Most people treat old holiday mail like clutter, but a surprising number of antique Christmas cards are edging into serious ...

Thomas Crane, Interior of card, Marcus Ward (1880) (all cards from the collection of Peter Wadham, courtesy Patricia Zakreski) 1880 card by Helen Cordelia Angell, probably published by Marcus Ward ...

The year 1843 was a good one for Christmas. Dickens’s legendary festive tale, A Christmas Carol, was published and the first commercially produced Christmas card was launched. Today, an estimated one ...

The ritual of sending holiday cards at Christmas and for the New Year dates back to the middle of the 19th century. Sir Henry Cole, an English educator and patron of the arts, thought the postal ...

Henry Cole, the founding director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK sent the first Christmas card in 1843.

Overland Trail Museum closed out its holiday offerings Wednesday with its last History Café of 2022. This month’s program focused on Victorian Christmas traditions. “Victorian Christmas customs are so ...

A number of Victorian sources remark on this schoolboy tradition. Young scholars returning home after a long semester of study would fire peas out of their carriage at innocent passersby. The ...

The Victorian Christmas Cards short play festival returns for a second year - It's the World Premiere of six new plays by Seattle-based playwrights! The tradition of sending greeting cards at ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a classic tale following the lives, loves and tribulations of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. The Good Company Players' latest production "Little ...

In December 1848, London newspaper The Illustrated News published an image of the royal family gathered around an eight-foot decorated fir tree at Windsor Castle. This German tradition had been ...