Vintage Holiday Traditions. The Victorian era also had a major and lasting impact on our contemporary ideas about the holiday season. During that time, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, the ...

The illustration showed a group of people around a dinner table and a Christmas message. At one shilling each, these were pricey for ordinary Victorians and so were not immediately accessible.

Victorians were very particular about their settings for dinner tables, especially at Christmas time. Some of the descriptions include water fountains, lakes and elaborate stands filled with ...

“The display right now exhibits a man and woman’s outfits from the 1880s, as well as Christmas decorations and children’s toys all from the 1880s to 1890s. All the items are from the museum ...

Other popular Christmas traditions found on the dinner table included Christmas crackers, butter cookies and orange artfully ... A Victorian Christmas at Wynnewood event from 10 a.m.-3 p ...

What was Christmas dinner like in the 19th century? A holiday feast in Victorian Toronto would look different than one today, but many traditions were similar. “If you were sitting at a typical dinner ...

Some recipes were more extravagant than our typical modern Christmas dinner, like the Yorkshire or Christmas Pie from The Modern Cook by Charles Elme Francatelli (1846), which featured five ...

More than 40 volunteers helped string yards of cranberries, secure electric candles on tree branches and set a Victorian-style dining table as if it were hosting a 1906 dinner for President ...

This will be the first time since 2019 that the museum has hosted the Victorian Christmas dinner party. The dinner will take place at the Loop-Harrison Mansion, right on the museum's grounds.