Tumgik
#turn of the century
fashionsfromhistory · 9 months
Photo
Tumblr media
Wisteria Lamp
Tiffany and Co.
1903-1905
National Gallery of Victoria
5K notes · View notes
yeoldenews · 7 months
Text
Tumblr media
"Jilted."
I've been laughing at this horse's face for a week.
(source: Yours Truly and One Hundred Other Original Drawings by James Montgomery Flagg, 1908.)
2K notes · View notes
iridessence · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
posting this black gown on my pink main because everyone needs to see this photo of me at the ball. sans gloves, quelle scandale !
2K notes · View notes
luxus-aeterna · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
The look for a corsetière’s holiday party I went to. instagram
2K notes · View notes
retropopcult · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media
New York, 1904. "Knickerbocker Trust Building and Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue at W. 34th Street."
148 notes · View notes
lake-lady · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
Looking out the window of an old warehouse
675 notes · View notes
celestialtulip · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media
Some studies I did this morning of the Jeanne d’Arc sculpture by Antonin Mercié (ca. 1890).
119 notes · View notes
theyroaredvintage · 5 months
Text
Tumblr media
Circus performer, early 1900s
164 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
~ Alphonse Mucha, advertisement postcard, Moet et Chandon (1899)
via vmfa.museum
71 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
Entrance to Kasbah Henri Matisse 1912
* * * *
“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but this is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.” ― E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed
80 notes · View notes
daguerreotyping · 8 months
Text
Tumblr media
Circa 1900s postcard of university girls being girls: smoking, drinking, fighting, gambling and asking the important questions, namely: "Wer zahlt den Früh-schoppen?" ("Who's paying for the morning pint?")
181 notes · View notes
fashionsfromhistory · 5 months
Text
Tumblr media
Evening Dress
Jay's Ltd. (London, England)
c.1908
Victoria & Albert Museum (Accession Number: T.193&A-1970)
1K notes · View notes
humanoidhistory · 5 months
Text
Tumblr media
Charles Gibson, 1906.
(NYPL)
129 notes · View notes
iridessence · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
Goal of being a real life impressionist painting, realized. x
3K notes · View notes
luxus-aeterna · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
a close friend hosted a going away tea party in my honor, and I threw together different pieces in my closet/night gown drawer to make a turn of the century vibe happen. | IG
3K notes · View notes
retropopcult · 1 year
Photo
Tumblr media
“Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two”, from the National Archives, photograph dated 1911.
521 notes · View notes