19th century photos

Beautiful Victorian stage actress Belle Archer looking heartbreakingly blue in this lovely photograph of her in her youth. #Victorian #19th_century #1800s #photograph #antique #vintage #woman #Belle_Archer #actress #stage

Portrait of Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna of Russia 1865

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Life and career of early theatre and film star the beautiful Maude Fealy. Her marriages, stage mother and long relationship with director Cecil B. DeMille

Woman with curls

Don't let the sometimes stiff smiles, prim lace, or black-and-white formality fool you. Look closely at 19th-century photos and ...

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Olivia B. asks: Why do women always seem to be fainting in classic books? Dropping like flies (or at least as far as many stories indicate), it seems as if well-bred ladies in the 1800s struggled to maintain consciousness when faced with even the slightest emotional or physical shock. Over the years there have been several theories as to why [...]

Believe it or not, but prostitutes used to be a relatively well-respected profession—at least, you know, much more so than it is now. If you want to see the prostitution trade in its heyday—the 1860s—check out Copper, new episodes Sundays at 10/9c only on BBC America.

pioneer woman 1880s - https://www.pinterest.com/thepioneerway/pioneer-history/

Unknown Victorian girl. She's very, very pretty.

Not easy to take a photograph in the 1860s. The images in this era (and probably few decades late) were mostly portraits of people in the st...

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805 ...

Say That Again, And I'll Dip You In, 1897