A Victorian Christmas Virtual Tour and Curator Talk
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- The reign of Queen Victoria from 1839 to 1901 saw unprecedented political, social, military, and technological changes. It also marked the greatest transformation in the way Britons and Americans celebrated Christmas. In addition to rooms decorated with nativities, Santas, and Christmas cards from the era, this year’s Christmas displays will honor Victoria and Albert’s nine children by displaying eight decorated trees from differing time periods of the Victorian era and one very large Christmas Pyramid -- a German custom seldom seen in America. Visitors will also get a glimpse of what men and women may have worn to celebrate the holidays through the incorporation of costumes from the Paramount Pictures Archive, selected by Randall Thropp to showcase Victorian style.
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I am a friend of this family. This gentleman has the most exquisite collection of victorian Christmas decor. He also has an unrivaled passion for medieval era attire. He has such impeccable taste. Great video.
Would love to see that collection! I bet it’s beautiful
Unbelievable Collection- Christmas Past.
One of the best Victorian Christmas tours I've ever seen! Thank you for posting all your treasures.
Thank you - glad you would it enjoyable.
All the vintage Christmas ornaments are beautiful. I like hearing the history of the Victorian era.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it.
As a german this makes me very happy to see such old german christmas decorations being charished! And most of them are still made and appreciated today!
Exquisite collection!
Thank you - glad you enjoyed the presentation!
It's hard to believe that these delicate items have survived. I can't imagine the time it must have taken to collect each of these beautiful pieces. Thank you for sharing!
We have been collecting since 1971.
Awesome tour. Would love to see the trees and their decorations up close in person!
We have been decorating for Christmas for about 20 years at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio. Our displays change each year. They are absolutely worth seeing in person.
Yes!
My mother has one glass ornament that has been passed down from my family since the Victorian era. I remember many more as a kid, but they weren’t as protected as this particular one. I never really took an interest in it but now I have to do some research. Thank you for sharing your precious collection I would love to visit in person one day. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
Family ornaments are the most precious.
Beautiful and very interesting to know. I would enjoy if the camera would focus on the items instead of the whole tree which it’s hard to appreciate the molds, ornaments and each tree history time. Thank you.
Had the exact same thought
This was so interesting and I could listen for hours to this man, he knows so much about Victorian Christmas! Love it!❤
Thank you for your kind comments
I have seen tinsil made out of lead. When I was an archivist and we would process office paperwork many of the christmas cards up to the time following WWII would have black on them. This was not indicating death or mourning but the silver used on the card tarnishing.
This was so interesting! I learned new things about antique Christmas decorations and Victorian Christmas traditions thanks to you.
You are so welcome!
Love the idea of a gift tree, I would like to do one this Christmas
Same here!
I’m fascinated by the Victorian era and fascinated with royalty in general although I’m not a royalist. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert really were the perfect love story. I know she moved his desk into the room where she had hers and did her royal duties from, giving him respect by doing so. I can see how she loved him because he was so knowledgeable and forward thinking. I am at the moment reading Queen Mary’s dolls house which is incredible, every item being made by the skilled workers of the day, for instance the miniature furniture made by furniture craftsmanship, the carpet sweeper and garden tools made by the iron mongers of the day etc. This was a lovely insight into a Victorian Christmas. Thank you.
Thank you for watching - I'm glad you enjoyed it.
This video was heavenly! I loved it! Your knowledge of these Christmas antiques is so fascinating!
Thank you so much for sharing! I wish I had a time machine! ❤❤❤🎄🎄🎄
Thank you
@@georgejohnson8715 Merry Christmas Dr. Johnson. Do you have a TH-cam channel, I would love to subscribe and see your treasures?
This is so gorgeous! Definitely taking notes so I can recreate some of these for my own tree lol
Thank you
Me too!
This was thoroughly enjoyable. Thank-you for making this presentation.
Beautiful displays. Thank you so much for sharing. I visited this house in July 2019. I would love to visit again for your Christmas display !
