the Victorian population.

Victorian-era Christmas decorations are scattered ... garland is draped on the main staircase and vintage printed Christmas cards are displayed. Elaborate Christmas cards were introduced in ...

Hundreds of pupils in Jersey have gone back in time to see how schoolchildren of the Victorian era celebrated ... Christmas tree cone fashioned from oranges and cloves - and wrote cards using ...