This photo from the 1870s features a solemn woman with a crown of braids. Her dress appears to have been velvet. Victorian fashions were much more bold in their color choices at times, so this dress could have been blue with red trim, brown with green trim, orange with black trim, etc. We will never …
When posting photographs, I often wonder what was the occasion for the sitting. While photography was becoming less expensive to the masses it was still somewhat of a privilege in many areas. Sitting for a photograph was often associated with a special occasion – an engagement, birthday, graduation, birth of a child, etc. Much like …
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