historyofeurope:

In 1884 Queen Victoria traveled to Coburg, Germany for a relative’s wedding.

Here she is during that trip pictured among members of her large family including such prominent figures as the future Edward VII, the future King George V, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the German dowager Empress Friedrich, the future Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia, and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

legrandcirque:

London Lafayette, Portrait of Frances Evelyn Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, 1906.

vintageblackglamour:

holdthisphoto:

Tintype of James Weldon Johnson’s mother and sister: Helen Louise Johnson and Agnes Marion Edwards, 1870

Tintype of James Weldon Johnson’s mother and sister: Helen Louise Johnson and Agnes Marion Edwards, 1870. 

my-ear-trumpet:

Children of Circus Renz, Vienna 1860s.
Photographer: August Mansfeld.

Swagger.

(Source: gdfalksen)

missfolly:

Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, a religious and military leader of the Sikh kingdom of Patiala (modern Punjab, India), 1911

I LOVE THIS!

edwardianera:

Puppet show, Luna Park, Paris in 1910

Pretty hats!

lostsplendor:

Franz von Papen, c. 1914 (via World War II Database)

Franz von Pickelhauben

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my-ear-trumpet:

legrandcirque:

The New York Knickerbockers Baseball Club, clockwise from top left: Alfred Cartwright, Alexander Cartwright, William Wheaton, Henry Tiebout Anthony, Daniel “Doc” Adams, and Duncan Curry, ca. 1847.

What splendid looking fellows!

Epic hats! This is what baseball is missing today!

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lauramcphee:

Marthe Rioton, c1900

Hat is awesome and all, but this portrait is hauntingly beautiful to me! Look at her face!

lauramcphee:

Jane Renouardt, c1910

Wow- what a wonderful use of feathers!

legrandcirque:

Princess Margaret of Prussia, ca. 1905.

lauramcphee:

[Unidentified woman, about 30 years of age, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, wearing bonnet] Mathew Brady, c1844-60 

What a lovely portrait!

earwigbiscuits:

Mrs. Gertrude Sheldon Sands, wife of Samuel Stevens Sands III, a son of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Sr., in 1913. Lovely Gertie was widowed that summer when her husband was killed in an automobile accident in West Hampton NY; three years later she married financier Richard Whitney. (Library of Congress)

What an elegant and lovely portrait!

lostsplendor:

Unknown Soldiers, Washington DC c. 1918 (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

Those are some stern looking fellows! 

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chrisjonesing:

School boys in Germany celebrating the Kaiser’s birthday, 1915

Look at those adorable wee pickelhaubes! 

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