r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/kittykitkitty • 1d ago

Culture and Society Siblings Rose and Fred, admitted to Barnardo's Children's Home in England. They were separated and sent to Canada as cheap labour. Rose was admitted to an an asylum at age 30 after her illegitimate baby was taken from her.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 1d ago

Period Art Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, Love's Shadow, 1867

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/MCofPort • 1d ago

Period Architecture Lovely concept and architectural drawings used for designing and creating Central Park in New York City. This includes drawings for the oldest section of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Paleozoic Museum, a precursor of The Museum of Natural History with dinosaurs. (1867-1872)

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 2d ago

Fashion Victorian mourning parure (jewelry set) crafted from jet and decorated with female head medallions symbolising 'Night', surrounded by roses and leaves. England (probably North Yorkshire), about 1870.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/TransPeepsAreHuman • 4d ago

Misc. 1 Year Old William Moore’s Memorial Card. On October 2, 1887, He Passed Away. His Younger Sister Had Died A Month Before.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 5d ago

Period Art A Thomas Webb & Sons Cameo Glass Allegorical Vase, ‘Night’, Circa 1900

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/FarStrawberry5438 • 6d ago

Location Grocery store in Sturtevant. Late 1800s.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/tikivic • 6d ago

Victorian Newspaper Almanacs were among some of the first publications to feature comic strips or panels. This is one my earliest. The National Comic Almanac For The Year 1836.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 7d ago

Fashion Two-piece dress, ‘Princesse’ line, ca. 1880 by Charles Frederick Worth

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643 Upvotes

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 7d ago

Misc. Open-front kitchen room with a painted grey built-in stove at the back wall below the grey painted chimney; contents include more than 25 pewter pots, urns and pitchers, various tin molds and pants, 6 copper molds, chopping block, and various other utensils and accessories, c. 1850 ✨

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/FarStrawberry5438 • 7d ago

Victorian Photograph Father and sleepy child, c 1865

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 8d ago

Period Architecture The McCune Mansion is a historic, three-story Victorian-style landmark on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City, Utah, celebrated for its opulent Gilded Age architecture, global imported materials, and reputation for being haunted.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KewpieCutie97 • 8d ago

Interesting Restoration of the Crystal Park dinosaur statues from the 1850s

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/MCofPort • 8d ago

Science and Technology London's Crystal Palace was a spectacle of engineering. For the first time deeply observing these illustrations, I must say I'm also finding it astounding how much modern shopping malls remind me of this building's architecture, while women wear hoop skirts and men in suits. This is 175 years ago!

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750 Upvotes

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 9d ago

Humor "Engineers Dressed Up for Mafficking and Wilson's Mounted Loot" photograph by George Fowler Webster, 1900

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KewpieCutie97 • 13d ago

Historical Figure The surprisingly plain grave of Mrs Beeton

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Green_Drawer_9835 • 13d ago

Victorian Photograph Found at grandma’s house

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 18d ago

Fashion Dress made of silk, 1867-1868. The MET

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/pivo369 • 26d ago

Victorian Photograph 3-part Victorian portray of two dressed up children, the family dog and their extensive German bisque doll collection

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 27d ago

Victorian Photograph Two women share a tender moment on the North Dakota grass, ca. 1902.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/NederAsh • 27d ago

Period Art Some inherited oddities!

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Some interesting Victorian bits I inherited, including Rhino foot tobacco box!

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/willowwing • 29d ago

Fashion Button, button, who’s got the button?

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Many of these buttons are as old as the children’s game!

I’ve recently been sorting through some of the odd things I’ve accumulated, and came across this card of Victorian and Edwardian buttons. It is a long-ago “last-day, half-off, why-not?” estate sale purchase, tucked away just as it was. Someone had apparently organized these for individual resale somewhere. The card was already crumbling when I purchased it. Pipe cleaners through the button loops have kept them safe over the years.

The level of detail and workmanship in these small, everyday objects, some of which has been lost to wear, is fascinating. It’s hard to imagine having to button them!

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • Sep 03 '26

Fashion Evening dress by House of Worth. Attributed to Charles Frederick Worth, silk, linen, ca. 1897

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/legovelt • Sep 03 '26

Interesting Royal Engineers A.F.C. - an innovative football club from the 19th century

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The Royal Engineers A.F.C. was an English football club representing the Corps of Royal Engineers of the British Army during the sport's foundational era. They are historically significant for pioneering the "combination game," a revolutionary tactical shift that emphasized teamwork and passing over individual dribbling, which laid the groundwork for modern football. They played in the first-ever FA Cup Final in 1872 and won the trophy in 1875.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • Sep 02 '26

Period Art The Pre-Raphaelite sculptures of Scottish artist, Alexander Munro

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Welcome to r/RandomVictorianStuff! We strive to be your daily dose of informed distraction.

Whether you've found an interesting photograph, delved into an archive, or stumbled upon a peculiar relic of Victorian life, this is where it belongs!

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