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Lower forms of life. 1868. Cover.
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#historical fashion poll submission#historical fashion polls#fashion poll#historical dress#historical fashion#dress history#fashion history#fashion plate#19th century#19th century fashion#19th century dress#mid 19th century#circa 1860#1860s fashion#1860s dress#1860s#circa 1865#1865#skirt
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Miss Mann, 1862.
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uaaaaa this took SO long i鈥檓 going to die
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D臎膷铆n, Czech Republic 1860/70
#D臎膷铆n#czech republic#czechia#1860s#1870s#europe#history#vintage#photography#19th century#places#elbe#landscape#ships#panorama#cityscape
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Skating on Central Park, New York, John Henry Bufford, 1861
Lithograph 43 x 69.2 cm (17 x 27 录 in.) Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
#art#john henry bufford#central park#19th century art#19th century#1860s#ice skating#new york#new york city#lithograph#print#american#works on paper#winter#yale university art gallery
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Pinch yourself: my gallery of dreams is here.
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Total eclipse of the Sun, July 1860, illustrated by astronomer Warren de la Rue.
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Konstantin Flavitsky
Princess Tarakanova (1864)
#painting#art#traditional art#oil painting#artwork#oil on canvas#canvas painting#1860s#19th century#historical painting#history art
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Journey through Time: William Morris's Day and Night, a Tale of 1860s
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Brooch with a Bird's Claw
c. 1860-1870
Scottish
The Walters Art Museum
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A selection of strange and cryptic personal ads from The New York Herald, 1860s to 1890s.聽14/?
#in the 8 years since I first posted these they have updated from photocopy quality microfilm to scans#the blue veil one sent me down one of the most interesting research rabbit holes I've been down in a long time#which i will definitely be writing about once I have written the 47 other things on my list#writing prompt#victorian#history#personal ads#ny herald personals#1860s#1870s#mysteries#gossip#journalism#writing prompts#writing inspiration#writing
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Guinevere and Iseult: Cartoon for Stained Glass, William Morris. 1862.
#art#aesthetic#art history#historical fashion#historical art#women in art#victorian#women#pseudo medieval art#medieval art#1860s art#medieval aesthetic#guinevere#iseult#Isolde#arthurian legend#medieval fashion#1860s#william morris#stained glass#tristan and iseult#Arthur and Guinevere#king arthur#medieval legend#french medieval#welsh medieval#Irish medieval#engraving#cartoon#fashion
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Painting by Queen Victoria, 1863-67.
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A dress made of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (sternocera aeqisignata), Britain, 1868-1869 CE. Over 5000 beetle wings or parts of wings were used to decorate this dress.
Now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
#reddit#artefactporn#fuckoff555#dress#clothing#fashion#cotton#muslin#gilded metal thread#indian jewel beetles#sternocera aeqisignata#britain#1860s#1800#1868-1869#beetle#wings#victoria and albert museum#green#insects#bugs#british
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