QUEEN VIOLET

Grand Duchess Marie Romanov having a lot of fun on the Polar Star in 1905.

For day #8, I'd like to do William Vicarage. He was another severely burned man at Jutland. This is a particularly revolutionary case because it he was the first patient to receive the Tubed Pedical, which if you don't know, was a skin graft invented by Harold Gillies. It's similar to the traditional flap, but it's stitched into a tube shape before being attached to the sight. This increases blood flow and diminishes the risk of infection. In Vicarages case, two V like grafts were taken from his chest and placed onto his cheeks, as seen in the first picture. The poor man had no lips or eyelids, and it took many surgeries and grafts to get him functional again, but as you can see In the last picture with him as an old man, he was infact returned to his former self, and lived a long and happy life.

WWI Uniforms, Insignia, (Distinguishing Marks), Rank, etc.

Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia of Russia

Three wounded British soldiers, one drinking from a bowl, in a dressing station in a churchyard at Morlancourt, near Albert. 1916

Girls deliver ice. Heavy work that formerly belonged to men only is being done by girls. The ice girls are delivering ice on a route and their work requires brawn as well as the partriotic ambition to help., 9/16/1918

Detail from a postcard of Edwardian actress Lily Elsie, c. 1907

Olga Nikolaevna and Maria Nikolaevna at the Lower dacha in Peterhof, 1906.

Emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna with their three daughters Olga, Tatiana and Maria on a beach.

  Feminine form of the Roman name Tatianus, a derivative of the Roman name Tatius. This was the name of a 3rd-century saint who was martyred in Rome under the emperor Alexander Severus. She was especially venerated in Orthodox Christianity, and the name has been common in Russia (as Татьяна) and Eastern Europe. This name was chosen in honour of one of the chararacters of the favorite book of both the emperor and the empress.

We are sharing some of our favourite gifs each day this month for Antifa International’s fifth anniversary. Today: Nazi monuments being destroyed after the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Olga and Anastasia Nikolaevna with peasant children in Mogilev.

Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia, ca. 1895-1900. Gelatin silver photographic print.

c.1890 Black Victorians in Photography Virginia.

Black Victorian Men Portraits c.1890 Virginia

Historical fashion detail in photography.