r/VictorianEra • u/Sea-Nectarine1921 • 20h ago
Excerpts from the forewords of “War of the Worlds” (1898) and “Heart of Darkness” (1899).
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r/VictorianEra • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 8h ago
Glass negative of Julia Richardson of Junction City, Kansas, 1898.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 8h ago
Cabinet card of lady by the name Maud Wood, 1896.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Bamerhof99 • 10h ago
Big Nose George was a western outlaw and highwayman, after a failed escape attempt from jail he would be lynched by a mob in 1881. The physician John Eugene Osborne would use his skin to make a pair of shoes that he would later wear to his inauguration as Governor of Wyoming in 1893.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Antique_Quail7912 • 9h ago
English chemist William Henry Perkin’s photographic self portrait at age 14, 1852
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r/VictorianEra • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 8h ago
Mary Virginia King from her wedding day on June 14, 1887.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Chaninpogress • 2h ago
Beautiful lithographs
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Bought recently from charity shop