February 2012
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PHOTOGRAPHY by CHARLES EISENMANN
With his studio located in the Bowery, New York City, photographer Charles Eisenmann began photographing portraits of show people from dime museums in the 1870s. While photographing “ordinary” people in the basic conventional form, Eisenmann continued working on his archive of “freaks” throughout the 1870s and 80s, which he sold in the cabinet style as collectables.
Clothed in stand collar...
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Bizarre Victorian Fact of the day...
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Up until the late 19th century barbers also acted as back-street surgeons. People with little money who were in need of treatment would go to the barber who would perform operations including tooth extraction and amputations. The symbol of the red and white striped pole which marks a barber shop is a reference to this forgotten aspect of their trade - it represents a...
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Bizarre Victorian fact of the day...
vicfangirlguide:
In her famous “Book of Household Management” Mrs Beeton listed a variety of methods and food recipes for houses on a tight budget to employ. Many of these included alternatives to more expensive ingredients. The most popular of these recipes was her alternative to apricot preserve - carrot jam.
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Bizarre Victorian fact of the day...
vicfangirlguide:
In 1838 the SS Sirius became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. It undertook the voyage to try to beat Brunel’s ship The Great Western. Unfortunately halfway through the trip the Sirius ran out of coal and the crew were forced to burn every piece of furniture, every wooden door and even one of the masts in order to reach New York first.
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Bizarre Victorian fact of the day...
vicfangirlguide:
In England in 1849 a coin was issued which was given the nickname the ‘Graceless’ or ‘Godless’ florin. This was because unlike all previous coins it did not carry the traditional inscriptions D.G (Dei Gratia - By God’s Grace) and F.D (Fidei Defensor - Defender of the Faith). A virulent cholera epidemic during that year was blamed on the Godless Florin and as a result the coin...
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vicfangirlguide:
In the mid 19th century crinolines were extremely fashionable but also very dangerous. Breathing the seaside air was believed to have many health benefits but ladies who walked along piers in their crinolines were regularly lifted into the air by sudden gusts of wind and thrown into the sea. Many women each year also burned to death as their crinolines would catch fire as they...
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast, Warm breath, light whisper, tender semitone, Bright eyes, accomplished shape, and lang’rous waist! Faded the flower and all its budded charms, Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes, Faded the shape of beauty from my arms, Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise - Vanished unseasonably...
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“There’s a blush for won’t, and a blush for shan’t, and a blush for having done...”
– John Keats (via jeuxdestimbres)
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“These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via fyeahliteraryquotes)
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January 2012
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