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Godey's Lady's Book, November 1861

Godey's Lady's Book, November 1861.  Photo credit: CharmaineZoe's Marvelous Melange / Foter.com / CC BY

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Godey's Lady's Book, November 1864.

Godey's Lady's Book, November 1864. Photo credit: CharmaineZoe's Marvelous Melange / Foter.com / CC BY

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Morning dress/wrapper, ca. 1860

Morning dress/wrapperDate: ca. 1860Culture: AmericanMedium: cottonDimensions: [no dimensions available]Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin R. Metcalf, 1969Accession Number: C.I.69.32.3Metropolitan Museum...

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Opera Hood pattern/instructions. Peterson's Magazine, 1862.

Opera Hood pattern/instructions.  Peterson's Magazine, 1862.   Princeton University via Google Play. 

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Princess Sophia Sergeievna Troubetskoy, n.d.

Princess Sophia Sergeievna Troubetskoy, Born in St. Petersburg in the year 1838, officially the daughter of Prince Sergei Troubetzkoy, cavalry lieutenant, and Ekaterina Petrovna Moussine-Pushkin,...

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Portrait d'Adèle Hugo (Portrait of Adele Hugo, daughter of author Victor...

Portrait d'Adèle Hugo (Portrait of Adele Hugo, daughter of author Victor Hugo)ca. 1855Musée d'Orsay

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Portrait d'Elisabeth-Ann, dite Miss Harriet Howard: 1850

Henriette Jacotte CappelaerePortrait d'Elisabeth-Ann, dite Miss Harriet Howard1850Château de Compiègne

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Bal Mabille, n.d.

Bal MabillleCharles VernierBal MabillePhoto (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Agence BullozParis, musée CarnavaletThe Bal Mabille was an outdoor dance spot in Paris, hugely popular with the more privileged...

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La Bal Mabille, 1858

La Bal Mabille, 1858Lithographby A. ProvostAnne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library From Wikipedia:  The Bal Mabille, also known as Jardin Mabille and Mabille Gardens in English,...

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Four piece reception gown, ca. 1865.

Four piece reception gown, ca. 1865. Elegant 4-piece reception gown made of grey-blue silk, ca. 1865, from the end of the American Civil War. Overskirt, peplum and neckline/neck decolletage are...

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Madame Pierre-Paul Pecquet du Bellet, née Sarah Anne Elisabeth Moncure, ca. 1857

Eugène QuesnetMadame Pierre-Paul Pecquet du Bellet, née Sarah Anne Elisabeth Moncureca. 1857Blérancourt, musée franco-américain du château de Blérancourt

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Les enfants de M. Pierre-Paul Pecquet du Bellet ca. 1859

Eugène QuesnetLes enfants de M. Pierre-Paul Pecquet du Belletca. 1859Blérancourt, musée franco-américain du château de Blérancourt

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Wool & linen day dress, 1858-60

Wool & linen day dress1858-1860Stiftelsen Nordiska museet via Europeana blog

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Lace cap, ca. 1860

Lace capca. 1860Material: silkStiftelsen Nordiska museet via Europeana blog 

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Lace cap, 1860-75

Lace cap1860-1875Materials:  silkStiftelsen Nordiska museet via Europeana Blog 

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Pair of piqué earrings, tortoiseshell, inlaid with gold and silver, 1850.

Pair of piqué earrings, tortoiseshell, inlaid with gold and silver, 1850. Tortoiseshell, inlaid with gold and silver.Identifier:  M.73&A-1916Date: 1845/1854Made in: EnglandSize or duration:  Height...

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Gold fringe earrings, 1857

Pair of gold earrings in the form of plaited fringes and ovoid drops, design was registered by Sparrow Brothers, England (London), 1857. Gold.Identifier:M.257&A-1925Date:1857-03-02Provenance:...

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17th century style earrings, made by Schlichtegroll, Austria (Vienna), about...

Pair of 17th century-style earrings, silver-gilt painted in imitation of enamel and set with almandine garnets, emeralds, pastes and pearls, made by Schlichtegroll, Austria (Vienna), about 1855. Silver...

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Portrait of Jeanina Baroness Stampe (1833-1867) n.d.

Wilhelm Marstrand (1810-1873)Portrait of Jeanina Baroness Stampe (1833-1867)n.d.Repository unknownvia International Auctioneers

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The Governess, ca. 1854

REBECCA SOLOMON (1832-1886)THE GOVERNESS. 'YE, TOO, THE FRIENDLESS, YET DEPENDENT, THAT FIND NOR HOME, NOR LOVER. SAD IMPRISONED HEARTS, CAPTIVE TO THE NET OF CIRCUMSTANCE.' (MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER,...

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