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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