Victorian photography

Explore Turn of the century's 181 photos on Flickr!

Beautiful Victorian Young Lady. Personal collection of Luella aka Paris Frances

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Although fashion did not embrace the look of trousers on the female form until the late 20th century, history saw working women wearing them a hundred years prior. From Victorian coal miners who rolled up their skirts around their waist to reveal soot-covered pants underneath to today’s terrible backlash of factory-torn denim, spandex jeggings, and bedazzled bums, women’s pants have undergone quite a transformation. Let’s take a look at the early fashion of women’s pants from the festooned…

L-O-N-G Victorian Hair by Author Kristin Holt includes historic images of long-haired beauties, vintage newspaper ads, serums, potions from Victorian era.

American actress Maude Adams as Napoleon ll in L'Aiglon. Photographed in 1901.

Julia Stilley Lynn standing, and sister Hannah Stilley Willard. Mannsville, Oklahoma. Daughters of Alfred & Nancy Ann Stilley.

In the early 1860s, an American photographer named William Mumler developed some self-portraits, and was shocked to see a ghostly female figure ...

She is one of the most prolific photographers of the Victorian era, but much of her life remains a mystery. Clementina Maude, also known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, took up photography in 1857 and in seven years shot more than 800 images, mostly sun-drenched portraits of her daughters, from her hom

If you've ever looked at pictures from the Victorian era then you've probably noticed that nobody is smiling. Everybody looks so serious that it seems as if people in the 1800s simply didn't know how to have fun. But as these pictures prove, that wasn't always the case.