oldbookillustrations:

Lady Bell’s catechism.

George du Maurier, from Pegasus re-saddled, by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Philadelphia, 1878.

(Source: archive.org)

questionableadvice:

~ American Practical Hygiene of To-Day, by C. Gilman Currier, M.D., 1894

treselegant:

‘The meeting of father and daughter.’

Cassell’s Family Paper, 1863-4.

mudwerks:

questionableadvice:

~ Tennessee Model Household Guide. Practical Helps in the Household, by Mollie Huggins, 1897
via Internet Archive

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theoddmentemporium:

Advertising Banner Women

This portrait of a woman, circa 1870-1900, is identified as Marie Stover of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. She’s holding a cake, wearing a loaf of bread as a hat and a dress adorned with donuts, cookies, and pretzels. Presumably, she is advertising a bakery.

So-called ‘Banner Women’ were a common way of advertising one’s business in the late 19th century, as can be seen here.

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a young child with a banner, “three cheers for the flag”], James Girard Smith

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

ludivinedix:

Girls with Dolls. Taylor Studio. Circa 1884-1898.

(via )

gohsap:

For sale by: Bloomingdale Bros. 

(via fashionrevealed)

mudwerks:

(via Agence eureka)

Le Petit Journal (1897)