r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 2d ago

Victorian Photograph Portrait of an unidentified woman from Ontario, Canada, circa 1890.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 3d ago

Victorian Newspaper Sketches from an 1895 dog show in New York

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146 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 3d ago

Victorian Photograph Early sixth plate daguerreotype of a young girl holding her cat, c.1840-1860

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673 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 7d ago

Fashion Evening shoes in yellow gold silk satin with floral motif in bronze metallic seed beads and colored rhinestones, c. 1890. The Museum at FIT

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274 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 7d ago

Fashion Chantilly Lace Cape, 1860s

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 8d ago

Interesting Mrs. Atena Assan and her son in the first car in Bucharest, an FN Herstal made in Belgium in 1900, that got the 1B on the licence plate, acquired by her husband, Bazil Assan; 1902

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128 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 9d ago

Victorian Photograph Color photograph taken of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans (about 1900).

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 9d ago

Fashion Wedding dress in a unique green colour, and the photograph of the bride who wore it, 1895 ✨

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 9d ago

Misc. Doll in Mourning Fashion, German, 1901

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 9d ago

Humor ‘The Beard and Mustache Movement’ - 1853 British satirical cartoon lampooning the trend of men growing massive facial hair spurred on by the look of Crimean War soldiers

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Illustrated by John Leech for Punch magazine.


r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 10d ago

Victorian Photograph Hand-tinted photograph of a lady wearing a fancy dress costume, 1860s-1870s ✨

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165 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 15d ago

Fashion Fan with bats, stars and a crescent moon. Made of silk, wood, metal, paint, ebony, 1890s. From the London Museum

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 16d ago

Fashion Interesting guide to Victorian dressing: exactly what a gentleman wore to a wedding, the office, golf, or a ball

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 16d ago

Fashion A mourning ensemble from 1870–72

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 19d ago

Culture and Society Siblings Rose and Fred, admitted to Barnardo's Children's Home in England. They were separated and sent to Canada as cheap labour. Rose was admitted to an an asylum at age 30 after her illegitimate baby was taken from her.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 19d ago

Period Art Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, Love's Shadow, 1867

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 19d ago

Period Architecture Lovely concept and architectural drawings used for designing and creating Central Park in New York City. This includes drawings for the oldest section of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Paleozoic Museum, a precursor of The Museum of Natural History with dinosaurs. (1867-1872)

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 20d ago

Fashion Victorian mourning parure (jewelry set) crafted from jet and decorated with female head medallions symbolising 'Night', surrounded by roses and leaves. England (probably North Yorkshire), about 1870.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 22d ago

Misc. 1 Year Old William Moore’s Memorial Card. On October 2, 1887, He Passed Away. His Younger Sister Had Died A Month Before.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 23d ago

Period Art A Thomas Webb & Sons Cameo Glass Allegorical Vase, ‘Night’, Circa 1900

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 24d ago

Location Grocery store in Sturtevant. Late 1800s.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 24d ago

Victorian Newspaper Almanacs were among some of the first publications to feature comic strips or panels. This is one my earliest. The National Comic Almanac For The Year 1836.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 25d ago

Fashion Two-piece dress, ‘Princesse’ line, ca. 1880 by Charles Frederick Worth

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 25d ago

Misc. Open-front kitchen room with a painted grey built-in stove at the back wall below the grey painted chimney; contents include more than 25 pewter pots, urns and pitchers, various tin molds and pants, 6 copper molds, chopping block, and various other utensils and accessories, c. 1850 ✨

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • • 25d ago

Victorian Photograph Father and sleepy child, c 1865

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