1800 photography

Explore Turn of the century's 181 photos on Flickr!

These are some of the earliest portrait photos of Victorian women taken by Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865), one of Britain's first fema...

Vintage

L-O-N-G Victorian Hair by Author Kristin Holt includes historic images of long-haired beauties, vintage newspaper ads, serums, potions from Victorian era.

Antique photograph of a woman, probably from the late 1800s. Likeness was taken at Randal Photography Studio in Middletown, Ohio.

Although fashion did not embrace the look of trousers on the female form until the late 20th century, history saw working women wearing them a hundred years prior. From Victorian coal miners who rolled up their skirts around their waist to reveal soot-covered pants underneath to today’s terrible backlash of factory-torn denim, spandex jeggings, and bedazzled bums, women’s pants have undergone quite a transformation. Let’s take a look at the early fashion of women’s pants from the festooned…

ph. clarence hudson white | 1898