Victorian photos

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, according to the well-known saying. Yet it is only in the present day that our eyes need to make some ...

Wearing widow's weeds and holding photograph of their loved ones, photos show Victorians in mourning as part of a trend that saw them pictured in the throes of their grief.

It's not easy to remember life before Photoshop. When we do, we think of a world where picture were straightforward, always showing exactly what happened

pictures of 1800's style and fashion

Vintage

Found image. This picture shows Ethel and Dora posing with Dash and Fluff in 1913. The photograph was taken by A C Crocker of Yeovil.

If you've ever looked at pictures from the Victorian era then you've probably noticed that nobody is smiling. Everybody looks so serious that it seems as if people in the 1800s simply didn't know how to have fun. But as these pictures prove, that wasn't always the case.

This cabinet card portrait features a lovely couple photographed by the McLane studio in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The couple are attractively dressed and well groomed. The woman has a lovely figure…

Saucy ladies of the late Victorian era showing off their charms and being slightly naughty!

Lady Clementina Hawarden's pictures of her daughters (including Isabella, left) from the 1860s are set to fetch £150,000 at auction. She used the entire first floor of her London home as a studio.