Beautiful Victorian Christmas cards. ... An anthropomorphic bottle of port tempts a Christmas reveler in this card from 1875. ... A girl dresses up her cat as a baby in this 1880 Christmas card.

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. Dead ...

Christmas cards today show snowy scenes, Santa Claus or Christmas trees. But Christmas cards back in Victorian times were very different, with lucky horseshoes, dancing dice and exotic parrots.

But if you received a Christmas card in the late 19th century, there’s a good chance you’d find yourself looking at an image of a dead bird. According to Hallmark, about 1.3 billion Christmas ...

THIS creepy collection of Victorian Christmas cards proves that the festive season wasn’t always about a red-cheeked Father Christmas, mulled wine and turkey. From a murderous snowman to Sant… ...

Kittens, suffragettes and snowball fights: How Londoners were wished a very merry Christmas in Victorian and Edwardian cards. By MARK DUELL FOR MAILONLINE. Published: 05:14 EDT, 25 December 2014 ...

Today, Christmas cards have their own familiar, comforting iconography: Santa Claus, candy canes, snowmen, gingerbread houses, etc. But, back in the 19th century, people were still figuring this ...

One of the more curious recurring images on 19th-century Christmas cards is the dead bird, which may symbolize mortality or something more ritualistic. by Allison Meier December 16, 2016 July 13, 2022 ...

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 ...

While Christmas trees have a long and storied tradition in Germany, it wasn't until the Victorian era that they made their way to England, and subsequently the U.S.