elasticcamel space

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Noah's Ark Miniature Play Set - Marx Toys (c. 1965)

[horsefigureoftheday]

Happy pride to these gay lions, deer, and ostriches

[wtffundiefamilies]

I hope everyone's had a terrific Pride month!

[sonshine-arts]

under the sea 🐟 𓆝 ⋆.

[victoriansvilevictorians]

A long piece on the early days of the British Museum Reading Room, a free read at https://www.patreon.com/posts/possibly-not-in-73156626

“Leaving aside the sombre magnificence of the building, the British Museum embodies so much of the quintessence of Britishness: reverence for the past, scholarship, disregard for the property rights of anyone foreign…. And at the heart of it, famously accommodating beneath its dome, free of charge, writers as diverse as Carlyle, Marx and Wilde, the British Museum Reading Room.”

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Maude Adams as Napoleon ll in L'Aiglon (1901-02)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Helen Wyville, c. 1897

via photo collections of vintage finds on pinterest

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo (1884)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Hester Trott and four women (1899). The website believes Hester is the second from the left

via historyinphotos

[roses--and--rue]

An intensely inspiring image of 4 women performing some kind of classical tableau.

Cabinet card circa 1880s-18890s

Cornell & Saunders, Rochester, NY.

From the collection of Susan Higginbotham, shared with permission.

[canberramaidan]

'Cats do whatever they wish, whenever they wish it.'

The Landowner's Secret (HarperCollins) by Sonya Heaney.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Mrs. P. S. Talbert

via photo collections of vintage finds on pinterest

[pawoooon]

Me and the girls this summer.

Photos circa 1898

[remainsoflilies]

"Jane Morris, posed by [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti"

Photographed by John R. Parsons, 1865, London.

[ghostlytales]

Vintage Seance Spiritualism Photo

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Persian cat, circa 1880.

[la-belle-histoire]

Mme. G.F. Murray (Montreal, QC). William Notman & Son. 1886.

[remainsoflilies]

"Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments while studying science in school, Washington, D.C."

Photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899.

[frostedmagnolias]

May Day

Photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron

1866