35 Cool Pics Show Victorian Interior Styles of the Late 19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteVictorian interiors feature beautiful colors, lots of ornate details, and skilled fakery to make the home a welcoming […]
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45 Lovely Pics of Mothers With Their Little Children in the Mid-19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteA set of lovely pics that shows mothers posing with their little children from between the late 1840s […]
38 Amazing Pics Document Everyday Life of the US in the 19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteIn the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded […]
Life of Greenville, Texas in the Late 19th Century Through Amazing Photos
This post was originally published on this siteGreenville is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dallas. […]
Original Goth? Portraits of French Actress Sarah Bernhardt, Who Liked to Wear a Stuffed Bat and Had a Coffin to Sleep
This post was originally published on this siteActress Sarah Bernhardt could be considered one the first goths: she had pets like a cheetah, a wolf […]
Victorian Readers: 40 Amazing Pics of People Posing With Books in the Mid-19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteVictorians were great readers, and the number of novels available for them to read increased enormously during Victoria’s […]
20 Rare Vintage Photos Capture Everyday Life of Ireland in the 19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteIreland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922. For almost […]
A Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir (1896) – The Britain’s Oldest Erotic Film?
This post was originally published on this siteIn her boudoir, supposedly free from prying eyes, a woman undresses to her petticoat before settling down to […]
Wigan’s Pit Brow Lasses: 40 Fascinating Vintage Photos of Women Miners in Pants Who Shocked Victorian Britain
This post was originally published on this siteThere had been a public outcry in the 1830s when it was made public that women and children […]
This Sixteenth Century Clockwork Monk Is Fully Operational
This post was originally published on this siteThe 15-inch-tall clockwork Padre, the figure of the well-known miraculous monk San Diego de Alcalá, was made of […]
In the Days Before Fridges: Amazing Vintage Photographs Show Butcher Shop Fronts in the Victorian Era
This post was originally published on this siteAlthough the Victorian times might be remembered for dodgy health and safety and questionable pie fillings, the 19th […]
20 Amazing Photographs of Hansom Cabs From Between the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
This post was originally published on this siteThe hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an […]
Portraits of Laverie Vallee aka Charmion, Victorian Era American Strongwoman
This post was originally published on this siteLaverie Vallee née Cooper (July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, […]
Rare Photographs of Victorian Women in Working Clothes
This post was originally published on this siteMost of the photographs that survive from the nineteenth century of women in working clothes show them as […]
Street Scenes of Trondheim, Norway in 1893 Through Amazing Photos
This post was originally published on this siteTrondheim is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway, the third most populous municipality in Norway, although […]
30 Amazing Pics Show the Early Days of Photography in the Mid-19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteMost of the earliest photographs were not printed on paper, but on sheets of metal or glass. These […]
20 Striking Color Photographs That Show Everyday Life in Amsterdam Around the Turn of the Century
This post was originally published on this siteThese amazing images are from between the 1890s and 1900s, and were created using the Photochrom process, a […]
Amazing Vintage Photos of Houses Carved Inside Massive Tree Stumps in America From the Early 20th Century
This post was originally published on this siteThe giant size of the stump gives a good idea of the size of the old growth trees. […]
The History of Christmas Trees – How Did the Tree Come to America
This post was originally published on this siteLong before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning […]
The Junction of Steep Street and Trenchard Street, Bristol, 1866
This post was originally published on this siteThis view was recorded five years before Steep Street, curving away to the left, was demolished and replaced […]
Edward Hibberd Johnson, the Man Who Has Been Called the “Father of Electric Christmas Tree Lights”
This post was originally published on this siteAs Christmas approached in the waning days of 1882, Edward Hibberd Johnson (January 4, 1846 – September 9, […]
40 Amazing Colorized Photos of People From the Mid-19th Century
This post was originally published on this siteLong before color photography popularity, here below is an amazing collection of colorized photos from Ann Longmore-Etheridge that shows […]
Did You Know Margherita Pizza Was Actually Named After Italy’s Queen?
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1889, during a visit to Naples, Queen Margherita of Savoy, wife of King Umberto I, was bored […]
Tartan Ribbon – The World’s First Color Photograph, Made by the Three-Color Method in 1861
This post was originally published on this siteTartan Ribbon, photograph taken by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861. Considered the first durable color photographic image, and […]
34 Cool Pics Show Fashion Styles of Victorian Men in the 1840s and 1850s
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the 1840s, men wore tight-fitting, calf length frock coats and a waistcoat or vest. The vests were […]