The Victorian and Edwardian eras, which saw tremendous industrialization, technological development, and social transformation, are known as the two of the most revolutionary times in British history. These two periods were a time of great cultural richness and diversity, with art, literature, and music flourishing.

That's why, an Instagram page by the name of "Victorian chronicles" is sure to take you back in time to the said eras. This account is a historical and photographic treasure trove, bringing up a visual feast of photos and even facts that might interest you. So why not take a break, pour yourself a cup of tea, and lose yourself in a world of history?

#1 Portrait Of Ah-Weh-Eyu (Pretty Flower), Of The Seneca Nation, 1908. Photo By J.l. Blessing

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The page offers a new viewpoint on history, whether it be a woman dressed as Batgirl in 1904 or a rare image of a black female Union soldier from 1862. "Victorian Chronicles" is the ideal place for anyone who enjoys history, vintage photography, or just wants to see something new and intriguing because of its well-chosen selection of photos!

#2 Rare Picture Of A Black Female Union Soldier 1862

Her name was Cathy Williams and she had to pose as a MALE to be enlisted at the Time..She was part of the 38 Regiment,Infantry Division and was called a Buffalo Soldier.

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#3 Unidentified African-American Family Prairie Settlers From The 1880s

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As you may have noticed, the page also offers descriptions and background information in addition to the pictures itself, which helps to make the pictures come to life. These specifics provide a greater understanding of the people, places, and events shown in each photograph as well as the historical setting in which they were taken.

#4 Two Ladies Making A Snow Lady. This Photo Was Originally Printed In Strand Magazine, Volume III 1892

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#5 Portrait Of Hattie Tom, An Apache Native American, 1899

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The inventiveness and vigor of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are bound to excite you, whether you're drawn to their avant-garde inventions or their daring dress choices there is something just so fascinating about being able to take a look at these old photographs and learn something new about our world's history in that one particular time period.

#6 This Photograph Shows A Young Mother, Exhausted From Spending Hours Making Matchboxes, A Pile Of Which Can Be Seen On The Table

At her feet is a young, sleeping baby covered by a blanket. Picture taken In Whitechapel, London circa 1890. For such homeworkers engaged in the sweated industries there was no division between work and home life. Match-box making was amongst the lowest paid work. The industry primarily employed women and children who could expect to work an average of 16 hours per day. For every 144 boxes made they received 2 pennies. This photograph appears in an album with a number of other prints depicting sweated labourers and London's poor. Such albums were often compiled by charities to raise funds and inform the public about the plight of those living and working in London's poorest areas, such as the East End

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#7 A Kitty Basking In The Beard Of Louis Coulon, A French Metallurgist, Taken In 1890

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So, Pandas, what was your favorite photo or fact about the Victorian and Edwardian eras from this post? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below! We're eager to hear what stood out to you the most and why. Also, don't forget to check out the page itself for more interesting images and facts.

#8 A Young Victorian Lady Photographing A Mirror Selfie. Circa 1900

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#9 A Woman Dressed Up As Batgirl In 1904, 35 Years Before The Creation Of Batman In 1939, And 57 Years Before The Creation Of Batgirl In 1961

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#10 Unknown Victorian Lady Pulling A Face For The Camera

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#11 Amelia Van Buren With Friend Photographed By Thomas Eakins, Late 1880s, Metropolitan Museum Of Art: Photography

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#12 Young English Victorian Lady Posing With Her Pet Cat C1890s

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#13 A Female Mason Perched High Above Berlin (C. 1910)

With the rise of industrialization, the number of German women who worked outside the home also increased. This usually meant factory work. But in some families with their own businesses, daughters also learned a trade so that they could help out: here, we see a master-mason’s daughter during the renovation work on the old city hall tower in Berlin

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#14 Portrait Of A Cat Entitled “Pussy” Photographed By Edward And Henry T. Anthony & Co. Circa 1869-1875

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#15 Portrait Of Victorian Bird-Man In Norway, Robert Collett (1842-1913) Taken C. 1910

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#16 Portrait Of Another Victorian Batwoman, Shown As Marie Schleinzer, Taken At Adele Kuk Hof-Atelier, Vienna Circa 1890

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#17 "A Fine Day In London" Photographed By Hector Colard C.1898

