Victorian Prudes

A well-turned ankle, a sight to behold

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Friends (1870s)

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Royal Relatives (1870s)

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A beautiful image of Grand duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna (right) with cousin, Princess Marie of Greece, later Grand duchess Maria Georgievna. Late 1880s.

Image courtesy of Veronica from “H&V” boards   a member of a Vk Group about the Romanovs. Thanks you!!!

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ca. 1860-70’s, [tintype portrait of two women posed with a camera box]

via Cowan’s Auctions

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Tintype of Five Young Ladies “Little Maids All in a Row” by Photo_History - Here but not Happy on Flickr.

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Szembekötősdi | blind man’s buff by Csoszi on Flickr.

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Group of Yogis. Colin Murray for Bourne & Shepherd, ca. 1880s. This photo exoticized yogis for westerners.

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Victorian children playing. 1890s.

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Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna, later Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Fancy sisters (1870s-80s)

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1850s Family by LJMcK on Flickr.

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ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of Merinda Lufkin and two other women standing with fans], Kenney Brothers Art Studio

via Harvard University, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Part of the Izetta Jewel Papers, 1852-1978 

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~ Road Book of Boston and Vicinity for Bicyclers, Riders and Drivers, Charles A. Underwood, ed., 1893 "It is not advisable to wear a bustle."

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Dans le brouillard  par Amélie Galup , 1898 .

Via

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ca. 1896, “Pearl and Diane with their bicycles, August 1896,” [cabinet card, portrait of two young ladies with their bikes]

via KaufmaNelson Vintage Photographs

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ca. 1880, [carte de viste portrait of Zumigo, side show performer, in fancy dress], Chas. Eisenmann

via Yale University’s Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection

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ca. 1860-70s, [hand tinted ambrotype  portrait of a women with her nine-string bango]

via Yale University’s Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection