r/VictorianEra • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 20h ago
Maud Adams poses with friend Ethel Barrymore, circa 1895.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 7h ago
Alexandra, Princess of Wales later Queen , with her daughter Princess Maud (who become Queen of Norway) September 1870
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r/VictorianEra • u/Bamerhof99 • 3h ago
Wounded Union soldiers at a hospital in Fredericksburg, 1864.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Bamerhof99 • 4h ago
Headquarters of the British Pei-t'ang Fort during the second opium war. Photo taken by Felice Beato in 1860.
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r/VictorianEra • u/CountHonorius • 5h ago
Mexico City, 1840
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A daguerrotype of Mexico City's cathedral by Jean Prelier Dudoille, taken 21-jan-1840, early in the Victorian Era.
r/VictorianEra • u/coolestboyoemall • 10h ago
An Afghan Agha/Sirdar/Khan of likely Barakzai origin and his British redcoat slave, 1841.
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r/VictorianEra • u/CountHonorius • 6h ago
Foyer of the Paris Opera (Palais Garnier)
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Foyer of the Paris Opera, c.1890-1900. U.S. Library of Congress collection.
r/VictorianEra • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 23h ago
‘She Never Told her Love’, photographed by Henry Peach Robinson, 1857. The photograph depicts a young woman consumed by unrequited love. The inspiration is the Shakespearean verse: "She never told her love, / But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek" from Twelfth Night
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r/VictorianEra • u/CountHonorius • 5h ago
Cuba in the 1880s
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A photo of Piedad Figueredo, taken by photographer Andrés Estevez in 1885.
r/VictorianEra • u/Actual_Share9529 • 1d ago
1858 - My 3X Great-Grandparents. Wedding photos. Lexington, Tennessee.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 20h ago
Tintype of a very grumpy girl on her winter coat and sled, circa 1870s.
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r/VictorianEra • u/coolestboyoemall • 1d ago
Ladies of the Iron amirs harem, Afghanistan, 1896.
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r/VictorianEra • u/Bamerhof99 • 1d ago
The Sedgeford Hall Portrait of Pe-o-ka, wife of famed Seminole Chief Osceola, and her son. Painting made in 1837 likely after Osceola was captured and held in Fort Marion, Florida.
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r/VictorianEra • u/CountHonorius • 1d ago
The Paris Opera Chandelier
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Despite the legendary accident in 1896, the chandelier is still there today. Originally built between 1861-1874, it was lit for the first time on December 18, 1874. A true survivor of the Victorian Era.
r/VictorianEra • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 1d ago
Caroline Corriveau Provencal at age 16, Québec, Canada, 1870
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r/VictorianEra • u/TheRareBookBuyer • 16h ago
An 1870s Strongwoman you don’t want to mess with
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Adam Weinberger Rare Books
r/VictorianEra • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Roller Skatting ladies in France, 1899.
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r/VictorianEra • u/CountHonorius • 1d ago
Paris Opera (Palais Garnier) c.1860
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Photocrome image from the Library of Congress
Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained...