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#18 Female Japanese School Students, They Were Wearing Edo Period Uniforms Consisting Of A 'Hakama' (Skirts Worn Over A Short-Sleeved 'Furisode Kimono', In The Tokyo Prefecture, Meiji Era, Imperial Japan, C. Early 1910s

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#19 Portrait Of Actresses Maude Adams And Ethel Barrymore, Taken In New York, Circa 1897

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#20 Unknown Victorian Woman In A More Unusual Pose At The Time, Having A Good Ol’ Chuckle

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#21 Autremagazine 1890s, An Inuit Man Warms His Wife’s Feet. Greenland

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#22 ‘Blackbirds’, A Group Of Men And Women Sitting In A Fallen Tree. Photograph By Louis Milton Thiers C1910

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#23 Vintage “Selfie” Photo Set With Unknown Female Couple Either As Lovers Or Possibly Sisters ( Due To Likeness) Circa 1900

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#24 Vintage Studio Portrait Of Girl A With Cat, Circa 1913

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#25 A Couple Of Victorian Travellers Looking Rather Dandy Taken Around 1890s

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#26 Mother And Daughter Watch A Tall Ship Navigate The Thames Assisted By A Steam Tug, London, Ca. 1880 - Sunderland Antiquarian Society

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#27 A Victorian Lass With Rather Long Hair In A Fashionable Pic C1890s

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#28 Street Vendor Selling Mummies In Egypt, 1875

Unfortunately the Europeans at this time (1890s) had an almost insatiable appetite for purchasing these "mummies". There was a thriving black market in mummies, which resulted in many being "faked" by digging up more recent burials and selling them, as in the hot dry atmosphere of the Egyptian deserts it was relatively easy to bury a recent corpse and let it "dry out" naturally in the sand! Mummies were also still being used in medicine, and at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries there were many new "fads" and taking ground/powdered mummy was considered by some as very beneficial!

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#29 Blanche Allarty Excited Circus Crowds In The Late 1890s With Her Superior Equestrian Abilities

A born crowd-pleaser, she continually innovated new tricks to keep her fans yearning for more. In a male-dominated world, Blanche Allarty became famous for gracefully executing death-defying tricks. According to Hilda Nelson, author of Great Horsewomen of the 19th Century in the Circus Allarty became one of France’s “most famous and admired ecuyère of haute école (a female rider of the upper school). She was among the first women in history to perform virtuoso dressage and she was highly respected for it

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#30 Rather Creepy Victorian Humpty Dumpty Adaptation From Alice Through The Looking Glass Circa 1873

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#31 Portrait Of Actress Evelyn Nesbit Photographed By Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., 1901

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#32 ‘New Woman’, (A Self-Portrait), 1896 Photographed By Frances Benjamin Johnston

She was one of the first female press photographers in the United States, a significant contributor in the documentation efforts of architecture in the American south, and the beating heart of every party she attended

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#33 Alice Doherty - The Minnesota Woolly Girl - Poses With Her Family In A Typically Dour Victorian Photograph Circa Early 1900s

She suffered from “dog-faced” hypertrichosis, a rare condition that wasn't an uncommon sight in the world of Victorian-era so called ‘freak’ shows. Alice and her mum toured with Professor Weller’s One-Man Band from the age of five, and was exhibited in shop windows and other small venues. Other hypertrichosis sufferers made a small fortune touring in Europe, but Alice never reached their heights of fame. In 1915, aged 28, she retired in Dallas, Texas where she died in 1933

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#34 Having A Tooth Taken Out At The Dentist In The UK In The 1870s

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#35 Apparent Photo Of 2 Drunken Women Fighting On A Rooftop

London, circa 1902, taken by American photographer Jack London. He was using a handheld Kodak Folding Camera, which used roll film, and with a shutter speed that was perfectly capable of capturing movement. His photographs were published in 1903 in his book ‘The People of the Abyss,’ a photojournalistic narrative of poverty in London’s East End. London disguised himself as a runaway American sailor, rented a small room, bought some used clothes, and walked the streets. This disguise enabled him to capture a unique record of candid images such as drunken women fighting, children dancing to a street organ, and men sleeping under the arches of bridges in the raw cold

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#36 Group Of Debutante Ladies, Washington, Dc, Circa 1910 - Colorized By Olga Shirniba

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#37 Another Saucy Edwardian Era Woman Posing On A French Postcard. Circa Early 1910s

