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  2. Christmas card - Wikipedia

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    History. The world's first commercially produced Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley for Henry Cole in 1843. Children looking at Christmas cards in New York 1910. Christmas card by Louis Prang, showing a group of anthropomorphized frogs parading with banner and band.

  3. Henry Cole - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. John Callcott Horsley - Wikipedia

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    The world's first Christmas card. In 1843 Horsley designed the first ever Christmas card, commissioned by Henry Cole. It caused some controversy because it depicted a small child drinking wine. He also designed the Horsley envelope, a pre-paid envelope that was the precursor to the postage stamp.

  5. Yule goat - Wikipedia

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    A 19th century Christmas card God Jul by Jenny Nyström. During the 19th century the Yule goat's role all over Scandinavia shifted towards becoming the Christmas gift-bringer, with one of the men in the family dressing up as the Yule goat.

  6. Christmas traditions - Wikipedia

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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 .

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  7. Christmas - Wikipedia

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    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 ...