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The Christmas card list. Christmas Market in Nürnberg, lithography from the 19th century. Danish Christmas card, 1919. Many people send cards to both close friends and distant acquaintances, potentially making the sending of cards a multi-hour chore in addressing dozens or even hundreds of envelopes.
Some of the cards hold special significance, for example Britain's first commercially produced Christmas card dating from 1843. The collection is catalogued in Laura Seddon's book A Gallery of Greetings. Another section of the collection includes 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from the early 19th century, which Seddon also catalogued.
Sir Henry Cole FRSA (15 July 1808 – 15 April 1882) was a British civil servant and inventor who facilitated many innovations in commerce and education in the 19th century in the United Kingdom. Cole is credited with devising the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas time, introducing the world's first commercial Christmas card in 1843.
From Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, 1843. In the early 19th century, Christmas festivities and services became widespread with the rise of the Oxford Movement in the Church of England that emphasized the centrality of Christmas in Christianity and charity to the poor, along with Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, and other authors ...
The extensive Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection from the Manchester Metropolitan University gathers 32,000 Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards and 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from the early nineteenth century, printed by the major publishers of the day.
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Children depicted pulling a Christmas cracker in a 19th-century English Christmas card. Christmas traditions include a variety of customs, religious practices, rituals, and folklore associated with the celebration of Christmas. Many of these traditions vary by country or region, while others are practiced virtually identically worldwide.
