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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 stuff ...

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 ...

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 birds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GUTHRIE, Okla. (KFOR) – Victorian ...

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 ...

Many of the Christmas traditions we enjoy today in America come from the period of Queen Victoria’s reign in the United Kingdom, known as the Victorian era. Overland Trail Museum Curator Kay Rich ...