r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 7h ago
Fashion Wedding dress in a unique green colour, and the photograph of the bride who wore it, 1895 ✨
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 8h ago
Misc. Doll in Mourning Fashion, German, 1901
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/jellyarethebestbeans • 5h ago
Victorian Photograph Color photograph taken of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans (about 1900).
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Hopeful-Egg-978 • 11h ago
Humor ‘The Beard and Mustache Movement’ - 1853 British satirical cartoon lampooning the trend of men growing massive facial hair spurred on by the look of Crimean War soldiers
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Illustrated by John Leech for Punch magazine.
r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 1d ago
Victorian Photograph Hand-tinted photograph of a lady wearing a fancy dress costume, 1860s-1870s ✨
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 6d ago
Fashion Fan with bats, stars and a crescent moon. Made of silk, wood, metal, paint, ebony, 1890s. From the London Museum
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 7d ago
Fashion A mourning ensemble from 1870–72
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/works-in-progress • 7d ago
Fashion Interesting guide to Victorian dressing: exactly what a gentleman wore to a wedding, the office, golf, or a ball
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/kittykitkitty • 10d ago
Culture and Society Siblings Rose and Fred, admitted to Barnardo's Children's Home in England. They were separated and sent to Canada as cheap labour. Rose was admitted to an an asylum at age 30 after her illegitimate baby was taken from her.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 10d ago
Period Art Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, Love's Shadow, 1867
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/MCofPort • 10d ago
Period Architecture Lovely concept and architectural drawings used for designing and creating Central Park in New York City. This includes drawings for the oldest section of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Paleozoic Museum, a precursor of The Museum of Natural History with dinosaurs. (1867-1872)
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 11d ago
Fashion Victorian mourning parure (jewelry set) crafted from jet and decorated with female head medallions symbolising 'Night', surrounded by roses and leaves. England (probably North Yorkshire), about 1870.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/TransPeepsAreHuman • 13d ago
Misc. 1 Year Old William Moore’s Memorial Card. On October 2, 1887, He Passed Away. His Younger Sister Had Died A Month Before.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 14d ago
Period Art A Thomas Webb & Sons Cameo Glass Allegorical Vase, ‘Night’, Circa 1900
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/FarStrawberry5438 • 15d ago
Location Grocery store in Sturtevant. Late 1800s.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/tikivic • 15d ago
Victorian Newspaper Almanacs were among some of the first publications to feature comic strips or panels. This is one my earliest. The National Comic Almanac For The Year 1836.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 16d ago
Fashion Two-piece dress, ‘Princesse’ line, ca. 1880 by Charles Frederick Worth
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/FarStrawberry5438 • 16d ago
Victorian Photograph Father and sleepy child, c 1865
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 16d ago
Misc. Open-front kitchen room with a painted grey built-in stove at the back wall below the grey painted chimney; contents include more than 25 pewter pots, urns and pitchers, various tin molds and pants, 6 copper molds, chopping block, and various other utensils and accessories, c. 1850 ✨
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/MCofPort • 17d ago
Science and Technology London's Crystal Palace was a spectacle of engineering. For the first time deeply observing these illustrations, I must say I'm also finding it astounding how much modern shopping malls remind me of this building's architecture, while women wear hoop skirts and men in suits. This is 175 years ago!
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 17d ago
Period Architecture The McCune Mansion is a historic, three-story Victorian-style landmark on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City, Utah, celebrated for its opulent Gilded Age architecture, global imported materials, and reputation for being haunted.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KewpieCutie97 • 17d ago
Interesting Restoration of the Crystal Park dinosaur statues from the 1850s
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 18d ago
Humor "Engineers Dressed Up for Mafficking and Wilson's Mounted Loot" photograph by George Fowler Webster, 1900
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KewpieCutie97 • 21d ago
Historical Figure The surprisingly plain grave of Mrs Beeton
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Green_Drawer_9835 • 22d ago
Victorian Photograph Found at grandma’s house
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