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 ...

While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, older British holiday ...

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 ...

Most people treat old holiday mail like clutter, but a surprising number of antique Christmas cards are edging into serious collectible territory. The right mix of age, artwork, and condition can turn ...

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 prominent educator and patron of the arts, Henry Cole travelled in the elite, social circles of early Victorian England, and had the misfortune of having too many friends. During the holiday season ...

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 ...

If you have a shoebox of old holiday mail stashed away, you might be sitting on more than just nostalgia. Antique Christmas cards have become a surprisingly hot corner of the collectibles world, and ...