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The cards started to be produced in large numbers around 1860. The Victorian Christmas cards had nativity as the base of their pictures. In the late years of Victorian era, an English bird Robin and snow scenes became popular. In the United States of America, Christmas cards appeared around 1840.
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In1885, Louis Prang and other Victorian artists began to design Christmas cards picturing rather bizarre subjects, putting a creepy spin on some of the seasonal greetings. Such designs included turnip men (half vegetable, half man), bloodthirsty bears, and dead birds, a symbol of the cold winter season. One card pictured a dead robin with the.
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If you think holidays are weird these days, then you clearly haven't seen these 19th-century Victorian Era Christmas cards that were just as creepy as those times themselves. Bored Panda has gone through an expansive TuckDB Ephemera's vintage Holiday greetings postcard collection to gather some of the most bizarre postcards ever made. From.
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Some designs of Victorian Christmas cards are classics that have endured the test of time, while others may seem baffling to look at now! The Beginning The British businessman and inventor Sir Henry Cole created the first commercial Christmas card.
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The first commercial Christmas card was subsequently designed by John Calcott Horsley and sent by Henry Cole in 1843. It featured a happy family gathered around a table, illustrated above the.
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33 Creepy Christmas Cards That People Actually Sent Each Other In The Victorian Era By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Cara Johnson Updated December 20, 2022 Featuring everything from murderous frogs to dead birds, Victorian Christmas cards were often more disturbing than they were jolly.
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The first modern Christmas card, commissioned by Henry Cole and designed by John Callcott Horsley in 1843, shows a seasonal feast flanked by scenes of Christian charity: feeding of the hungry and.
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published on 06 December 2022 Listen to this article Available in other languages: Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish Printed Christmas cards became popular in the Victorian period (1837-1901) thanks to a combination of cheaper printing techniques and even cheaper post, with the arrival of the Penny Black postage stamp.
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Updated: September 19, 2023 | Original: December 16, 2019 copy page link Danny Lawson/PA Images/Getty Images In the 19th century, before festive Christmas cards became the norm, Victorians put.
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Cut out template You can download the templates to create your own Christmas cards. Choose one of the Christmas Card designs (T1 and T2) print and cut out. You could also use one of your.
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A famous engraving of the Royal Family was published in the Illustrated London News in 1848. It portrayed them celebrating Christmas at Windsor around a decorated Christmas tree, which introduced it to the British. Jones points out that "for most people in Britain the idea of having a tree inside was completely new" (Migley).
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Why are these Victorian Christmas cards so weird? In the Museum of London's collection there are over 800 Christmas cards, many of which date back to the Victorian era. While themes of birds, flowers and Nativity scenes were common, competition and a desire for originality gave rise to a highly successful genre of novelty cards.
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150 Victorian Christmas cards: Antique holiday greetings from the 1800s range from quaint to extremely weird Categories: 1800s, 1900s, Letters & postcards, Vintage Christmas, Winter By The Click Americana Team Added or last updated November 22, 2021
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The Victorian heyday for Christmas cards (1860 - 1890) was prompted by the new printing processes and techniques that combined colour (chromolithography), metallic inks, fabric appliqué and die-cutting to make elaborately shaped cards. Religious Christmas card, Marcus Ward & Co., about 1870, England.