Victorian pictures

Brooke Shields was born on May 31, 1965, in New York City, to Terri and Frank Shields. Her father was a Revlon executive and her mother a mo...

Many perceive the Victorian era as boring, ugly, and overly serious. The women stayed at home, wrapped in confining corsets hidden beneath ...

If you've ever looked at pictures from the Victorian era then you've probably noticed that nobody is smiling. Everybody looks so serious that it seems as if people in the 1800s simply didn't know how to have fun. But as these pictures prove, that wasn't always the case.

See a wonderful collection of Vintage Family Images! Old Family Photos, Fancy Family Illustration, Family Silhouettes, Retro Family Image.

When looking at the majority of historical photos, it might seem that the world was black-and-white and all we had were wars and disease.

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Julia Margaret Cameron, The Gardener Daughter, 1873

From the African Choir posing like Vogue models to an Abyssinian prince adopted by an explorer, a new exhibition spotlights the first black people ever photographed in Britain, writes Sean O’Hagan

In the nineteenth century, a morbid and curious custom has spread to various parts of the world: the photos were ”Post Mortem”. ”Post Mortem” comes from Latin, meaning after death. The...

Found a bunch of pictures of Victorian-era female archers. Thought I'd share.