Hoping you were able to attend this year's display.
@@georgejohnson8715 Unfortunately not as I was a docent in a house museum this holiday season in my hometown.
Wow this was fascinating and very inspiring. I knew that a lot of our ornaments had a Victorian beginning but didn’t realise butterflies, paper chains, cars and houses that light up were on the list. Thank you very much for sharing XX
Thanks for your comments.
First I was looking of these on pinterest. But Now I can actualy see a video one! I love christmas vintage stuff! Very beautiful! Hope I can see them in person!
WE do a Christmas display at DACO each year - usually from late November to early January. Each year the theme changes so visitors can come for many years without seeing repeats.
Wonderful presentation! I could almost smell the figgy pudding and was I was expecting the Ghost of Christmas Past to wink at us from behind one of the trees!
I am glad you enjoyed it.
This so beautiful and breath taking! I Love to see these items so lovely. Thank you for sharing ❤️
Thank you
This was I think the best victorian christmas tour Ive ever seen.I loved all the displays and esp all the information given!!
I really felt like I was back in those times...amazing!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely tour. Thank you.
This was AMAZING!!! You’re so knowledgeable along with THE MOST amazing collection I’ve ever seen! Truly jealous of your wife 😊 what a tour- it was fun to watch on Christmas Day 🎄❤️
Thank you
Well presented.
Thoughtful and accurate information.
This collection is FABULOUS, and artistically superb.
The museum and display play together beautifully.
We will plan to visit in the future!
Thank you. We have set up displays from our collection at the museum for 20 years and the displays change each year. We are currently discussing ideas and plans for Christmas 2022.
@@georgejohnson8715 gosh, wish I would have caught this one! It was truly fabulous George!
Thank you for the wonderful tour! I will definitely like to visit if I ever get to Ohio! Love Victorian Christmas decor ‼️🎄🎅🎄🎀🎄
Glad you enjoyed it.
I enjoyed seeing your collection so very much! Thank you for sharing and seasons greetings to you! 🎄
Glad you enjoyed it - Happy New Year to you and yours.
Thank you so much for this video. I absolutely loved it!
Thank you - glad you found it enjoyable.
Sich a darling collection and presentation. Thank you for the tour!
Than you for watching
Loved this video, just came up. Thank you for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
I absolutely loved watching this video. Thank you so much for sharing. I was so intrigued the whole time
Thank you for watching
Absolutely love it. Thank you for sharing this
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it.
Thankyou for sharing! I love it!
Glad you enjoyed the presentation.
The music box is absolutely haunting
It kind of is, isn't it
you did a great job designing and in such details. love it.
Thank you. My wife Jeanne has a good eye for designing
Just found this on my Facebook feed. Amazing!!!! If this is yearly thing I will be sure to plan a trip !!! Thank you for sharing this amazing collection!!
We do this every Christmas! Come see us! Admission is free!
.y mom was a docent at the Maux Home in Fresno CA. He was a doctor who had 2 daughters, that lived in the house till their deaths.
This whole video was enchanting. Merry Christmas!
Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you and yours
I enjoyed the tour so much..thank you!
I'm certainly happy that you enjoyed the presentation. The 2023 video of "A Homemade, Handmade, and Artist Made Christmas" is now available on TH-cam.
What a joy! Thank you so much. Jan
Thank you for watching
Thank you for showing and explaining this fabulous collection !! Would love to see some close ups added to the end .so happy you pointed out the cookie box.I have always given animal cookies too small children.
Glad you enjoyed the presentation - I'll pass you thoughts onto the videographer.
THE ORNAMENTS ARE GORGEOUS
This is so cool, great job finding all these items. Merry Christmas
Thank you
Thank you for taking the time and sharing your collections with us.
You are welcome, glad you enjoyed the presentation.
Thank you, was informative and great to watch 🙂
Thanks for Watching
that is awesome! what a great tour!! thanks from British Columbia.
