For those of us who miss the finer points of the 19th century …Tumblr (3.0; @victorianexperience)http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d9xgXgK41qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Scenes from daily Victorian life. Terrace houses, circa 1860s - 1880s. If ever I move to England I fully expect I would buy a terrace house, but I don’t know why the fascinate me so.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27491165608http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27491165608Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:29:40 -0600Victorianvintagehistoryantique<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d9u1gcwp1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Scenes from daily Victorian life. Recreated, not period photo, but a proper recreation courtesy of Beamish Museum near Durham (which I will be visiting in the spring of ‘13).</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27491041747http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27491041747Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:27:37 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d9qw9pxj1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Scenes from daily Victorian life. A fold-out scullery, for those really tiny spaces.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27490931006http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27490931006Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:25:43 -0600Victorianvintagehistoryantique<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d9p396xH1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Scenes from daily Victorian life. Drawing of a kitchen, circa 1886.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27490867889http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27490867889Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:24:39 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d9nlPr8x1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Scenes from daily Victorian life. This is one of the most famous maids of all time, Hannah Cullwick, posed for a photo scrubbing the steps for her dirty-jobs obsessed lover, Arthur Mumby.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27490813036http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/27490813036Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:23:45 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6urt0e3vb1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Just a little Victorian humour.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26771647006http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26771647006Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:41:24 -0600victorianhumourMaryPoppins<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t9q8LSP31qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Just because. And tea certainly makes it easier to carry on.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26721611085http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26721611085Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:13:20 -0600teabritishEnglish<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6qz4yXr8y1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Men’s Victorian fashion. The measuring and fitting instructions for your new clothes, although by the 1890s ready-made sizes were much more common.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26634684198http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26634684198Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:29:22 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6qz2jd4Ws1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Men’s Victorian fashion. Two styles of the sack suits sort of precursor to the modern business jacket. I rather want one of these for my wardrobe.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26634604503http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26634604503Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:27:55 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6qz0bXvey1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Men’s Victorian fashion. The double-breasted frock coat. I prefer the single-breasted look myself for frock coats, but others definitely prefer this.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26634533505http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26634533505Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:26:35 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6qyxuX7DP1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Men’s Victorian fashions today. Here, the class cutaway or riding coat, now better known at the morning coat.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26634454475http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26634454475Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:25:06 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jnkrXpjc1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Trust Bayer for your name-brand heroin. You must admit, the Victorians were open minded about medicines.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26356124394http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26356124394Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:36:27 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jnerlcnh1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I don’t really sew, but I really want a machine like this. My local antique sop has one in great condition right now, but my budget is not in quite as great a condition …</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26355906497http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26355906497Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:32:51 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jncjAL3Y1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Other word making machines, including an early mimeo, from the 1890s.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26355826443http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26355826443Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:31:31 -0600Victorianvintagehistoryantique<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jnaoPRAh1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Typewriters from the 1890s. While designs we would consider to be modern typewriters do date to the 1880s and earlier, they were by no means universal yet, as these style of machines shows.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26355755345http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26355755345Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:30:24 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dvxfu7JC1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Finally, a stereoscopic camera. Even though I can never get the effect, I love the old stereo view cards, too.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26142736602http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26142736602Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:51:15 -0600Victorian. vintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dvv7OhwB1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Another old camera - what today would pass as a large format camera.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26142674884http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26142674884Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:49:55 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dvtanPgi1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I love old cameras. A fairly basic model here.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26142624596http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26142624596Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:48:46 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dvrpCk3g1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Home telegraph kits for sale from the 1890s. What is amazing is that you could get a run of your own private line from the same catalogue. .— .- .-. -.. …</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26142584071http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26142584071Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:47:49 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ckn5dAhX1qipvjxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>From the electronic to the scientific: a range of microscopes.</p>http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26096398975http://victorianexperience.tumblr.com/post/26096398975Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:49:53 -0600Victorianvintageantiquehistory