mariposima:

An Australian icon.  Wonderful photo… that is some tight corset.

asunburntcountry:

Author and feminist Stella Miles Franklin in 1902.

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1890, [nurse taking tea at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London]

via the Wellcome Collection

turnofthecentury:

Ethel Barrymore 

in The Lady of the Camellias 

by Charlotte Fairchild 

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850-2, [Two Gentlemen Playing Checkers], Jeremiah Gurney(?)

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1907, “Mae Gordon’s Original Insane Moving Pedestal”

via the Library of Congress

fyeahfitzgerald:

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Flapper”

“As Fitzgerald would later comment, ‘The Jazz Age had a wild youth and a heady middle age,’ and there is perhaps no better exhibit of its wild youth than the American flapper. Her outward flamboyance - her bobbed hair, her flapping galoshes, her rouged face, her short skirts - made her perhaps the most visible outward representation of the revolution in manners and morals of the postwar generation whose inward spirit was less festive, a spirit echoed in the phrase ‘lost generation.’ Fitzgerald, of course, did not invent the flapper, but he did invent the flapper of fiction, bringing her for the first time to the attention of the more than two and a half million readers of the middle-American mouthpiece, The Saturday Evening Post.”

edwardianera:

Joan of Arc by Gaston Bussière, 1908

edwardianera:

Isolde by Gaston Bussière, 1911

summertime75:

 The London Corset Co (1911)

ornamentedbeing:

Anna Held