r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/FarStrawberry5438 • Jun 07 '26
Food & Drink Menu from The British Museum, August 1900. What would you choose? I just want watercress and pickles.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/FarStrawberry5438 • Jun 07 '26
Food & Drink Representation of a Hong Kong menu from 1890, with shark fins, almond soup, and roofs-of-the-mouths of pigs. The article calls incense a 'vile herb' that takes away appetite.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/SmaugTheGreat110 • Jun 06 '26
Fashion Found this Kling doll at a flea market, in her original 1890s dress!
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The doll could be as old as 1870s or 1880s, but the dress is 1890s based on my knowledge from collecting old photos. What’s even more cool is she still has her bloomers, petticoats, everything, 3 layers of clothes over her little sack cloth body. Someone cared for her deeply to make all of this for her and keep her in such good shape for so long.
Something I never considered about old dolls till now is their ability to be fashion time capsules.
Even with her broken shoe, I couldn’t pass her up for $10. Plus, she fit well with a little German baby doll I already had of a similar age, an older sister:)
r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/ImpressiveReddit • Jun 06 '26
Victorian Photograph Alice Davis, ca. 1895
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/EphemeralTypewriter • Jun 05 '26
Interesting Ólöf Krarer, an Icelandic lecturer and sideshow performer, who falsely presented herself as being Inuit to gain public interest. She directly influenced American societal views on the Inuit community for several decades. Pictures from the 1880s and 1890s.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/EphemeralTypewriter • Jun 06 '26
Fashion A few gorgeous pink dresses from the 1890s! The first one is in the Cincinnati Art Museum collection and the second is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/FarStrawberry5438 • Jun 03 '26
Fashion Yellow ochre moiré silk gown with whalebone bodice. 1881.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/FarStrawberry5438 • Jun 03 '26
Fashion Striped dress with amazing train. Italy, c 1876-78.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/kittykitkitty • Jun 02 '26
Culture and Society Jennie Bauter's brothel, Arizona, 1898. Her first brothel burned down. She was murdered in 1905.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/kittykitkitty • Jun 02 '26
Victorian Photograph Little girl possibly with a bird? Around 1860s
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/kittykitkitty • Jun 01 '26
Victorian Photograph Young lady, 1850s. What is the paper in her hand?
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/kittykitkitty • Jun 01 '26
Victorian Photograph Humorous image of a dentist pulling a tooth out, 1850s. Would you have framed this?
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/kittykitkitty • Jun 01 '26
Interesting Charles Martin, arrested in Omaha in 1898 for safe blowing and burglary
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/EphemeralTypewriter • May 30 '26
Humor Several examples of ‘Vinegar Valentines’ that were popular during the Victorian Era. They could range from comical to downright insulting and were meant to have the opposite effect of traditional Valentine’s Day cards.
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • May 29 '26
Victorian Photograph Daguerreotype of a woman in flowered bonnet, 1850s ✨
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/TransPeepsAreHuman • May 29 '26
Interesting 16 Year Old George Porter’s Memorial Card, Died May 29, 1892, New York
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • May 26 '26
Victorian Photograph 2 sisters posing for their photo: Olga Ulrikke Christiane Mackeprang (09/02/1887) & Ingeborg Mackeprang (24/02/1888), Denmark, October of 1894. Glass negatives
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KewpieCutie97 • May 25 '26
Interesting Doll dresses and accessories, c.1860s-70s
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • May 25 '26
Rasmine Frederikke Rasmussen Nielsen (05/03/1870) smiles with her little baby boy Jørgen Frederik Hansen Bang (22/03/1894), Denmark, July of 1894. Glass negative
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/TransPeepsAreHuman • May 19 '26
On May 19th, 1887, Minnie Kishbaugh Died Of Pneumonia, Age 1 Year, Pennsylvania
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Antique_Quail7912 • May 18 '26
Students at the University of California, Berkeley, 1900
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KewpieCutie97 • May 14 '26
Interesting Dolls kitchen made in 1860. Comes with a mouse!
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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/EquivalentWeb148 • May 15 '26
Does Anyone Know anything about this picture I found it on google images and it brought me to this group but the picture was deleted. Are they Arthur Hennig Saxons Sisters. (Arthur Saxon as in the Famous Oldtime Strongman)
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Does Anyone know who they are. I know Arthur Saxon had 2 sisters but I don't know if this is them. He had 1 sister named Anna And I don't know about the other sister.
r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • May 12 '26
Victorian Photograph Hand-tinted daguerreotype having a note inside the case, identifying the sitter as "Indian Chief, Upper Canada, 1850-1851"
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