Interesting Historical Photos (34 pics)
"A Young Victorian Lady Photographing A Mirror Selfie. Circa 1900"
"Portrait Of Ah-Weh-Eyu (Pretty Flower), Of The Seneca Nation, 1908. Photo By J.l. Blessing"
"Rare Picture Of A Black Female Union Soldier 1862"
"Her name was Cathy Williams and she had to pose as a MALE to be enlisted at the Time..She was part of the 38 Regiment,Infantry Division and was called a Buffalo Soldier."
"Unidentified African-American Family Prairie Settlers From The 1880s"
"Portrait Of Hattie Tom, An Apache Native American, 1899"
"Two Ladies Making A Snow Lady. This Photo Was Originally Printed In Strand Magazine, Volume III 1892"
"A Kitty Basking In The Beard Of Louis Coulon, A French Metallurgist, Taken In 1890"
"Group Of Debutante Ladies, Washington, Dc, Circa 1910 - Colorized By Olga Shirniba"
"This Photograph Shows A Young Mother, Exhausted From Spending Hours Making Matchboxes, A Pile Of Which Can Be Seen On The Table"
"Young English Victorian Lady Posing With Her Pet Cat C1890s"
"Unknown Victorian Woman In A More Unusual Pose At The Time, Having A Good Ol’ Chuckle"
"Amelia Van Buren With Friend Photographed By Thomas Eakins, Late 1880s, Metropolitan Museum Of Art: Photography"
"Vintage Studio Portrait Of Girl A With Cat, Circa 1913"
"Alice Doherty - The Minnesota Woolly Girl - Poses With Her Family In A Typically Dour Victorian Photograph Circa Early 1900s"
"She suffered from “dog-faced” hypertrichosis, a rare condition that wasn't an uncommon sight in the world of Victorian-era so called ‘freak’ shows. Alice and her mum toured with Professor Weller’s One-Man Band from the age of five, and was exhibited in shop windows and other small venues. Other hypertrichosis sufferers made a small fortune touring in Europe, but Alice never reached their heights of fame. In 1915, aged 28, she retired in Dallas, Texas where she died in 1933"
"Portrait Of Actresses Maude Adams And Ethel Barrymore, Taken In New York, Circa 1897"
"A Female Mason Perched High Above Berlin (C. 1910)"
"With the rise of industrialization, the number of German women who worked outside the home also increased. This usually meant factory work. But in some families with their own businesses, daughters also learned a trade so that they could help out: here, we see a master-mason’s daughter during the renovation work on the old city hall tower in Berlin"
"Portrait Of Another Victorian Batwoman, Shown As Marie Schleinzer, Taken At Adele Kuk Hof-Atelier, Vienna Circa 1890"
"‘Blackbirds’, A Group Of Men And Women Sitting In A Fallen Tree. Photograph By Louis Milton Thiers C1910"
"Unknown Victorian Lady Pulling A Face For The Camera"
"A Woman Dressed Up As Batgirl In 1904, 35 Years Before The Creation Of Batman In 1939, And 57 Years Before The Creation Of Batgirl In 1961"
""A Fine Day In London" Photographed By Hector Colard C.1898"
"A Victorian Lass With Rather Long Hair In A Fashionable Pic C1890s"
"Blanche Allarty Excited Circus Crowds In The Late 1890s With Her Superior Equestrian Abilities"
"A born crowd-pleaser, she continually innovated new tricks to keep her fans yearning for more. In a male-dominated world, Blanche Allarty became famous for gracefully executing death-defying tricks. According to Hilda Nelson, author of Great Horsewomen of the 19th Century in the Circus Allarty became one of France’s “most famous and admired ecuyère of haute école (a female rider of the upper school). She was among the first women in history to perform virtuoso dressage and she was highly respected for it"
"A Couple Of Victorian Travellers Looking Rather Dandy Taken Around 1890s"
"Mother And Daughter Watch A Tall Ship Navigate The Thames Assisted By A Steam Tug, London, Ca. 1880 - Sunderland Antiquarian Society"
"Portrait Of Actress Evelyn Nesbit Photographed By Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., 1901"
"Female Japanese School Students, They Were Wearing Edo Period Uniforms Consisting Of A 'Hakama' (Skirts Worn Over A Short-Sleeved 'Furisode Kimono', In The Tokyo Prefecture, Meiji Era, Imperial Japan, C. Early 1910s"
"Portrait Of Victorian Bird-Man In Norway, Robert Collett (1842-1913) Taken C. 1910"
"Autremagazine 1890s, An Inuit Man Warms His Wife’s Feet. Greenland"
"The Smallest Shop In London, Occupied By A Cobbler, At 4 Bateman Street, Soho. The Shop Is Six Feet Long, Five Feet High And Two Feet Deep, The Rent Three Pounds A Week, It Has Been Occupied For Over Twenty Years. C.1910"
"Rather Creepy Victorian Humpty Dumpty Adaptation From Alice Through The Looking Glass Circa 1873"
"Victorian Woman Dressed As A Witch Or A High Priestess, Taken At Emil H. Klemke's Photographic Studio In Scribner, Nebraska (Population, 827) In Around 1900"
"Having A Tooth Taken Out At The Dentist In The UK In The 1870s"
