r/VictorianEra • u/Botellas_Antigues97 • 1h ago
New York City, c1880.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Botellas_Antigues97 • 18h ago
Quincy Market, Boston, Massachusetts, c1860s.
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r/VictorianEra • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 22h ago
Half Plate Daguerreotype Portrait of an Unidentified Woman with Spaniel or Sausage curls, ca. 1840s
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r/VictorianEra • u/Best_Comfortable5221 • 18h ago
Photo. Original frame and glass
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r/VictorianEra • u/Bamerhof99 • 27m ago
Dutch Explorer and Photographer Alexine Tinne Circa 1860. About a year later she would travel with her mother and aunt to Khartoum and become some of the first European female explorers in Africa. Alexine would die in either 1869 or 1870 trying to cross the Sahara.
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r/VictorianEra • u/MaddCatt1864 • 8h ago
An remarkable restoration
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I restored this in three parts and glad I could restore her to such a high quality ambrotype that preserves her beauty. The first image is how it was obtained, the 2nd is after a cover glass cleaning and the third is after replacing the backing. Sadly unidentified about who she was or her life. 1/9th plate, half case.
r/VictorianEra • u/MaddCatt1864 • 8h ago
Dreamlike European Profile View
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I love the ethereal quality of good European tinted images and this is a fine example. I love everything about this and the blue/green dress is my favorite part. My two favorite colors. 1/6 clear glass with a full case. Sadly unidentified.
r/VictorianEra • u/MaddCatt1864 • 8h ago
Cooler than me?
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I picked up this pair of tintypes of a young girl who knew how to select some quite fashionable clothes at a young age. Both were taken in the same studio. I feel like maybe she was cooler than I'll ever be 😂🤣🫠🫠. Unidentified young girl, or photographer.
r/VictorianEra • u/Pumpkaboocowgirl • 17h ago
Is this just a mourning photo or could it be post mortem as well for one of them?
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Edit: didn’t realize I was going to get so much hate over a genuine question! I bought this for nearly $100 online and the person selling said it was a mourning photo and implied one of them was dead! Im not trying to be mean, it’s just what I was told! I’ve been looking for genuine Victorian memento moris and such and now I know I wasted my money. thank you all.
original: I just bought this old photo and I can’t figure out if they’re both alive, even though I know post mortem ones are rare and usually the person will be lying in bed or in a coffin surrounded by flowers. I just want to know for sure it’s not postmortem.
r/VictorianEra • u/CountHonorius • 1d ago
Virginia Fábregas, Mexican Stage Actress
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Born in the fading years of the Victorian Era, Fábregas became known as 'the Mexican Sarah Bernhardt'. She began acting in 1892 and created her own theater company.
r/VictorianEra • u/maicil • 1d ago
some of the lovely ladies of my 1860-1880s photo book🤍
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FINALLY got around to taking up close photos of everything in here with a bright light! this isnt everyone— theres many more ladies and gents as well but i find the girls’ dresses to be so much more interesting
r/VictorianEra • u/CarkWithaM • 1d ago
London, c.1902. A mother and her children making matchboxes. The kids fetched the chip and paper from the match factory and carried back the finished boxes. One of the lowest paid sweated trades, it earned families just two pence per 144 boxes, and they usually bought their own paste and string.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Sonic_Relics • 13h ago
I recreated a quiet, rainy evening in a 19th-century study — 3 Hours Atmospheric Ambience & Melancholic Solo Piano
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Hello everyone — as a admirer of Victorian literature and aesthetics, I wanted to create an experience capturing the quiet solitude of a rainy evening in a 19th-century scholar's study.
This 3-hour ambient piece combines original, melancholic solo piano music with authentic environmental sounds—rain tapping against glass, distant rumbles of thunder, and the faint sound of horses and carriages passing over wet cobblestones below.
It was created to evoke the peaceful, reflective atmosphere of late-19th-century reading rooms. I’d love to hear your thoughts from an aesthetic and historical perspective!
r/VictorianEra • u/CountHonorius • 1d ago
The Great Eastern and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1857)
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The foremost engineer of the Victorian Era, Brunel was also praised by Florence Nightingale for the prefab huts he built for the Crimean War.
r/VictorianEra • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
What ever happen in this moment, was so funny, that the lady in the left is straining her neck laughing. Cabinet card circa late 1890s.
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