r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 5h ago

Victorian Photograph Color photograph taken of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans (about 1900).

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23 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 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 • • 9h ago

Misc. Doll in Mourning Fashion, German, 1901

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74 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 12h 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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60 Upvotes

Illustrated by John Leech for Punch magazine.


r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 1d ago

Victorian Photograph Hand-tinted photograph of a lady wearing a fancy dress costume, 1860s-1870s ✨

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126 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 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 • • 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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133 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 7d ago

Fashion A mourning ensemble from 1870–72

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 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 • • 10d ago

Period Art Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, Love's Shadow, 1867

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 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 • • 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 • • 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 • • 14d ago

Period Art A Thomas Webb & Sons Cameo Glass Allegorical Vase, ‘Night’, Circa 1900

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500 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 15d ago

Location Grocery store in Sturtevant. Late 1800s.

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162 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 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 • • 16d ago

Fashion Two-piece dress, ‘Princesse’ line, ca. 1880 by Charles Frederick Worth

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645 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 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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97 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 16d ago

Victorian Photograph Father and sleepy child, c 1865

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 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 • • 17d ago

Interesting Restoration of the Crystal Park dinosaur statues from the 1850s

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 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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750 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 18d ago

Humor "Engineers Dressed Up for Mafficking and Wilson's Mounted Loot" photograph by George Fowler Webster, 1900

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97 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 21d ago

Historical Figure The surprisingly plain grave of Mrs Beeton

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243 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 22d ago

Victorian Photograph Found at grandma’s house

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