Postcard, dated 1917. Title: "A Gentleman with a bread rationing card! Your invitation is thankfully accepted."
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Men's beachwear fashion plate - 1905
A 1905 fashion plate showing men wearing lounge suits as informal beachwear.
Victorian fashion plate - 1829
"Newest Fashions for May 1829, Morning and Evening Dresses", a fashion plate from World of Fashion.
French fashion plate - 1778
1778 fashion plate of French court dress with wide panniers and artificially enhanced "big hair". Plate 43 in Galerie des Modes for 1778.
Caption: "Jeune Dame de Qualité en grande Robe coëffée avec un Bonnet ou Pouf élégant dit la Victoire. Dessiné par Desrais. Gravé par Voysant."
French fashion plate - 1865
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Fashion plate (The immense shawl,point de gaze or application d'Angleterre) 1865
Victorian boys fashion plate - 1841
Detail of fashion plate from Petit Courier des Dames, 1841, showing boys clothing: a later skeleton suit on the left, and a knee-length dress with trousers or pantalettes
French geography book - 1888
French geography book "La deuxième année de géographie" by Pierre Foncin
French book cover - 1885
Cover of the book "Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger" de Hervey de Saint-Denys
French book cover - 1867
Cover of the book "Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger" de Hervey de Saint-Denys
Botany illustration - 1823
John Franklin's first expedition (from Gray (France) Library book : Sir John Franklin - Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-22. London: John Murray. )
Marbled end paper
Endpaper of a book manually bound in France around 1735 with handcrafted marbled paper. — The book is an edition of Horace’poems (Œuvres d’Horace), Paris 1735.
Marbled end paper
Handcrafted marbled endpaper from a book manually bound in France around 1843. (Title of the book: Œuvres complètes d’Horace, traduction de M. Goupy, quatrième édition, Paris, librairie d’Amyot, éditeur, Rue de la Paix, 6, 1843.)
French Opera House, New Orleans - 1871
French Opera House, New Orleans, 1871. "Loges Grillees", latticed stalls which could be shut or opened for privacy or to socialize.
llustration of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - 1905
llustration of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - 1905
Corset advertisement The Ladies' World - 1896
W. B. Corset; Gracefully; Fitting; Corsets. W. B. Corsets add beauty and grace to any variety of figure and can be hat as easily as the awkward, uncomfortable kind. Made with 3, 5 and 6-hook clasps and in short medium, long, and extra long waist.
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Hamlin's Wizard Oil - 1890
English: Hamlin's Wizard Oil, the greatest family remedy for rheumatism, neuralgia, toothache, headache, diphtheria, sore throat, lame back, sprains, bruises, corns, cramps, colic, diarrhœa and all pain and inflammation. Sold by all druggists. Advertising for turn-of-the-century miracle cure, chromolithograph by Hughes Lithographers, Chicago. Undated, estimated to be from around 1890.
