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A Victorian Christmas URL: http://www.scrapalbum.com/vxhome.htm Description: This attractive site features Victorian Christmas cards and illustrations, accompanied by Victorian-era excerpts from the Illustrated London News to capture the essence of a Victorian Christmas. The festivities depicted in the illustrations include seasonal decoration, Christmas music, arriving home for Christmas, Christmas Eve, presents, dinner, Boxing Day, the pantomime, parties, and New Year celebration. Each picture and excerpt is carefully documented, dated, and described. From the Scrap Album. Author: Warrington, Malcolm Library of Congress Subject Headings: Christmas -- Great Britain Christmas cards Greeting cards Victoriana LII Database Information: Record 5458 created by Margaret Myhre on 12/16/2003 Last modification on 01/21/2004 Published: 12/16/2003 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5458 |