The Pullman Palace Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the early decades of the
Kensington and Chelsea Libraries have published several wonderful images by the late amateur photographer Edward Linley Sambourne which captures the c...
Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Protz, an unidentified woman (likely Julia Protz), and Clara Tester posing with "schuetzen-rifles." ...
Children’s clothing evolved as time went by during the Victorian era. Many of these styles mirrored the adult styles of the day to some extent. Small girls wore crinoline petticoats like their mothers. There was a significant difference between the clothes worn by girls and their mothers. The length of the skirts worn by little girls was short than their mothers. Around the age of 16 a girls skirt would be full length down to the ankles just like their mothers. In fact, by this time the well to do young ladies would be dressing in the same fashion as adults. Until the late 1800’s girls were still wearing corsets. Below is a collection of 37 vintage portraits of beautiful teenage girls from the Victorian era.
Amérindiennes : Tous ces portraits amérindiens incroyablement rares et magnifiques sont des femmes et des filles de la fin des années 1800 au début des
The real women who served as muses to Charles Dana Gibson - the illustrator who popularised the iconic Gibson Girl look of the 1900's
We have collected eleven interesting photos from late 1800 to beginning of 1900s, which show the dramatic change in Norwegian society.
Stefan Zweig
“At the turn of the nineteenth century, France is governed by Napoleon as First Consul. As emperor, Napoleon sanctions the Neoclassical style, embodied in the art of Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825). Meanwhile, the seeds of Romanticism—sown here and elsewhere in Europe by contemporary writers, poets, and philosophers—give rise to an aesthetic that exalts emotion, nature, and the sublime over rationalism and classicism. Around mid-century, in the midst of class struggles and the wake of civil uprisings against an oppressive government, Romanticism is supplanted by Realism in the visual arts and literature, which focuses on modern subjects and the lives of the lower classes.”
Here we have a photograph of exactly the type of personality the bourgeois expected to meet at the cabaret. This is Louise Weber or "La Goulue," so named for her tendency to pick up a patrons glass and down the whole thing. The imagery here suggests entertainment, dancing, progressive ideas, liberty, free love, and all that jazz. Liberty is especially present here. Undoubtedly this picture was take after 1886, as she is clearly imitating the Statue of Liberty, gifted in that year. However, rather than pure lady liberty, here we see licentious stockings, her undergarments, her pushed up bust, and in place of a torch, she holds a champagne flute. Furthermore, she is sitting, seeming at ease, and has her legs crossed like a gentleman. All of these things contribute to conveying the image that the cabarets were striving to cultivate in response to Hausmannization, in order to attract their bourgeois clientele. This is a beautiful example of the kind of wild individuality, revolutionary spirit, and slightly lower class type of person that the bourgeois were seeking. Image dated between 1885-1895, I would suggest certainly after 1886. Image found on Europeana.
First Nations (Sarcee?) mother and child circa late 1800's / early 1900's. Photo of a photo. Taken at the Whyte Museum of the Rockies, in Banff, Alberta.
Amérindiennes : Tous ces portraits amérindiens incroyablement rares et magnifiques sont des femmes et des filles de la fin des années 1800 au début des
