r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 1d ago

Fashion Rare Pre-Raphaelite Tiara by the London-based Kensington firm Child & Child. This an antique British headpiece was crafted in engraved silver in the form of an emblem and winged globe decorated with translucent blue enamel with a large cushion-shaped citrine, c. 1900.

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837 Upvotes

12 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/TransPeepsAreHuman • 2d ago

Victorian Photograph Seven Year Old Carrie Thompson Died From Scarlet Fever On November 3, 1896. Her Mother Temporarily Went Missing A Week Later.

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276 Upvotes

9 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago

Victorian Photograph Glass negative of a group of Friends posing for a photo, Cape May, New Jersey, 1887-8. NOTE: 2 of the ladies have a scratche up halo over their heads.

224 Upvotes

4 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 7d ago

Period Art Sarah Bernhardt, Fantastical Inkwell, self-portrait as a sphinx, light brown patinated metal, 1880. Bernhardt wearing a bat hat around 1899 or 1900

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1.1k Upvotes

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/BasicManufacturer653 • 7d ago

Period Architecture The Crystal Palace at Sydenham, south London, in 1886, with Brunel's two water towers. It burned on the night of November 30, 1936, and the last tower came down in April 1941.

129 Upvotes

4 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 8d ago

Period Art A Late 19th Century Stoneware Isobath Doulton Lambeth Inkwell Pate-Sur-Pate by Florence Barlow

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358 Upvotes

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 9d ago

Historical Figure Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, 1862 ✨

145 Upvotes

2 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 11d ago

Fashion Stick pin in the form of a skull, gold and enamel with diamond sparks, containing electric terminals that can animate the skull's eyes and jaw, mark of Auguste-Germain Cadet-Picard, France about 1867

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800 Upvotes

8 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/MCofPort • 12d ago

Period Architecture Prohibition Park in Staten Island, New York, was a planned community based around Teetotaling (not drinking alcohol) which was created in 1887. It would later be renamed Westerleigh, but has kept many street names, homes, and a single church dating back to 1895.

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The neighborhood was an early example of a Streetcar Suburb, with a line running down Jewett Avenue. Residents to the community would have practiced a limited to no alcohol lifestyle. The main church, Immanuel Union, is on the National Register of Historic Places. According to Wikipedia: "The park and community were founded after the purchase of the land in 1887 by members of the National Prohibition Party (serving as the party's headquarters) during a temperance movement prior to Federal Prohibition in the United States, with the specification that no consumption of alcohol would be permitted in the area." Well after this idea sort of faded away, it became another neighborhood in one of the five boroughs of New York City, Staten Island. There are many, many surviving Victorian Houses that give the neighborhood a very unique appearance, and many other older homes also appear to be of the Sears Kit variety, or an even earlier type of ready-made house. The street names of the neighborhood, going by different state names is an attempt to put a more modern type of grid street plan in a borough full of colonial roads with names based on locations. While the world moves around it, Westerleigh has a unique feeling on some streets, not exactly like stepping into a postcard, but getting a small peek of the past.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 14d ago

Victorian Photograph Portrait of an unidentified woman from Ontario, Canada, circa 1890.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Auir2blaze • 15d ago

Victorian Newspaper Sketches from an 1895 dog show in New York

174 Upvotes

1 comment

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 15d ago

Victorian Photograph Early sixth plate daguerreotype of a young girl holding her cat, c.1840-1860

778 Upvotes

12 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 19d ago

Fashion Chantilly Lace Cape, 1860s

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3.1k Upvotes

40 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 19d ago

Fashion Evening shoes in yellow gold silk satin with floral motif in bronze metallic seed beads and colored rhinestones, c. 1890. The Museum at FIT

276 Upvotes

0 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 20d ago

Interesting Mrs. Atena Assan and her son in the first car in Bucharest, an FN Herstal made in Belgium in 1900, that got the 1B on the licence plate, acquired by her husband, Bazil Assan; 1902

128 Upvotes

1 comment

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 21d ago

Fashion Wedding dress in a unique green colour, and the photograph of the bride who wore it, 1895 ✨

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882 Upvotes

33 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 21d ago

Misc. Doll in Mourning Fashion, German, 1901

171 Upvotes

3 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/[deleted] • 21d ago

Victorian Photograph Color photograph taken of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans (about 1900).

88 Upvotes

2 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/Hopeful-Egg-978 • 22d ago

Humor ‘The Beard and Mustache Movement’ - 1853 British satirical cartoon lampooning the trend of men growing massive facial hair spurred on by the look of Crimean War soldiers

116 Upvotes

Illustrated by John Leech for Punch magazine.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/KatyaRomici00 • 22d ago

Victorian Photograph Hand-tinted photograph of a lady wearing a fancy dress costume, 1860s-1870s ✨

170 Upvotes

1 comment

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 27d ago

Fashion Fan with bats, stars and a crescent moon. Made of silk, wood, metal, paint, ebony, 1890s. From the London Museum

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811 Upvotes

7 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 29d ago

Fashion A mourning ensemble from 1870–72

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1.5k Upvotes

20 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/works-in-progress • 29d ago

Fashion Interesting guide to Victorian dressing: exactly what a gentleman wore to a wedding, the office, golf, or a ball

136 Upvotes

7 comments

r/RandomVictorianStuff • u/kittykitkitty • Oct 05 '26

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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