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Victorian Easter Tabletop Decoration – Easter Egg Stand
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Old Fashioned Holidays
Welcome To Old Fashioned Holidays
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wrote 9 months ago: A rapidly-growing collection of historical images and period texts related to those religious and s … more →
Carnival At Rome (1846)
wrote 1 year ago: The Egyptian obelisk that rises dimly in the background of the picture, and whose austere antiquity … more →
The Carnival In Venice (1883)
wrote 1 year ago: VENICE IN CARNIVAL. Old inhabitants had told us that the spirit of Carnival was as dead in Venice as … more →
Victorian Easter Tabletop Decoration - Easter Egg Stand
wrote 2 years ago: Index: Easter Throughout History … more →
History Of Easter Eggs: The Saturday Magazine (1839)
wrote 2 years ago: EASTER EGGS. The custom of making presents of eggs on particular occasions is of great antiquity. In … more →
Easter Image Of Cupids On Egg Flying Into The Sunlight (1890)
wrote 2 years ago: Source: Eggs: facts and fancies about them, Anna Barrows Index: Easter Throughout History … more →
Romances Of Eggs (1890)
wrote 2 years ago: ROMANCES OF EGGS. In the good old times Easter eggs were often adorned with tiny pictures or emblema … more →
Gleaming White Glory Cake Is A Real Easter Treat (1949)
wrote 2 years ago: For Easter, you may want a Glory Cake gleaming white with a green coconut nest filled with candy egg … more →
Easter Scrapbooking: Traditional Images Of Rabbits (1884)
wrote 2 years ago: I took this set of 19th century line drawings of hares and rabbits from Ralph O. Edward’s ref … more →
Illustrations From: Easter In Germany by F.E. Corne (1878)
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Old-fashioned Easter Jelly Dessert (1877) | "Jello" Nest With Blanc-Mange Eggs
wrote 2 years ago: This is an authentic Victorian-era Easter dessert which could be easily modified to use Jello or som … more →
Egg Games For Easter Parties (1890) From Different Festivals
wrote 2 years ago: EGG GAMES. At the pagan new year festivals many games were played with eggs, and some of them still … more →
Leg Of Lamb and Vegetable Souffle (1950)
wrote 2 years ago: Leg of Lamb – Favorite of Many Families for Easter Sunday Dinner A leg of lamb is another trad … more →
History of Easter: European Pagan and Christian Traditions & Superstitions
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wrote 2 years ago: Topics: Aryan sun worship – Dancing sun – Saxon goddess Eastre – Red and golden eggs – Hand-b … more →
Vintage Easter Card (non-attributed)
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Biddenden Easter Cakes & The Conjoined Chulkhurst Twins
wrote 2 years ago: BIDDENDEN CAKES. The small town of Biddenden, in Kent, which is about four miles from Tenterden, is … more →
Poem For Eostre (1887)
wrote 2 years ago: EOSTRE. Goddess of Dawn and Spring, just as of old, Come forth thy fair forerunners, bird and bee, L … more →
Old-Fashioned Easter Egg Crafts (1876)
wrote 2 years ago: EASTER-EGGS. With many it is a curious fancy, to dress Easter-eggs in elegant forms and keep as toil … more →
German/American Easter Traditions & Superstitions (1882)
wrote 2 years ago: I live in the country, but on last Good-Friday was at Reading, and was surprised to see so many pers … more →
