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This amazing vintage photo shows workers trimming a tree off a historic home

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862), better known as Elizabeth Siddal,was an English artist, poet, and artists' model. Significant collections of her artworks can be found at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean. Siddal was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais (including his notable 1852 painting Ophelia), and especially by her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

During WWII, the Coast Guard Beach Patrol covered more than 3,700 mile of coast and employed about 24,000 men. Patrols on horseback worked in pairs, riding about 100 feet apart, usually covering a 2-mile stretch. They were call "Sand Pounders" and were able to cover difficult terrain quickly and efficiently. c 1945

I love Mae West deeply and this is a stunning gown.

The collar! The colour! The Victorian-crossed-with-1930sness of it!

Royal blue wool twill dress with ivory satin collar designed by Elsa Schiaparelli for Mae West as Peaches O’Day in “Every Day’s a Holiday” (1937).

Source: Film Costume Collection.

Soldier taking the Christmas tree home, c1918.

Harpsichord built by Pierre Donzelague in 1716 on display at the Musée des Arts décoratifs