Ladies' Companion, January 1858. LAPL Visual Collections.
Published in The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons: Vol XV Jan to Dec 1838, by Mr Bell, the Strand, London
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In the Victorian era, a woman’s hair was often thought to be one of her most valuable assets. Styles varied quite a bit throughout the nearly 7 decades of Queen Victoria’s reign, with everything fr…
Curator Janet Boston shares the difficult histories of the beautifully crafted Asian arms and armour collection at Manchester Art Gallery.
Dress worn by Queen Victoria to the 1851 Stewart Ball, England.
The book, Street Life in London, shows how ordinary Londoners lived towards the end of the 19th century. Compiled by Scottish photograph pioneer John Thomson and radical journalist Adolphe Smith
As part of the £12m revamp of Kensington Palace recently unveiled, a new permanent exhibition explores the life and reign of one of the palace’s…
Another of my long-term projects has gotten to a point that it's worth posting a midstream overview: 1830's hats & hairdos! I'm doing this project in tandem with our wig master, Jaime Blinn-Bagley. Jaime is giving a guest lecture on lace-backed facial hair and hand-ventilated lace-front wigs to my…
Victorian Hairstyles 1830-1890 1830 was around the time that Victoria took to the throne as the Queen of England at just the young age ...
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Queen Mother Victoria. This picture was cut out and pasted to the back of an engraving of Millard Fillmore in a copy of Godey's Lady's Book, March 1884. I don't know if it had originally come from that issue of the magazine or not, but it does look like a typical Godey's print.
