Victorian Prudes

Friends (1870s)

Royal Relatives (1870s)

Image courtesy of Veronica from “H&V” boards   a member of a Vk Group about the Romanovs. Thanks you!!!

via Cowan’s Auctions

Tintype of Five Young Ladies “Little Maids All in a Row” by Photo_History - Here but not Happy on Flickr.

Szembekötősdi | blind man’s buff by Csoszi on Flickr.

Victorian children playing. 1890s.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna, later Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Fancy sisters (1870s-80s)

1850s Family by LJMcK on Flickr.

via Harvard University, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Part of the Izetta Jewel Papers, 1852-1978 

~ Road Book of Boston and Vicinity for Bicyclers, Riders and Drivers, Charles A. Underwood, ed., 1893 "It is not advisable to wear a bustle."

Via

via KaufmaNelson Vintage Photographs

via Yale University’s Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection

via Yale University’s Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection