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From The Illustrated London News, Saturday October 20, 1877.
The colliery disaster at Wigan, England. “On Thursday week, at the Pemberton Collieries, near Wigan, there was a terrible explosion of ‘firedamp’ gas, by which thirty or forty men were killed”.
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Valentine’s Mistake Missive Letter from the Illustrated London News, 1883.
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Here’s a very lovely bustle from 1875! Make sure you don’t mix up your bustle eras!! Hand-snagged for your pleasure from Google’s digital US patent archives. Please mind the page order, as sometimes Tumblr likes shifting them about!
W.C. Coup presents Lu Lu the Flying Artist, circa 1880. Billed as “Positively the only flying man in the world,” Lu Lu performed dressed as a woman.
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A ball gown pattern from Godey’s Ladies Book. 1860 (month unavailable- I’m sorry!). Illustration and description of trimmings on the first page, along with, ehhhhh, a practice in a rather odd Victorian pastime of making interesting things from human hair. Game on!!
~ Sea-Bathing: Its Use and Abuse, Ghislani Durant, M.D., PH.D, 1878
