Valentina. 28. Italian. Bookworm. Tea-aholic. Cat Mom. Plant based. Art Admirer. Daydreamer. Period drama enthusiast.
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Autochromes of Paris from 1923 by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, a fascinating photographer for National Geographic, who converted to Islam in 1894, taking some of the earliest known photographs of Mecca.
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The Opening of the Great Exhibition - James Digman Wingfield
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the bounty of summer markets (at Marblehead Farmers’ Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgW1Kz7rYsh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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The unique Chippendale doll’s house at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire provides a perfect re-creation in miniature of a house in the 1740s.
Laura Ashley Style, 1987
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A SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE TILE, PERSIA, 17TH century
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Young woman reading' by Lucius Rossi, 1875
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Fresco from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii.
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