#c. 1890

[questionableadvice]

~ Business card for T.E. Cornish, seller of the Holmes' Burglar Alarm Telegraph, c. 1890

The Holmes Burglar Alarm Telegraph was the first "modern" burglar alarm. Not only did a bell ring whenever a door or window was opened from the outside, but it also alerted a central security office. The first models needed specially installed telegraph wires, but eventually they could use existing telephone lines. And it had it's own cute little cabinet "house" which is very steampunk:

The Electric House and Hotel Annunciator replaced the old rope-pull system that rang bells in the staff quarters. Now you could ring for the staff from any room in the house with a modern push button. Eventually, the push button model also evolved into "elevator annunciators" or the buttons we now use to call an elevator.

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[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Jovem Siciliano com Grade de Quadratura, Taormina | Barão Wilhelm von Gloeden | c. 1890

Sicilian Youth with Quadrature Grid, Taormina | Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden | c. 1890

[forsapphics]

Les Deux Amies (The Two Girl Friends) (1894 - 1895)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901)

[jeannepompadour]

Bridesmaid dress, House of Worth (French, 1858–1956), silk with pearl trim, 1896

[lacesims]

Yuliana Chekova | an 1890s lookbook! cc linked below the cut!

Here, we see Yuliana as she appears in the mid-1890s! Her style is quite simple—practical and feminine. She dresses modestly and mostly wears earthier tones, a result of their lack of money.

everyday | hair - shawl - blouse - skirt - apron - boots

formal | hair - dress - boots

activewear | cap - blouse - skirt - boots

sleepwear | hair - nightgown - stockings

undergarments | blouse - bloomers - stockings

party | dress - boots

swimwear | cap - swimming costume - stockings (BG) - shoes (BG)

warm weather | cap - dress - boots

cold weather 1 | shawl - blouse - skirt - boots

cold weather 2 | headscarf (BG) - coat - gloves - skirt - boots

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Albert Edelfelt  (1854–1905) - From the port of Copenhagen, c. 1890

[ghw-archive]

Émile Vernon (1872-1920), young woman with daisies - detail

[vizuart]

Arthur James Iles - Portrait of the Māori chief Tuterei Karewa of the Ngāti Maru tribe, North Island, New Zealand (c.1890)

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 42, vol. 15, 20 octobre 1894, Paris. Créations inédites. Dessin de C. Billié. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Toilette de ville en drap mastic, brodé au plumetis sur un dessous de velours hanneton. Corsage de velours garni de bretelles formant choux à la taille. Manches larges, poignets drap brodé. Chapeau 1830, en feutre mastic, garni de velours hanneton.

City ensemble in mastic cloth, embroidered with plumetis on a chafer velvet underside. Velvet bodice trimmed with straps forming cabbages at the waist. Wide sleeves, embroidered cloth cuffs. 1830 hat, in mastic felt, trimmed with chafer velvet.

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Robe de visites, en velours Parme, brodée de jais, garnie de vison et de velours aubergine. Manches toutes brodées. Chapeau en feutre noir, garni de plumes et de roses de velours aubergine.

Visiting dress, in Parma velvet, embroidered with jet, trimmed with mink and aubergine velvet. Fully embroidered sleeves. Black felt hat, trimmed with feathers and aubergine velvet roses.

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Collet en fourrure, garni de velours gris mauve rebrodé formant longues pointes devant. Choux aux épaules. Capeline Louis XVI, garnie de plumes noires et de violettes.

Fur collar, trimmed with mauve-gray velvet embroidered into long points at the front. Shoulder puffs. Louis XVI wide-brimmed hat, trimmed with black and violet feathers.

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Collet en velours noir et moire blanche brodée de jais. Bord de plumes noires, bretelles en velours noir. Chapeau "petit abbé", garni de plumes.

Collar in black velvet and white moire embroidered with jet. Edge of black feathers, straps in black velvet. "Petit abbé" hat, trimmed with feathers.

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Manteau de voiture, en velours noir et hermine, rattaché aux épaules par des motifs de jais et cabochons; revers en soie vieux rose, avec jais en bas. Toque en plumes noires et velours vieux rose. — Manchon velours.

Car coat, in black velvet and ermine, attached at the shoulders with jet and cabochon motifs; old pink silk lapels, with jet at the bottom. Black feather and old pink velvet toque. — Velvet muff.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Charles Rebel Stanton

lady at the pond, 1910.

Watercolor on paper.

[nupaintings]

[theegrandhorizontal]

George Hendrik Breitner, c. 1890 - c. 1910

[simadelics]

Bibury, 1895

Emmeline

I suppose I’ve become quite the seamstress!

Almira has allowed me to alter some of her old dresses to fit myself, and I’m glad to finally be out of that tight-fitting bad memory. Still, the woman hasn't updated her wardrobe in quite some time, and I am reminded of my mother: whoever thought the bustle was a good idea did not have a posterior like my own!

Without the help of a lady’s maid, my hair has suffered likewise, though I have never been one to fuss very much over my own appearance. It's nice not to be made to. I have found myself surprisingly appreciative of the work I have been given; it keeps me from wallowing too much in my own hurt, which seems to grow by the day, rather than heal with time. I believe now that I have settled, in some sense, I've been given time to think about it all: Kenneth’s betrayal, Mother’s, the destruction of my manuscript, and — most of all — how dearly I miss my children.

I find I often dream of Kenneth and I, at home and happily wed, without any of the pain that has come to define our marriage to me in the day. It all feels so enticingly real until I wake, and I am enraged at his betrayal all over again.

At least the renewal of spring approaches — I must look forward to that, rather than think about how my condition grows with its coming...

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[forsapphics]

In a Rose Garden (ca. 1890)

Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836 - 1912)

[archduchessofnowhere]

Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria (née Princess of Belgium) in 1830s costume, by Fritz Luckhardt, c. 1885-1890.

Via Wien Museum

[jeannepompadour]

Illustrations by Jean de Paleologu;

Poster Folies Bergère La Jolie Théro, 1898

Advertising posters for Cycles Fernand Clément & Cie, c. 1897 and Cycles Péoria, c. 1898

Turkish Regie Cigarettes, 1895 and Casino de Paris, 1895-1900 

Les Fêtards, opérette, 1897 and Liqueurs Spéciales Cusenier, c. 1900