#1890s usa

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Beige and gold bridesmaid’s dress, 1896, American.

By A. F. Jammes.

Met Museum.

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[vintagemuseums]

Field Columbian Museum Moon Model, Chicago, Illinois, USA , 1898.

Original caption:  Field Columbian Museum West Court Alcove 103. 1898. Moon Model Prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Germany, in 1898. Made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal. Wood floor, security Guard in uniform in background, stairs leading up to the left. Sign above door,"Geology," not completely visible.

[museumofbuildings]

54 East Main St., Clifton Springs, New York, USA.

Built 1890.

[vintagepromotions]

Poster advertising the Arena magazine, January 1896 issue. Artwork by Charles D. Pettee.

[theshatterednotes]

Edna St. Vincent Millay

[tierradentro]

“Palm Tree, Nassau”, 1898, Winslow Homer.

[the5n00k]

BoBB au, what would be the equivalent of Home is Where the Haunt is/Out of House and Home? 🤔

Y'all always jumpscaring me with questions I can't answer lol /lh

Taxes were still a thing at the time but certainly not mortgages (and ridiculously high hospital bills) so perhaps Pete gets hurt on a job and can't work as the architect/planner for a while? And since gig pigging didn't exist, Sharon and the kids are going around the town doing odd jobs and paid favors for the townsfolk but they just get enough money to afford the necessary medical treatment he needs. They have to leave before the government over the town finds out they can't pay the necessary taxes and arrests them. Scratch meanwhile lives up to his warning signs strewn about the beach and scares away any newcomers since the beach is so visible from the house, breaching and roaring as angrily as possible. (Of course this act is very dangerous and reckless but he had no other choice) When Andrea (a well off citizen of Brighton due to her father's successful shipping and distributing company) hears about Molly having to leave, she gets really upset. They're best friends after all (according to her) so in order to ensure she stays, she promises to pay the taxes for this month and any other month Pete needs to recover straight from her own pocket and tells Molly to promise not to tell anyone so Maxwell doesn't find out (he has ew poor people disease)

I suppose this version is a lot less spectacular than the actual season 1 episode 18 but that episode is peak how am I gonna compete with housewife scratch I was never gonna top that

[goodoldtimesesthetique]

The Terminal, Manhattan, New York, USA, 1893 (Photo by Alfred Stieglitz)

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Guaranty Building, Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, 1893, Buffalo NY.

"This view let me now state, for it brings to the solution of the problem a final, comprehensive formula: All things in nature have a shape, that is to say, a form, an outward semblance, that tells us what they are, that distinguishes them from ourselves and from each other.

...

Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling workhorse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever-brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling.

It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law."

- Louis Sullivan, The tall office building artistically considered. Lippincott's Magazine, March 1896.

Go read the whole article if you have time. I couldn't paste it all here. It's beautiful. And everyone misinterprets the phrase. It was not a command that form should follow function, it was an observation of the slow evolution of natural forms that they always follow their (not always obvious or direct) function.

But about this building. Adam Caruso writes in his 2016 course outline, also where these gorgeous drawings come from:

"Structure is not simply about performance, about the length of a span, the weight of a beam and the ease of construction. These are the pragmatic engineering qualities of a structure. The design of a structure should be, in the first instance, about atmosphere, space and beauty. The imaginative upper part of a space and whether it is dark or light, plain or highly patterned these things have a profound effect on how we feel and what we are inspired to do in a place."

This building executes.

[rabbitcruiser]

South Bend was officially incorporated on September 27, 1890.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Brown evening dress, 1893, American.

Met Museum.

[memoriae-lectoris]

In 1893, a solid three hundred years after tomatoes were first cultivated in Europe, it took the US Supreme Court to decide whether tomatoes were a fruit or a vegetable.

At the time, imported vegetables were subject to a 10 percent tariff to protect American farmers, owing to the Tariff Act of 1883, but in 1887 a tomato importer named John Nix sued the collector of the port of New York to get his money back, arguing that tomatoes were fruits and therefore exempt. And this argument was contested for six years in escalating court battles before making its way to the nation’s highest court, where Supreme Court justices read from various dictionaries and heard testimony from expert witnesses before ultimately ruling that tomatoes were vegetables because they “are, like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner... and not, like fruits generally, as dessert.”

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7 Benefits Of Whole Life Insurance For Business Partners

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Victorian Era Costumes That I Find Similar to Anime Character Designs

I'd like to dispel the notion that a Victorian would pass away at the sight of an anime girl. Sure, rich ladies didn't like to show ankle, but there are more people out there. These are a variety of costumes from burlesques (then known mainly for being comedic), ballets, and theatre. A few are not by performers, and were for taken for personal reasons. These are all from the 1860s-1910, so Victorian and Edwardian (if you will).

Paris, France. P. Nory , Photo: Walery

Thigh-highs:

Right: Boston, USA. "Miss Darcey", Photo: The Notman Photographic Co.

Left: Broadway, New York City, USA. Alma Stanley, Photo: Marc Gambier

Bold design elements:

Top Left: Paris, France. Pauline d'Argent , Photo: Walery

Top Middle: Broadway, New York City, USA. Rose Zazel, Photo: Marc Gambier

Top Right: New York City, USA. Veronica Jabeau, Photo: Falk

Bottom Left: Paris, France. Eugénie Fiocre, Photo: Disdéri

Bottom Centre, Right: Paris, France. Unknown, Photo: Jaime Abecasis ARS Paris

Kemonomimi:

Left: Paris, France. R. Darty, Photo: Walery

Right: New York City, USA. Eliza Blasina, Photo: J Gurney & Son

Bat costumes after illustrations in Jenny Taylor Wandle's 'Masquerade & Carnival'

San Francisco, USA. Dolly Adams, Photo: Houseworth's Celebrities

Ladies in short dresses and capes:

Left: San Francisco, USA. Mabel Santley, Photo: Houseworth's Celebrities

Right: New York City, USA. Gracie Wilson, Photo: Newsboy

Faeries:

Left: New York City, USA. "Miss Farrington", Photo: Mora

Centre: New York City, USA. Unknown, Photo: Moreno & Loper

Right: Paris, France. Eugénie Fiocre, Photo: Disdéri

Sailor girls:

Left: New York City, USA. Pauline Hall, Photo: Mora

Centre: Unknown performer and photographer.

Right: San Francisco, USA. Elma Delaro, Photo: Houseworth's Celebrities

Femboys, crossdressing:

Left: Riga, Latvia. Unknown university fraternity students, Photo: Th. John for Jurjew

Right: Tartu, Estonia. Unknown university fraternity students, Photo: C. Schulz for Jurjew

[vintagepromotions]

Poster advertising The New York Sunday Journal (1897). Artwork by Ben Wells.