The Victorian era gave us many great inventions that we still use today - bicycles, Morse code, ice cream as we know it, and even the telephone. The era of Queen Victoria's reign, though, had some pretty bizarre happenings too. Such as ladies getting stuck in doorways because of their extra big dress skirts and constantly fainting as a result of very tight corsets. Also, the London fog did exist, and it comprised of nothing else than heavy pollution from coal mines and the city being in regular fires. Victorians were oddly obsessed with Egyptology and makeup, especially lipstick, which was compared to witchcraft. To add even more fun to the mix, the social rules and behavior codes were amazingly strict.

Spooky Victorian Spirit Photography.

Victorian London's most celebrated cross-dressing duo take the stage – and the stand – again

A fashionable woman holding a parasol poses for her photograph at the Poole studio in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is wearing a lot of jewelry; her earrings, collar pin, ring, and a chain o…

1890s fashion by Atelier Nadar

photographer: Gondy & Egey - Debrecen - Hungary Gondy Károly (1830 -1909) és Egey István (1828 - 1895) www.flickr.com/photos/34646596@N02/3229109884/

[ATTACH] The first documented, white wedding dress was worn in 14o6. Philippa of England wore white as a squirrel-and ermine lined, white silk tunic....

Offering a new Fine Art quality print of this autochrome photo of a French Women in a Window, Paris, 1900s. This is a high quality reprint, unframed, approximately 8x10" on 8 1/2x11" archival fine art paper, suitable for matting, framing and display. The Autochrome Lumière is an early color photography process. Patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907, it was the principal color photography process in use before the advent of subtractive color film in the mid-1930s. From the Fine Art Los Angeles Early Masters Collection, a unique group of fine art photos from the pioneers of photography. Your print will not have a watermark and will be shipped safely in a rigid photo mailer for its protection. FREE SHIPPING in the U.S. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. Enjoy! International buyers, each additional print in the same order adds only $1 to postage.

Around 1870, the Second Industrial Revolution was underway, and America was in the middle of great change.

The salt print was the dominant paper-based photographic process for producing positive prints during the period from 1839 through approximately 1860. The salted paper technique was created in 1833 by English scientist and inventor Henry Fox Talbot. He made what he called "sensitive paper" for "photogenic drawing" by wetting a sheet of writing paper with a weak solution of ordinary table salt (sodium chloride), blotting and drying it, then brushing one side with a strong solution of silver nitrate. Here is a rare photo collection of salted paper prints that shows everyday life of the United Kingdom from the 1840s to 1850s. Broad Gauge Railway, Sidmouth, Devon, 1856 Church, Glouchestershire, 1857 Country church, ca. 1850 Country house, 1855 Excavation site, ca. 1850 Family group at church, 1854 Family group study, 1850 Farmyard at Stoke Castle, 1850 Glouchestershire Church, 1857 Hewell Grange, Worcestershire, ca. 1950 Lincoln Gateway, ca. 1850 Marine Parade, Worthing, 1850 Mary Le Port Street, Bristol, 1854 Men by church, 1850 Nelson's Column under construction, Trafalgar Square, London, April 1844 Nene Quay, behind the old market, Wisbech, 1853 Officers of the 4th Light Dragoons, 1855 Peterborough Cathedral, 1850 Queens Gate Lodge, London, 1850 Sailor on board HMS Superb, Plymouth, 1845 Scotish women reading and knitting, ca. 1950 Siston Court, Gloucestershire, 1857 The Sea House Hotel, Worthing, 1850 Tintern Abbey from the Road, June, 1856 Tree Study, 1853 Tree Study, 1858 Ven House, Milborn Port, South Somerset, 1850 Wakehurst Place, West Sussex, 1855 Walkingham Church, 1845 Winchelsea, 1854 (Photos from The History of Photography Archive)

Photo of Lina Abarbanell, ca 1890's Berlin

Henry Peach Robinson On the Hill-Top, 1869 Albumen print From Henry Peach Robinson: Master of Photographic Art 1830-1901

The series of stunning photographs show a young couple dressed in opulent clothing, teenage girls with their hair in ringlets and children all with a solemn look on their faces.

Evening gown, 1890s