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Cotton summer dress, ca. 1855

I'm pretty sure Google translate butchered portions of this, but here goes...circa 1855 Women's dress handmade from fine cotton fabric with a printed stripe pattern in white and gray-beige color. Under...

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Group Portrait in a Garden

[Group Portrait of Four Women, Two Men and Three Children in a Garden]Franz Antoine(Austrian, 1814–1882)Date: 1850s–60sMedium: Albumen silver print from glass negativeDimensions: 2.3 x 37.8 cm. (0...

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Silk slippers, 1850s

SlippersDate: 1850sCulture: probably FrenchCredit Line: Gift of Frederic P. Lord MD, 1945Accession Number: C.I.45.117.2a, bMetropolitan Museum of Art

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Afternoon dress, c. 1857

Afternoon dressMedium: Pink silk taffetaDate: c.1857Country: USACredit: Museum PurchaseThis dress is an excellent example of the antebellum silhouette, which was tightly corseted and featured a full,...

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Soirée de feux de Bengale au Vaux-Hall, Parc de Bruxelles

Soirée de feux de Bengale au Vaux-Hall, Parc de BruxellesPetrus van Schendel - ca. 1864Private collectionPainting - oil on canvasHeight: 69 cm (27.17 in.), Width: 99 cm (38.98 in.)Image via the Athenaeum

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Georgian Amethyst Necklace in 15K

Antique Georgian Amethyst Necklace in 15KITEM #500285This romantic late Georgian necklace contains an array of oval amethysts with graduating drops of dangling round and pear shape amethysts. These...

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Cameo: Aphrodite, ca. 1860

Camée 19e siècle en agate, Aphrodite.  (19th century cameo, depicting Aphrodite)Beau camée en agate rubanée, à deux couches (calcédoine beige et blanche), très fort relief, représentant un profil de...

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Printed cotton summer dress, 1855-58

Robe  (Summer dress)Fonction/UtilisationEtévers (between) 1855 et 1858  Robe, en une pièce, petit décolleté, manches en pagode à 3 volants, jupe longue à 5 volants.   (One-piece dress, small neckline,...

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Evening dress/ballgown, ca. 1865

DressNAMEManufacturer:AspOwner:(Anna Friderica) Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, b. KempeManufacturer:W W. Ullberg & Comp.DATING:  1865COLLECTION: HallwylOBJECT GROUP:  22. XXII Wilhelmina von Hallwyl...

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Young girl's dress, ca. 1860

Robe pour une enfant fille  (Young girl's dress)ca. 1860Robe à décolleté ovale, manches courtes, manches à double bouffants et volants, effet de plastron, 2 parements de poches appliqués, jupe à plis....

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Fraktur quilt, 1862 Pennyslvania

Ziegenfuss Quilt, Rolling Stone variationMade for/by Aveline S.A. Ziegenfuss SternMade in Upper Saucon Township, PennsylvaniaDated 186287" x 73.25"IQSC 2010.035.0004This fraktur-inscribed quilt...

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Colonel and Mrs. James A. Whiteside, Son Charles and Servants, 1858-59

Colonel and Mrs. James A. Whiteside, Son Charles and ServantsJames Cameron - circa 1858-1859Painting - oil on canvasHeight: 134.62 cm (53 in.), Width: 190.5 cm (75 in.)Hunter Museum of American Art...

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Unidentified equestrienne

Unidentified EquestrienneAlfred de Dreux, attributedbefore 1860Repository unknown

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Yellow cotton stripe dress, ca. 1850

Object Name:  Dress Object Number: 1966-01-154Description:Dress of printed cotton; repeating design of solid yellow vertical stripe and white stripe with purple and red flowers; off the shoulder...

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A Child's Menagerie, Eastman Johnson 1859

A Child's MenagerieEastman Johnson - 1859Painting - oil on canvasHeight: 25.72 cm (10.13 in.), Width: 30.48 cm (12 in.)Repository unknownImage via the Athenaeum 

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Market by Candlelight, 1865. Petrus van Schendel

Petrus van Schendel (Belgian 1806-1870)Market by Candlelightsigned 'P. van Schendel' (lower right); inscribed 'Je certifié que ce tableau/est peint par moi/1865 Petrus van Schendel' on the reverseoil...

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Ines Moitessier, 1856

Ines MoitessierJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - 1856National Gallery - London (England)Painting - oil on canvasHeight: 120 cm (47.24 in.), Width: 92.1 cm (36.26 in.)Image via the Athenaeum

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Delphine Ingres, nee Ramel, 1859

Delphine Ingres, nee RamelJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - 1859 Painting - oil on canvas Height: 63 cm (24.8 in.), Width: 50 cm (19.69 in.) Oskar Reinhart Collection - Winterthur (Switzerland)

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Coronation gown for Queen Lovisa of Sweden, 1860-65

(Yes, that is how Google translated the (Swedish) description.  And in some of it, your guess is as good as mine; needless to say it's far from perfect.) Coronation gownSHORT DESCRIPTION:Coronation...

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Harper's Weekly, Aug. 26, 1865. NYPL Digital Gallery.

Harper's Weekly, Aug. 26, 1865.  NYPL Digital Gallery. 

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