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#38 1895: Angie Means Stands On A Giant Amazonian Water Lily Pad, Victoria Regia, In The Phipps Conservatory’s Victoria Room, Pittsburgh, USA

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#39 The Smallest Shop In London, Occupied By A Cobbler, At 4 Bateman Street, Soho. The Shop Is Six Feet Long, Five Feet High And Two Feet Deep, The Rent Three Pounds A Week, It Has Been Occupied For Over Twenty Years. C.1910

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#40 Titanic Survivors Marjorie And Charlotte Collyer In New York Immediately Following The Sinking Of The Liner In 1912

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#41 Victorian Woman Dressed As A Witch Or A High Priestess, Taken At Emil H. Klemke's Photographic Studio In Scribner, Nebraska (Population, 827) In Around 1900

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#42 A Group Of Breaker Boys At The Woodward Coal Mines In Kingston, Pennsylvania, Pose For A Photograph Taken In C. 1900

A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker. Breaker boys were primarily children, and the practice of employing children for this job did not end until the early 1920s

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#43 Woman In Black Taffeta Dress And Lace Shawl C. 1850

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#44 Touching And Final Photograph Of A Young Girl, Who Became Terminally Ill And Shortly After Was Taken

Daguerrotype photography was taken around 1850 by the wishes of her family who wanted to keep her memories alive, frozen in time. But there is not only a mystery of who and where this photo was taken but whether it was 1850s and whether she was dying or already dead when taken

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#45 Special Donkey Transport For Two Victorian Babies . Unknown Location And Photographer. Circa Late 1890s To 1900s

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#46 Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934), Miss N (Portrait Of Evelyn Nesbit) - 1903

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#47 Construction Of The Statue Of Liberty In France About 1885

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#48 Curious Outfit, Rullatyttö, 1894, Kuopio , Finland

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#49 Four Ladies Going For A Stroll In Budapest, Hungary Circa 1900

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#50 Mathilde Weil. Portrait Of Of Rosa Rosarum, 1901. Mathilde Was An American Editor, Literary Agent, And Portrait Photographer Based In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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#51 Victorian Gramps Playing With A Few Of His Grandchildren C 1890s

Image has also been compared to Krampus: the old man was some sort of fear figure used by parents to discipline/put the fear in their unruly children. He came by the house and put naughty children in his bin and pretended to carry them off, usually around Xmas time. A tradition in Germany and neighbouring countries

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#52 Phyllis Monkman (1892-1976), Actress And Dancer In “The Butterflies” By Foulsham. C.1910

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#53 Fancy Dress Ready For A Ball, In Russia, Circa 1886

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#54 A Couple Of Vintage Clowns Having A Singalongadoo C1905. Published By Albert Bergeret & Cie, Nancy, France

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#55 Portrait Of Young Lady Reading A Book In Copenhagen, Denmark Circa 1905 Taken By Niels Fischer

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#56 Young Man Wearing Takypod Roller Skates

The Takypod is a machine driven by pedaling, but unlike a bicycle the rider sits on, takypods are attached to the feet. The inventor was Edward Petrini. From the George Grantham Bain Collection November 8, 1910

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#57 The Gardener’s Daughter (Mary Ryan), 1870, From Julia Margaret Cameron’s “Women” Series

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#58 Geisha Girls As A Femme And Her Mr. Dandy | Found In An Old Shoebox In Japan In The 2000s, With Other Photos From The Late-Meiji And Early-Taisho Era 1910s

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#59 Interior Of A Lounge Car Of The Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Montréal, Circa 1884

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#60 Stylish Edwardian Couple Taking Their Pup For A Walk In New York Circa 1900s

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#61 Daguerreotype Photo Of A Victorian Family At Play C1850s

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#62 The Actress Stephanie Stephens Playing The Title Role In A Revival Of J.m. Barrie's Play Peter Pan. Circa 1906

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#63 Naughty But Nice Risqué Edwardian Era Pose Of Young Woman From A French Postcard Circa 1910s

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#64 Samurai In Yokohama Japan, By Photographer Felice Beato, 1864–65, Metropolitan Museum Of Art: Photography

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#65 Cabinet Card Portrait Of Lady Edna Clarke Hall, Taken By John Caswall Smith At The Gainsborough Studio, London - Circa 1895

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#66 Group Of Plaistow Children, London Circa 1904

