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A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 8, 2017

The Getty Center in Los Angeles opens the first survey of Thomas Annan, who photographed Glasgow during industrialization.

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Library of Congress Digitizes 19th-Century Photos of Black Women Activists

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 6, 2017May 23, 2022

The Library of Congress recently digitized rare 19th-century photographs of African American women active in suffrage, civil rights, temperance, education, reform, and journalism.

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Why Victorian Men Had Glorious Beards

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 15, 2017February 14, 2017

The Age of the Beard at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London examines through photographs the Victorian mania for elaborate facial hair.

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Watch the UK’s Oldest Known Erotic Film, a Victorian-Era Striptease

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 9, 2017

The British Film Institute’s newly digitized “The Pleasure Principle” collection gathers examples of erotic cinema from the 19th to 21st centuries.

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Why Frederick Douglass Was the Most Photographed 19th-Century American

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 6, 2017February 6, 2017

In a lifelong battle against racist imagery, Frederick Douglass had over 160 portraits taken, which he hoped would create a public acknowledgment of his humanity.

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Celebrate New Year’s with Vintage Cards of Lucky Pigs and Drunken Butterflies

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 2, 2017December 30, 2021

Celebrate the New Year with these 19th and early 20th-century postcards, featuring lucky pigs, pensive pansies, and menacing snowmen.

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Why Are There Dead Birds on Victorian Christmas Cards?

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 16, 2016July 13, 2022

One of the more curious recurring images on 19th-century Christmas cards is the dead bird, which may symbolize mortality or something more ritualistic.

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How a Magician Preserved the Ephemera of Victorian Entertainment

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 17, 2016November 17, 2016

The British Library exhibits selections from its archive on Victorian entertainment, all collected by the 19th-century magician Evanion.

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Death by Wallpaper: The Alluring Arsenic Colors that Poisoned the Victorian Age

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 31, 2016June 11, 2021

Lucinda Hawksley’s book Bitten by Witch Fever chronicles the rise of poisonous pigments in the 19th century through the burgeoning British wallpaper trade.

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Victorian Scrapbooks of Flowers from the Holy Land

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 18, 2016August 21, 2016

In the 19th century, tourists who traveled through the Holy Land may have picked up scrapbooks of pressed flowers as souvenirs.

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The First Woman Photographer Captured the Elegance of Algae

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 24, 2016September 18, 2017

Algae is graceful and light in the ocean, swaying with the waves like hair in the wind.

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Digging Through Victorian Trash for Bone Toothbrushes and Broken Dolls

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 18, 2016March 18, 2016

“Rubbish doesn’t lie,” explained Tom Licence, a senior lecturer in history at England’s University of East Anglia who is behind What the Victorians Threw Away.

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