aquietsunday:

Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess Dabernon by John Singer Sargent

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Queen of Denmark (Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1879-1952), date unknown.

hanracecarnah:

“The Christmas Caper”
By Charley Harper
1976

Backside:
It’s the night before Christmas and from up on the rooftop you hear such a clatter that you spring from your bed to see what’s the matter. You were expecting maybe Claus? It’s paws—a pack of raccs fleeing the flue, decking the haul from an untimely un-trim the tree party as the baddies get the goodies. But don’t begrudge them their sooty booty. it’s the season for forgiving and for giving. So open your heart—and your hearth. - Charley Harper

I have waited months to post this…it is time.

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The Queen of Greece (Sophie of Prussia, 1870-1932), 1913.

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1880-1962) upon her coronation at the age of 18 on September 6, 1898.

Hand-colored ambrotype of an unidentified soldier in Union uniform holding the hand of an unidentified woman, between 1861 and 1865.

I know I’ve seen this gown floating around tumblr before, but it just makes me so happy. It’s seasonably appropriate, as well!

FEATHERS!

American silk evening dress for R. H. White & Company, 1885. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

Back view:

Evening dress originally published in Court magazine no. 46, April 1836.

Bathing dress, no date recorded on caption card.

Lithograph by the Calvert Litho. Co., 1892.

Actress Maxine Elliott (1868-1940) dressed in the role of Portia from The Merchant of Venice, 1901.

hanracecarnah:

Late 1860’s
Pencil notation on back: “Nelly Moore”

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Memento mori gold and crystal skull ring, c. 1761.

The ring is inscribed “W Harrison Ob 2 Sept 1761 AE 69.”

Also it is for sale! For $5,450!

hanracecarnah:

Designed by Robert Roser
Late 50’s-Early 60’s

I love this a lot….

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