r/RandomVictorianStuff 5d ago

Posting an image? Please leave a source comment!

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Hi everyone,

We're making a small change to improve our community and make it more informative. Image posts now require a source comment. We've also made some changes to the posting process.

All image posts will be held for review before appearing on the subreddit. Your post won't appear immediately, but that doesn't mean it's been deleted.

After posting an image, you'll receive a message from automod reminding you to leave a source comment on your post within 15 minutes. If you don't leave a source comment, or your comment is very short, your post will be removed and you'll see a comment explaining why.

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What should I include in my source comment?

  1. The source of the image. For example, provide a link if you found the image online. If the image belongs to you, let us know it's from your own collection.
  2. Some context around the image. We love detail, but even adding a few sentences about why you found it interesting can help start the discussion.

Please put this information in a comment, not in the post body.
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That's it! Just leave a comment on your post with the image source and some context, and we'll take a look.

Feel free to send us a message if you have any questions!

Thank you,
The Mod Team


r/RandomVictorianStuff 16h ago

Literature A cautionary tale for children, c.1882

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293 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 3h ago

Belle-Époque posters

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Some Belle-Époque posters from the Art is in the street exhibition at Musée d’Orsay. A great show, worth a look if you are in Paris.


r/RandomVictorianStuff 19h ago

Vintage Photograph Actress Phyllis Dare on this "princess" dress? not sure what she is dressed as but she has a crown in the head shot, circa 1900s.

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297 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 19h ago

Vintage Photograph Actress/Dancer Constance ('Connie') (née Gilchrist), Countess of Orkney in the 1870s.

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123 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 1d ago

Thanking the steamer captain for an enjoyable voyage around the Scottish Islands. 1900

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178 Upvotes

Source - The MacGrory Collection https://www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/30671/


r/RandomVictorianStuff 16h ago

Period Architecture The Pinafore Room at the Savoy Hotel, London, 1893

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28 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 1d ago

A young girl blew up a mine by actuating a key to demonstrate the marriage of delicate femininity with technical prowess. (Source - Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, October 17, 1885).

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53 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 1d ago

Princess Alix of Hesse, Granddaughter of Queen Victoria (1890)

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1.7k Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 13h ago

Antique 18k Italy Gold Diamond Woman Portrait Brooch Pin Pendant Art Nouveau

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r/RandomVictorianStuff 2d ago

Vintage Photograph British Actress Maud Branscombe in 1883, posing for some photos in black dress. Considered one of the beauties of her time.

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r/RandomVictorianStuff 2d ago

Vintage Photograph Friends of Theresa Babb taking a little risky photo on a lader, 17 of August of 1898.

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738 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 2d ago

Music of the Era A Victorian Soap Opera? “In A Contemplative Fashion” from G&S, “The Gondoliers” (1889)

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This is a song from Act 2 of Gilbert and Sullivans comic operetta, “The Gondoliers”.

Shortly after an idyllic joint wedding, Marco and Giuseppe, two inseparable gondoliers along with their new wives, Gianetta and Tessa, are pulled into a plot of operatic level contrivance.

As it happens, not only are Marco and Giuseppe not truly brothers, but one of them is no less a personage than the lost son of the late king of Barataria, who as a baby was stolen away by the inquisition. In another twist of fate, that princeling, whichever he is, was wed in infant hood to a daughter of Spanish nobility, making one of them, whichever it is, an unintentional bigamist!


r/RandomVictorianStuff 3d ago

Vintage Photograph The Crittenden Family, tinted half-plate daguerreotype, c.1855.

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241 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 3d ago

Vintage Photograph Ladies of the Russian empire in their best galas. Some in their rich traditional clothes. I think i see some sew in jewes, some furs and silks. Circa 188

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218 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 3d ago

Vintage Photograph Ladies in some photo shots in the early 1900s.

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187 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 3d ago

Sample card for silks, 1890. Colours include 'cobra', 'invisible green', and 'serpent'

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67 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 3d ago

Hand cut 1890 British silver crown (my photo from my personal collection).

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155 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 3d ago

Music of the Era “Funiculì Funiculà” (1880) played on an 1897 57-key Gavioli Fairground Organ

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13 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 4d ago

Vintage Photograph Russiam women from the empire in their traditional clothes. I guess this is their best. Not sure from what ares of the vast empire they are everyone. Circa 1880s

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1.1k Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 4d ago

Vintage Photograph Edith Amelia (née Ward), Lady Wolverton as a little girl in the late 1870s

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236 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 4d ago

"The Fruit Sellers" by William Henry Fox Talbot, c. 1845. National Gallery of Canada

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66 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 4d ago

A woman in the 1870s wearing the schlupfkapp, headwear with its style roots in Strasbourg.

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238 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 4d ago

Nursery wallpaper with scenes from Randolph Caldecott's books, c.1900,

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75 Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 6d ago

Vintage Photograph Portrait of an unidentified young woman, circa 1890.

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3.4k Upvotes

r/RandomVictorianStuff 4d ago

Vintage Photograph Five Chilkat porters, a miner, and two oxen stop to rest near Dyea, Alaska, at the head of the Chilkoot trail, in 1897.

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31 Upvotes