With two weeks to go until Christmas, here is a Victorian Christmas card from Nova Scotia in Canada.
This Christmas postcard, copyrighted in 1909, features a zeppelin. The airships were first flown commercially the following year, operated by German company Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG.
The image was created by American illustrator Ellen Clapsaddle (8th January, 1865 – 7th January, 1934).
Is anyone thinking about Christmas yet? I am!
May I draw your attention to these (real) gold and silver foil Christmas cards for sale, available to be shipped worldwide, featuring a Christmas quote from the final pages of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice:
And, if you’re not sure how shiny they’ll actually be in real life, here are some other Christmas cards from the same supplier I have bought in the past. (English Christmas cards and Ukrainian Christmas cards.)
Children pose with Santa Claus in New South Wales, Australia on the 10th of November, 1941. Australia had been at war for more than two years.
Pilgrims enter Bethlehem, the alleged birthplace of Jesus Christ, at Christmastime in the late 1800s.
