Art Department 1850-1900

Another dictator is dame fashion

Color illustrations of 12 gown styles, hats and accessories through 139 years from 1800 to 1939. Each illustration shows a woman in various poses wearing the dress of the decade, and claims: Styles the Mirror of History, in an editorial about the whims of the fashion industry.

Chicago Tribune 1939-04-09

trialsandarchives:

Ride a Stearns and be content, bicycle advertising poster by Edward Penfield, 1896 (by trialsanderrors)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1890, [Dissection room at a medical school in Bordeaux, France]

via A Morning’s Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive, Stanley B. Burns

venusmilk:

Jugend, 1897
Munich illustrated weekly journal of art and life
G. Hirth’s publishing house in Munich and Leipzig

Illustration by Bernhard Pankok

lushlight:

Clarence White - Ringtoss - 1899

via

vintagegal:

Night people..

Everything else is queued…

dailybungalow:

Anesthetizing a patient prior to an amputation, St. Vincent Hospital, Portland, Oregon, ca. 1892 by Providence Archives, Seattle on Flickr.

Image ID: 53.C13.2

L-R: Rosa Philpott; [unidentified]; [unidentified]; Dr. Andrew C. Smith (d. 1943); Dr. John Kane (intern); Dr. William Boyd; Sr. Andrew.