Thanks for watching and commenting
Thank you so much for this wonderful video!! I loved seeing all the beautiful decorations and learning their historical significance!!! You've displayed everything beautifully in each room.Your explanations were so interesting. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Vermont
Thank you for your kind words = glad you enjoyed it.
Beautiful displays! Great explanations.
Thank you
Thank you! !!Very nice collection. Beautiful pieces! !!Enjoy for my👍
Thank you
Super appreciated this!
Thank you
This is absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful place and it's history!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Soooooo FABULOUS! BEAUTIFUL! PERFECT NARRATIVE! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH ! LOVE !
Glad you enjoyed it
The angel and gift trees are so sweet ❤️
I think so too, thank you.
This was an absolutely fascinating tour and it was excellently presented. Thank you so much.🌷
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it.
What a fantastic, historical collection. Your knowledge of these precious items is vast. Thank you for the tour. Shared this video. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for sharing!
Thankyou for sharing . Watching from uk x
Thanks for watching - Happy Christmas
What an extensive collection!!! WOW!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dear Curator,
Thankyou for taking the time to share with us your extensive knowledge and passion around all the items that have been carefully curated to make this museum exhibition walk through visit possible.
Every blessing 🙏to you and your team for all your Christmases and future videos.
Thank you for the kind words, we are certainly glad you enjoyed it.
Lovely tour, interesting, congratulations
Thank you
informative and enjoyable video; Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Really great information. I loved seeing the Victorian decor!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That's all astonishing. Thankyou for making such an interesting video. I used to design Christmas cards for a well-known firm. I'd have been so inspired by these displays! Well, I AM inspired all over again. Wonderful collections. All those paper pop-up are amazing.
I'm glad You found the video inspiring to you work as a designers.
Exquisite! Spectacular! So full of interesting facts and pieces I had never seen before. Thank you so much for the time, effort and preservation! Absolutely outstanding.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful displays.
Thank you
Very enjoyable! Thank you!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Muchas gracias por este hermoso tour, preciosos objetos que adornaron las casas en ese tiempo.👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥰
Thank you!
This is so fascinating. One request is that you zoom in more and use a light to see the ornaments up close. It is hard to picture what you describe without seeing it better. Thanks so much!
I will pass your recomendation along to the videographer; however closeups of the many hundreds of decorations becomes very time consuming.
It’s sooooooo beautiful sir🎉🎊🎉🎼🎼🎼 thank you so much to post your Christmas video.❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️
Glad you enjoyed the video. The 2023 video of "A Homemade, Handmade, and Artist Made Christmas" Is available now on TH-cam. Enjoy!
Christmas Day! Enjoying this video. I have one feather tree. It is my treasure.
Glad you enjoyed the video -- feather trees are wonderful for displaying decorations
Wonderful display.
Thank you
Wow this was beautiful
Thank you
Beautiful
Thank you
Fantastic video - as an antique German Christmas collector, this was very educational
Thank you - so glad you enjoyed the video. Good luck in finding those wonderful German glass ornaments!
Thank You ..Sooo very Interesting
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Glad you enjoyed it.
Wonderful. All we need is to hear the pianoforte, or a harmonium, or some singers. Merry Christmas.
Thank you for the suggestions
The print on your curtains looks like a Wm Morris fabric/wallpaper print from the Arts and Crafts period.
Love this site
thank you
Nice ideas!
hope you can use some of them yourself
QUE HERMOSO
SALUDOS DESDE MÉXICO
SHALOM
thank you
That dress from The Alienist 😍
My wife loves that one too
I decorate our house in a Victorian theme. We've purchased reproduction decorations and antique ones as well.
sounds lovely
Good show! Now all you need is a cat, or two! Best wishes from Lisbon Portugal
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video, my wife and I have three cats :-)
@@georgejohnson8715 So I have nothing else to suggest! ☺
Wunderschöne Weihnachten Dekoration schöne Grüße aus dem Wien 💯💯🌲🌲🌲☃️☃️☃️☘️☘️🦃🦃🦃🐝🐝🐝
Vielen Dank!
