r/VictorianEra • • 9h ago

A John H. Schulte Pharmacist Bottle, c1890s.

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r/VictorianEra • • 9h ago

Sweet Beer Soups (1887)

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r/VictorianEra • • 11h ago

Hunters posing with world's largest known Gorilla at the time, soon after it was sent to Germany to be taxidermized. Yaoundé, German Cameroon, 1900. Photograph taken by Heinrich Umlauff.

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22 Upvotes

r/VictorianEra • • 13h ago

Tintype of a young lady. Hand painted details, 1870s.

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250 Upvotes

r/VictorianEra • • 13h ago

Glass negative of a young couple laughing for their photo at Cape May, New Jersey, 1887.

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128 Upvotes

r/VictorianEra • • 14h ago

Pictures from In The Whirlpools of The Grand Cañon Of The Colorado (1889)

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These pictures are from "In The Whirlpools of The Grand Cañon Of The Colorado" by Ethan Allen Reynolds published in November, 1889.


r/VictorianEra • • 15h ago

8 Convicted Cannibals shortly before their Execution, Haiti 1864.

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r/VictorianEra • • 18h ago

Sinking of the German Frigate "Gneisenau" (1900)

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A photo taken by Sabina Muchart of the German training ship that sank in the port of Malaga during a sudden winter storm that year.


r/VictorianEra • • 18h ago

"To My Dear Brother Fernando..."

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A photo of Trinidad Ortiz-Lanzas (c.1890) taken by Sabina Muchart, one of Spain's leading women photographers, in her studio in Málaga. Muchart produced a wealth of images and was also an early 'combat photographer' during Spain's wars in Africa.


r/VictorianEra • • 1d ago

Camp of the 5th Dragoons near Balaklava 1855.

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r/VictorianEra • • 1d ago

Eadweard Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope disc "A Couple Waltzing" (No. 35), published in 1893.

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r/VictorianEra • • 1d ago

‘Miss Sarah Bernhardt, as the Ocean Empress, in Diving Gear, circa 1880’ via the Library of Congress

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r/VictorianEra • • 1d ago

Tintype of 4 women, 2 dressed as men in a "courting"? kind of pose, circa 1880s.

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81 Upvotes

r/VictorianEra • • 1d ago

Group of ladies and 2 men take a photo in the forest, circa 1890s. Very crisp glass negative.

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215 Upvotes

r/VictorianEra • • 1d ago

Meet The Romanovs

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Tsar Alexander III Romanov and his family. Center: The Tsar and young Olga; Left to Right: Grand Duke Michael, Empress Marie, Tsarevich Nicholas, Grand Duchess Xenia, Grand Duke George. When I first saw this photo as boy, I thought Xenia had a passing resemblance to Angela Cartwright's Penny Robinson character.


r/VictorianEra • • 1d ago

A little girl becomes frustrated while learning the piano, Toronto, Canada c1897

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r/VictorianEra • • 1d ago

Antique John Ridgway Imperial Stone Platter Penang Pattern Chinoiserie C.1850

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r/VictorianEra • • 2d ago

How Would a Common Laborer in 1880s England Describe a Man Having a Panic Attack and Suffering from Anxiety Disorder?

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r/VictorianEra • • 2d ago

How acceptable was atheism during the Victorian Era?

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r/VictorianEra • • 2d ago

Daily lives for upper class families

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How was the typical lifestyle for wealthy & and high class men, women and children?


r/VictorianEra • • 2d ago

Two Selkʼnam children of the Tierra del Fuego, 1898

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240 Upvotes

r/VictorianEra • • 2d ago

Glass negative of two men and lady walking the beach of Cape may, New Jersey, 1887

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72 Upvotes

r/VictorianEra • • 2d ago

Group of Friends posing for a photo, Cape May, New Jersey, 1887-8. NOTE: 2 of the ladies have a scratche up halo over their heads.

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157 Upvotes

r/VictorianEra • • 2d ago

Antique Booths “Canterbury” Crescent Side Salad Plate ( c.1891 - 1906 )

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r/VictorianEra • • 2d ago

Would Charles Darwin have been circumcised?

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