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Dowager Kronprinzessin Stephanie of Austria. Mids 1890s.

Advertisement for a bakery, 1870-1900.

 Une femme jouant avec son chien au jardin du Luxembourg , 1893 .

Black heeled boots with gold, Shoe-Icons, c. 1860-68

These are amazing.

The Sisters Watson as “The Mashers” in an 1883 English production of Bluebeard, a burlesque by F.C Burnand (Phyllis Broughton played “Joliquet”). Victorian burlesque was sort of the Forbidden Broadway of its time, poking fun at the conventions of serious opera. Trouser roles were encouraged, especially ones where the actresses could show a little leg, but burlesque as striptease was a uniquely American “innovation.”

Performers, 1891.

Australia, 1800s. (She’s beautiful!)

Fanny Cornforth posing before a mirror, c. 1863

Original 1890’s Muskegon, Michigan cabinet card

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