The Fighting Temeraire, or Everything 19th Century

calledback:

The Newlyweds 
c.1860’s
U.S

(via fuckyeahvictorians)

19thcentury:

Viktor Oliva, The Absinthe Drinker, ca 1890, Cafe Slavia in Prague

missfolly:

The Gilded Dome, Spring, by John Leslie Brec, 1893-1894

1850-1930:

London in the late 1880s 

(Source: hayir)

agoniada:

Football Player, 1870s by glen.h on Flickr.

(Source: mujersincabeza)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1861, [Memorial portrait of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth]

Like many Americans, Lincoln lost loved ones in the Civil War. The death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth on May 24, 1861, was particularly painful, as he and his wife, Mary, looked upon the young man as another son. Lincoln ordered Ellsworth’s funeral to be held at the White House; during the service, Mrs. Lincoln placed this commemorative portrait on his casket. As the first Union army officer to be killed in the war, Ellsworth became a national hero.

via the Chicago History Museum, Abraham Lincoln Transformed collection on Flickr

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Almanzo Wilder, married at 28 to a very lucky 18-year-old Laura Ingalls Wilder

Submitted by Tina

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1887, “Making the Magnetic pass, for producing or deepening the Mesmeric Sleep”, D. Younger

via the Wellcome Collection

(via fuckyeahvictorians)

epsteinian:

Venice: An Imaginary View of the Arsenale
circa 1840
J M W Turner 

(Source: epsteinian, via theromantics)

oldbookillustrations:

May-day amusements.

Thomas Bewick, from Harrison’s new nursery picture book, London, 1810.

(Source: archive.org)

thosewedontspeakof:

John William Waterhouse, Magic Circle (1886)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1848, possible “occupational” portrait of a gambler

via Heritage Auction Galleries

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