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#67 Victorian / Edwardian Era Lady With An Unusual Pose For The Time Circa Early 1900 S

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#68 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. With Eli Yale, A Hyacinth Macaw, In The White House Conservatory. 1902

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#69 Unidentified Woman Standing Outside With Her Cat In Her Arms, Ca. 1905-1910. Photographer: Jessie Tarbox Beals

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#70 Two College Students In Their Dorm Room At The University Of Illinois, 1910

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#71 Actress Sarah Bernhardt In The Living Room Of Her Mansion House In Paris On 27th February 1896 By French Photographer Paul Nadar, From Ministere De La Culture

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#72 Evelyn Nesbit, Famous Edwardian American Actress. Photographed By Otto Sarony Circa 1901

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#73 Portrait Of Eva Palmer Sikelianos, Taken Circa 1907. She Was A Prominent Figure In The Movement Toward Reviving Ancient Greek Artistic And Cultural Practices During The Early Twentieth Century

Sikelianos is remembered for her love of Greece and her decision to embrace a lifestyle that mirrored the country’s ancient history. A New York debutante, she studied ancient Greek and Latin briefly at Bryn Mawr College but left school to pursue an unconventional artistic life. She became a crucial member of the lesbian circle of Natalie Clifford Barney but then moved to Greece and married Angelos Sikelianos

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#74 A Victorian Stroll In The Park During The Paris Exposition / World Fair C. 1900

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#75 A Mother And Her 2 Children With Their Belongings Turfed Out Into The Street In East London In 1890 Because They Hadn’t Paid The Rent. They Were Later Saved By The Charity Dr Bernardo’s

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#76 Couple Posing With An Ostrich In Paris Circa 1910

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#77 Portrait Of Actress Fern Andra. Taken Late 1910s

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#78 More Naughty But Nice French Postcard Of Edwardian Era Lady Risqué At Time

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#79 Tourists Peer Over A Cliff Into The Grand Canyon, Circa 1880

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#80 A Victorian Stereo-View Card Entitled “The Night Before Christmas” Circa 1898

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#81 Victorian Portrait Of Unknown Woman Posing With Her Dog Outside Her Home, Believed To Be Part Of Collection Of East- Enders Of London In 1880 - 1890s

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#82 This Is Dowager Empress Marija Fjodorovna Of Russia (Or Princess Dagmar In Denmark) And Queen Alexandra Of The United Kingdom At Their Home Hvidøre In Denmark Which They Didn't Acquire Until 1906. Photo Possibly Late 1900s

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#83 Bizarre Grus Vom Krampus, Postcard, Circa 1900. Possible From Germany Or Austria

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#84 The Parting Of Lancelot And Guinevere By Julia Margaret Cameron, Metropolitan Museum Of Art: Photography C. 1874

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#85 Victorian Stereograph Card Photo Of A Couple Giving Little Albert A Bath In Their Casserole Pot! Circa 1860s

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#86 Classic Victorian French Postcard For Halloween Of Witch Circa 1890s

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#87 Air Balloons, Paris, 1914. Auto-Chrome

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#88 Edwardian Exotic Dancer From The 1900s Entertaining Ladies And Gentlemen Alike

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#89 Edwardian Era French Postcard Of Young Lady Posing In Her Undergarments Considered Risqué At The Time

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#90 A Couple Of Tall Edwardian Ladies ( Possibly Sisters) Wearing The Latest Finery Of That Period: Les Modes (Paris) April 1909 “Promenade Toilet And Shopping Dress By Bernard”. Circa 1910

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#91 Edwardian Chap Having A “Chill Out” Beside His Hookah Pipe! Caption Below Reads: “When Bachelors Dens Cast Over Waking Hours A Loneliness So Deep” Circa Late 1900s

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#92 An Unknown Group Of Women, Possible Friends Or Fellow Students Pose For An Undated Photograph, With One Clearly Keen To Show Of Her Chunky Hairbrush. Possibly Late 1890s To 1900

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#93 A Young Lady Posing In Croydon Road, Caterham, England Circa 1894

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#94 Autochrome Picture Of Lady Chilling In The Meadows By Paul Bergson C 1910

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#95 Postcard Of Victorian Lady In A Risqué And Provocative Pose In The Bath. Circa Late 1890s

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#96 “Toast To The Bride” Unknown Photographer C. 1905

