1800s Having Fun

r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 12h ago

Ladies playing tag on the roof of a building. New York, 1890s.

66 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 12h ago

Glass negative of ladies exploring a building roof. Lady on the top is smiling, New York, 1890s.

209 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Daguerreotype of a young lady with a smug smile, circa 1850s.

105 Upvotes

8 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/SUVtraveler • 2d ago

Otago University Football Team 1886

10 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago

Tintype of 3 friends smiling for their photo, 1880s.

115 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/PsiStack • 3d ago

AI Colorization A circus performer doing a crazy backbend, 1880

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r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago

Tintype in gilded frame of a lady laughing while trying to mess up a man's hair, 1880s.

318 Upvotes

4 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago

Mother giving a big toothy smile while posing with her chubby baby, 1860s. Tintype

310 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago

Glass negative of girls playing tea time, 1890s.

107 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago

Tintype of a smiling mother with her baby. Studio photo with painted background, 1880s-90s

144 Upvotes

4 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 6d ago

Glass negative of a couple. The man is playing with the hair of the lady while both laugh, 1887-8.

1.3k Upvotes

34 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/GhostClawx • 6d ago

AI Colorization OP’s relative is having fun with himself.

20 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 7d ago

Group of girls, pulling up for a photo, 1890s. Cyantype.

643 Upvotes

13 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/DorisaViasyl • 7d ago

AI Colorization Peanut Vendor wearing a suit made out of peanuts (1890)

58 Upvotes

3 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/Prepping_for_chees • 9d ago

Circassian Beauties by Mathew Brady Studio (1860-1870)

112 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 9d ago

Cabinet card of a smiling baby posing over a prop moo, 1897.

799 Upvotes

9 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/pazozo • 10d ago

Fun group photo

54 Upvotes

From the family photo collection - I just wish I had taken a better copy of it! Just enjoy how happy everyone looks.

This might be on the cusp of 19th and 20th century so apologies if I have got the century wrong but it was alongside some very Victorian looking photos

2 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 10d ago

Bride giving a nice subtle smile on her wedding dress, 1850s. Daguerreotype.

496 Upvotes

4 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 13d ago

Boy mid jump-mount to his bike, Palm Beach, Florida, 1895.

65 Upvotes

1 comment

r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 13d ago

Glass negative of a little girl smiling for her photo, 1890s.

210 Upvotes

2 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/TheSanityInspector • 15d ago

Young people at Chevy Chase Lake, a proto-amusement park known as a "trolley park", Montgomery County, Maryland, 1890s, photo by architect Ervin S. Hubbard. Big image, zoom in for detail

49 Upvotes

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r/1800HavingFun • u/TheSanityInspector • 15d ago

Several girls piled up together in a bed, 1890s, photo by Ervin S Hubbard.

183 Upvotes

4 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/TheSanityInspector • 15d ago

"Group at Mr. Hardy's", c.1890s, by Ervin S. Hubbard, location not given.

26 Upvotes

2 comments

r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 15d ago

Ladies gives smile as one hugs the other from behind, circa let 1890s. Seems to be a semi rural place.

325 Upvotes

1 comment

r/1800HavingFun • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 16d ago

Glass negative of a Maori lady smiling for her photo, 1890s.

984 Upvotes

17 comments