Era Holiday Cards

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Era Holiday Cards

• Graphic Pictures/Ideas/Site Listing

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• To create your Victorian Holiday card
• Choose a picture and print it on paper
• Choose a quote from A Christmas Carol or David
  Perdues website for the message inside
• Trim your your card decorate it in the
  Victorian style to turn in
• Put your logo on the back of the card (name
  period and date)

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Resources

• Holiday cards became popular during Dickens
  lifetime. However, they looked quite different
  from our cards today.
• Refer to the following site for information about
  cards during this era
• Victorian Christmas cards with descriptions of
  the examples, pictures and text.
• http//http//www.victoriana.com/christmas
  /xmas-side.htm
• David Perdues Charles Dickens Page
  http//www.fidnet.com/dap1955/dickens

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Resources

• Use these slides of pictures to create your own
  version of Victorian Era Holiday cards.
• Remember
• Use any graphic picture you chooseyou do not
  have to include all pictures on a slide.
• Resize the pictures so they fit the scheme of
  your card.

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• To save a picture, right-click on the picture
  and Save picture as on your desktop
• OR

• Right-click on the picture and copy it, then
• Right-click on the document where you want the
  picture and paste it.
• Resize the picture so it looks the way you
  desire.

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Cameos
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Victorian Era Holiday Cards--examples
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More examples
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Victorianahttp//www.victoriana.com/antiques/gree
ting-cards/greeting-cards1.htm
Check out the following sites for more
information and graphics

• David Perdues Charles Dickens Page
  http//www.fidnet.com/dap1955/dickens
• Charles Dickens Victorian Web Sitehttp//landow.s
  tg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html
• Victoriana http//www.victoriana.com/welcome/

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• Victorian Women Writers Project
• http//www.indiana.edu/letrs/vwwp/