#1880s

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The Kansas Newspaper Union, Topeka, November 26, 1887

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Franz Courtens - Falling Leaves (1888)

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress made of silk, cotton, linen, metal

c. 1883-1885

Glasgow Museums

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger (1814-1893) "Girl with a mandolin" (1887) Oil on canvas Currently in a private collection

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Railroad and train in the Lviv region of Ukraine (1880s). X

[thepapersnail]

James Ensor, Insectes Singuliers, 1888, drypoint

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

If you like fairies or are one, here's my current collection of vintage fairy imagery.

[daguerreotyping]

Tintype of what appears to be a light-hearted spot of stabbing between friends, circa 1880

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Thomas Eakins Cat in Eakins's Yard, ca. 1880-1890. Platinum print | src Smithsonian museums

[eirene]

The Rose of all Roses, 1889

Willhelm Menzler

[random-brushstrokes]

Vincent van Gogh - Seascape at Saintes-Maries (1888)

[yeoldenews]

I am now determined to find a way to use "ice cream freezer" as an insult again.

(source: The Troy Messenger, July 13, 1882.)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905) "The Parisienne (Virginie)" (1883) Oil on canvas Realism

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Charles Martin Hardie (Scottish, 1858-1916)

An Unrecorded Coronation, 1888

[catsofyore]

Tiny virtuoso. Ca. 1880s. Source.

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1889-1892

maker: Sara Mayer & A. Morhanger

V&A Museum