Harryhenry

The personal non-professional Tumblr of a random 26-year old from New Zealand, who reblogs what he likes (and sometimes, stuff that he doesn't like), and occasionally posts random thoughts. Feel free to follow my other blog, old-schoolyoutube!

[simena]

JOHN HAYNES WILLIAMS - A sleeping beauty (detail)

[whartonists]

1897

[mildmayfoxe]

"Wheeler & Wilson's High-Arm New Number Nine is the only perfect sewing machine for family use." sewing machine advertising card, circa 1870-1900. from digital commonwealth

[recolored-classics]

Lunar night (1899) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[expressions-of-nature]

Autumn vs. Spring by Damien Cyfka

[from-a-spiders-web]

The Four Seasons | 1896 Alfons Mucha

[pompeianred]

Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux, 1881 James McNeill Whistler

[pompeianred]

The Four Seasons | 1877 Alfred Stevens

[pompeianred]

Portrait of Christine du Tour van Bellinchave - c. 1893 (pastel, damaged by a German shell fragment in 1914) by Jacques de Lalaing (1858-1917)

[fillingthesoulwithbeauty]

[a-perfect-parisian-day]

Françoise Dorléac in The Young Girls of Rochefort, 1967

[fashionsfromhistory]

Parasol

Dupuy

1890s

MET

[my-place-of-recovery]

♥

[mostbeautifulgirlscaps]

[voguefashion]

"A Grim Fairytale" — Lucy Ferry, Damian Fraser, Lady Antonia Fraser, Cecila Chancellor, Christina Loder, and Lady Vivian Haig, photographed by Deborah Turbeville for Vanity Fair, December 1984.

[most-beautiful-girls-pics]

most-beautiful-girls-pics

[porcelainapparition]

Garfield, Washington

circa 1904

[omgthatdress]

Miss Kate Fearing Strong at the Vanderbilt Ball, 1883

[marzipanandminutiae]

(her nickname was "Puss," hence the costume and the jeweled collar. yes that is a taxidermied cat head- there were also seven cat tails on her skirt)

[mudwerks]

(via vintagephoto: Actress and pet. 1880s.)

[marzipanandminutiae]

oh to be in a formal gown holding a cat