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Section of the Broadway underground railway.
From The underground world, by Thomas Wallace Knox, Hartford, 1877.(Source: archive.org)
Walter Bentley Woodbury, age 23. Self-portrait with a camera, 1857. This British-born photographer sailed to Austraila when he was twenty and ran a sucessful photography studio first in Melbourne, and then in Java, Indonesia.
He enclosed this photograph with a letter to his mother:
“The portrait I send has the date marked on it and in the future I shall always date them so that you can see if I improve in appearance or otherwise.”
McCall patterns
Illustrating the new coat lines in a suit of tweed
1915
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~ Bullene, Moores, Emery & Co’s Illustrated Catalogue and Shopping Guide, Fall and Winter, 1886-1887
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House of Worth, 1894
This extraordinary costume would have been worn while riding in one’s carriage, which at the time was a social event. It is likely the muff and mantle were bought from the House of Worth but due to the difference in stitching and trimming on the dress, the likelihood is that the client bought extra textile lengths and had the dress made in the United States after returning home.
