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BUFFALO SOLDIER A studio portrait of an unidentified African American soldier posing with buffalo hide. ca. 1860-1880. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt holding flowers, from the opening scene of Gismonda, a Greek melodrama in four acts by Victorien Sardou that premiered in 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris.
Studio of Georges Clairin, unsigned, oil on lithographic image on tooled gilt leather mounted to stretcher bars, 34”×23”.
(Source: 23silence, via my-ear-trumpet)
Letty Lind was a burlesque and musical theater performer whose career ran from about 1880 to the early 1900’s. Here she is doing her skirt dance in 1890, a craze that transcended social classes and combined ballet & step-dancing.
Day dress ca. late 1870’s
From the Digitalt Museum
(Source: fripperiesandfobs, via tawnyscostumesandcuriosities)
Young, Black and Handsome | The Black Victorians | 1890s
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