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#97 Publicity Studio Shot Of Nadar With His Wife, Ernestine, In A Balloon Ca. 1865, Printed 1890s

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#98 “Osborne Auto Party”: A Group Of Ladies Riding In A Thomas Flyer In 643 East 100 South. Salt Lake Ciry, Utah, 7th April 1909

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#99 Jane Morris Posing In The Garden Of The House Of Rossetti. Photographed By John Robert Parsons, Summer 1865

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#100 "Four Dancing Figures" Photographed By Benjamin Johnston, Circa 1915

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#101 Portrait Of Ginette Lantelme, Was A French Stage Actress, Socialite, Fashion Icon, And Courtesan

Considered by her contemporaries to be one of the most beautiful women of the Belle Époque. This picture was taken in 1910. Sadly she died the following year: In early July 1911, Lantelme, her husband Edwards, and a few of their friends boarded Edwards’ yacht, L’Aimée. On the night of July 24/25, Lantelme disappeared, and a few days later her body was discovered in the waters of the Rhine River. The official verdict was that the actress had drowned as the result of a tragic accident. Lantelme was also most likely under the influence of cocaine at the time of her death. However, many people speculated that Edwards had murdered his wife, though never proven

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#102 Wittelsbach Sisters : Queen Elisabeth Of Belgium (Seated) Posing With Her Sisters, Crownprincess Marie Gabrielle Of Bavaria (Standing Left) And Sophie,countess Zu Toerring Jettenbach (Standing Right). They Three Were Daughters Of Carl Theodor, Duke In Bavaria And His Second Spouse, Maria Jose, Neé Infanta Of Portugal. Circa 1900s

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#103 Water Lilies In Tower Grove Park, St Louis, Missouri C 1901

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#104 Sir Walter Raleigh's House At Blackwall, London. The House Was Demolished During Construction Of The Blackwall Tunnel. Circa Approx 1890

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#105 Bitter Sweet Symphony. A Young Victorian/ Edwardian Girl Heading Up A Sidewalk In Notting Hill, Photographed By Edward Linley Sambourne, London Circa 1906

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#106 Rppc, Early 1900s, Production Of A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Featuring Nick Bottom Transformed

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#107 Two Girls Under A Christmas Tree With Their Dolls, On Christmas Day Circa 1899

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#108 Portrait Of ‘Woman With Lily’ Circa 1903 By Eva Watson-Schütze

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#109 Edwardian Era Woman Posing Ballerina Style In Her Undergarments, Most Likely On Popular French Postcard C 1900s

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#110 Early Autochrome Picture Of A Family On The Beach In France Circa 1910s

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#111 Very Early Victorian Photo, Taken C 1847 At Greyfriars Cemetery In Edinburgh. No Idea What That Chap Is Doing On The Left!

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#112 Stage Actress Betty Lindley, Bassano Studio, 1914, National Portrait Gallery

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#113 The Nap. German Cabinet Card Composition ‘Frede Schlafend Auf Der Terasse No 165’ Circa 1900s

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#114 Ulia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), “So Like A Shatter’d Column Lay The King”, 1875, Albumen Silver Print

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#115 Susannah Graham Menzies (Née Wilson, Later Lady Holford) As Titania, Queen Of The Fairies, By Alice Hughes, Photogravure, 1897

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#116 Portrait Of Woman At Her Spinning Wheel, Titled “Spinning” By Emilie V. Clarkson⁣, New York, Circa 1901

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#117 Portrait Composition Entitled “Fear” By Fear, Henry Peach Robinson, Ca. 1860

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#118 1915 A Kodak Girl From Their Catalog, Kodaks And Supplies

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#119 Mullen's Alley, Cherry Hill. New York, Circa 1888. By Jacob Riis

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#120 Front Page Of The Illustrated London News January 22nd 1901. “Queen Victoria Died, Surrounded By Her Family, At The Osborne House On The Isle Of Wight At 6:30pm”

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#121 Oscar Gustave Rejlander :: Grief, 1864 (Seated Woman With Long Hair, Head Bowed On Her Arms And Her Face Hidden)

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#122 Hand-Coloured Daguerreotype Portrait Of Unknown Family Portrait C1850

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#123 Actress Mabel Amber (As Ophelia) In The Stage Production Of Hamlet, By Sarony And Co, Circa 1880s: The Billy Rose Theatre Division Of The New York Public Library

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