Today we learned that those wonderfully weird Victorian Christmas cards we all enjoyed so much were followed up with equally strange and delightful Happy New Year cards! Nothing says Happy New Year!” quite like stargazing beetles, snarky elephants, drunken frogs and butterfly people, frolicsome pigs or this vexatious New Year’s monkey:
Head over to Hyperallergic to view many more Victorian New Year’s greeting cards and learn about the history behind them.
[via Hyperallergic]
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