#19th century photos

[frostedmagnolias]

The Evening Sun (Iphigenia)

1860

by Oscar Gustave Rejlander

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Some belated photos from the "Fashioned by Sargent" exhibit at the MFA Boston. My pictures just don't do it justice! I'm not one for hyperbolics, but it literally took my breath away, even with the crowds of people everywhere.

evening dress by the House of Worth (c.1880); owned by Sarah Choate Sears, who Sargent painted in another dress in 1889

reflection of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889); costume designed by Alice Comyns Carr and created by Ada Nettleship

evening dress with matching shoes by the House of Worth (c.1895)

Mrs. Charles E. Inches (Louise Pomeroy) (1887); dress made in 1887 and likely altered 1902. Louise was pregnant at the time of her portrait, and if you look very closely, you can see the dress skirt has adjustable panels to accommodate a changing body.

photos by me (@edwardian-girl-next-door)

[history-of-fashion]

1894-1901 Portrait of four young women (photo by C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C.)

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

[exploring-the-past]

Dress from circa 1840s

[lionofchaeronea]

Photographic half-length portrait of a Native American (Dakota) man named Sun Flower, taken by a photographer for Heyn Photo in 1899. Now in the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

[vintage-sweden]

Cat, 1880s, Sweden.

[vintage-russia]

From anthropological album "The Russians" (1867)

[nemfrog]

Seen at Syracuse, N.Y. Reports on observations of the total solar eclipse of December 22, 1870. U.S. Naval Observatory. 1871.

Internet Archive

[thinkingofbluethunder]

Morning winter sun in a cottage in Sweden.

[frostedmagnolias]

Unknown woman photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron

1868-1872

[coeurdeverre82]

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1890 Man in a satin-faced coat, holding a cane (photo by Alvan S. Harper)

(State Library and Archives of Florida via “Florida Memory”)

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype of a tough guy missing an eye, half a pinky—and, perhaps, the subjects of the group portrait that he's holding up to show you, c. 1850s

[exploring-the-past]

Silk dress from circa 1858

[vintage-sweden]

Women selling funeral wreaths by a graveyard, 1890s, Sweden.

[vintage-russia]

Nannies with children, Russia (19th-20th century)