First originals , then not christmas related trees but tied with winter solstice, had decorations made from straws and red yarn, what was/is our very old tradition what comes from time before christmas was even a thing. First public Christmas tree in history was put up in Tallinn / what was very important port and trading town then / and yes it was decorated with edible gifts / apples and cookies/ for town poor people. Later was used more items like nuts and berries too. From that it very quickly spread to all over the world. To have evergreen tree decorated for winter solstice is our very very old tradition what goes back to maybe before AD, it was just taken over and started use in religious context. Anyway outcome was not bad, nowdays it has got nearly back its old meaning - to bring hapiness and hope to people in darkest time of year.
Thank you for the added information. I hope it will be helpful to the readers of the comments.
Splendid documentary! Lovely collection!I learned a lot! Only thing was the amount of ums and uhs in the presentation got kind of distracting.
Thanks for watching - sorry about the ums -- not scripted speaking off the cuff for an hour does that to me
I came upon this video and was glad I did. The presentation was so enjoyable and informative. Dr. George Johnson, do you have a TH-cam channel and if so can you please post the link? If you don't have a channel you should start one. This was a pleasant end to my Christmas Day, Thank You.
I do not currently have a TH-cam channel, but I have been considering one. I have two other videos from past displays. They can be found on TH-cam under “A Storybook Christmas featuring A Very Brady Holiday” Virtual Tour and Curator Talk" and "Virtual Tour: A Russian Christmas"
@@georgejohnson8715 I watched both of the other videos before commenting and they were excellent as well. If you do make a channel would you please let me know in this thread. Thank you for the reply, Id love to watch quality content with you at the helm :)
Nice
Thank you.
The gift tree reminds me of the Vogue Christmas tree from the 1970s decorated entirely with packets of cigarettes 😂
Never saw that kind of tree before - certainly a strange one :-)
Thank you so much for this presentation it was so informative as well as beautiful.
Though it is now past Christmas 2022 I hope you had a very Blessed Christmas.🌲✝️
Jesus is the Reason for the Season.
Thank you so much!
This is one of the most interesting & fascinating virtual tour with the worst editing ever.
Glad you found it interesting. It's only the second video our videographer shot - I believe they are better now.
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Thanks for the hearts.
Enjoyed everything. I just noticed in description that Queen Victoria's reign had the wrong date. It was 1837-1901. I don't know if you are able to edit.
You are correct - have to fix it for next time.
I really enjoyed this video video I'll probably never get to Ohio so I enjoyed looking at all of it I learned a lot about it's not about the décor and decorating of the trees back in the 1800s was very interesting and very educational thank you very much very short
thank you
I can't believe I've never heard of this before. Circleville isn't far away from Lancaster at all.
Come visit this year's display - there is also a video tour of it.
Wonderful! Thanks so much for this! Get rid of those babbling women!
Does anyone know the name of the music playing?
Sorry I can't be of much help-- the musical background was added by the gentleman who produced the video.
I'm determined to make gilded walnuts once.
I would encourage you to give it a try.
Are the gift and angel trees made from feathers?
Yes, collector call them 'feather trees' goose feathers are dyed and stripped along the central spine. As they are wrapped around a wire 'branch' the feather spreads out like pine needles.
I have 1 question. Where can I find that beautiful version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen?
Bing Crosby did a nice version
@@georgejohnson8715 I know. I love that version, but I wanna know where I can find the version in the video
@@HeyYouShouldSmile That was added by the gentleman who did the video and I'm not sure what he used.
@@georgejohnson8715 Again, I know. That's why I left a comment asking where I can find it.
HOW can a cardboard building safely have a lit candle in it?? The trees are scary enough, but this seems like a recipe for holiday disaster.
The German candle houses are indeed rare. How many went up in flames is hard to say. However, Trees and other candle-lit items were not lit and left alone as we currently do with electric lights. They were usually carefully watched and enjoyed for a while and then blown out.