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Wedding Dress, 1887 (x)

gravesandghouls:

Victorian Batlady costume c. 1880’s

gravesandghouls:

Victorian bat costume c. 1882

gravesandghouls:

Costume c. 1880’s-1890

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse, 1886

gravesandghouls:

Victorian bat costume c. 1882

omgthatdress:

Corset

1883

The Victoria & Albert Museum

omgthatdress:

Corset ca. 1883 via The Victoria & Albert Museum

willigula:

“Shipwrecked sailors attacked by man-eating sharks” - illustration from Sea and Land: An Illustrated History by JW Buel, 1887

Illustration of Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Raven, 1883 by Gustave Dore

turnofthecentury:

blackandwtf:1880s

Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868. Rather than having a parasitic twin, Myrtle’s extra legs resulted from an even rarer form of conjoined twinning known as dipygus, which gave her two complete bodies from the waist down. She had two small pelves side-by-side, and each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs. She could move the smaller legs but was unable to use them for walking. At the age of 19, she married a doctor named Clinton Bicknell and had four daughters and a son. It has been said that three of her children were born from one set of organs, two from the other. Myrtle died on May 6, 1928.

via phreeque

1880’s health book anatomy

From Ladies Health Book publishes in the 1880’s

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1885, [portrait of a woman in a celestial dress]

via KingKongPhoto’s photostream on Flickr