HistorynArchitecture

Images relating to history, architecture, arts and travels.

[fripperiesandfobs]

Paquin evening dress ca. 1895

From the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin via Europeana Fashion

[omgthatdress]

Dress

1810

Les Arts Décoratifs

[discardingimages]

stag and doe

Katherine Hours, France ca. 1480-1485

LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 6, fol. 27r

[the-traveling-gnomes]

*Aggressively plays organ*

[stereoculturesociety]

CultureIMAGES: The Northern Lights - Solar Storm - March 2015 

More pics from Buzzfeed here.

[fripperiesandfobs]

Day dress ca. 1910

From the Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti via Europeana Fashion

[dustjacket9999]

[classicalbritain]

early morning oxford | by ren hui yoong photography

[littlepawz]

[classicalbritain]

Natural History Museum, London

[sven-loach]

[classicalbritain]

Victorian Columns

[yanshee]

Alla Italia 12 by yanshee

[omgthatdress]

Ball Gown

Jacques Doucet, 1898-1902

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[edwardianpromenade]

— Little girl with her Saint Bernard, 1910s, postcard

[fripperiesandfobs]

Costume designed by Adrian for Frances Drake in It’s a Wonderful World (1939)

From the collection of Larry McQueen on Pinterest

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[flommus]

artishardgr :  Maurice Prendergast, After the Storm, circa.1906

[missfolly]

John Dawson Watson: In the Shallows, 1869

[beautifulcentury]

A dog who would prefer to be doing something else- found photo by Rescued by Rover on Flickr.

Found photo, printed on British regulation divided back postcard stock. No information known, the type of postcard stock suggests 1910s-1920s.

[ephemeral-elegance]

Beaded Tulle Evening Gown, ca. 1910s

Dauillet

via Hermitage Museum