When postage became the responsibility of the sender and not the receiver in the 1870s, mailing cards at Christmas became a popular tradition still practiced today. Victorian Christmas shows how some of our most loved Christmas traditions were first celebrated in North America during the Victorian era. Gorgeous photographs and full-color illustrations highlight:
• decorating the evergreen tree
• gift-giving
• Christmas caroling
• jolly old St. Nick
• how to make simple decorations like Victorian children did