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50 Amazing Vintage Wedding Photos From the 1920s

45 Incredible Photos That Show the 19th Century World

**A young lady by the river, circa 1860s**

**A couple in front of their house, circa 1860s**

**A farmer with his horse and wagon, circa 1860s**

**Ballarat Hospital, Victoria, Australia, circa 1860**

**A woman in her carriage and a man in a top hat looking on, Brighton, circa 1862-1867**

**Mother and her children. Dated on the back “July 19, 1863”**

**Benedictine monastery in Burgundy’s Morvan Forest, France, 1865**

**A group of people taken in a forest setting, 1865**

**Castle and Chapel on St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, 1865**

**Princess of Wales and her sons, 1866**

**Big house on the prairie, circa 1870s**

**A carriage painter and trimmer’s workshop, circa 1870s**

**An older British man with his arm resting on a fence in an outdoor setting, circa 1870s**

**An unknown household, its two children, and their dogs, circa 1870s**

**The main street of a rural North American town, 1870**

**A row of buildings with a mule drawn cart and its driver, 1880**

**An 1880s photo by photographer James P. Lind of Melbourne of some tired looking kids and their teachers from an unidentified school in Victoria, Australia**

**Victorian family home, somewhere in Victoria, Australia, 1880**

**J. Newson’s Hay & Corn Store at 318 Victoria Street, Richmond, on the corner with Johnson Street, 1885**

**The Pottergate, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, 1885**

**Vance’s Mill in Chalybeate Spring, Kentucky, 1889**

**A man on horseback at ‘Pepper Corn Tree Farm’, Leichardt, Victoria, 1890**

**A steam train and its drivers, Michigan, 1890**

**A uniformed man standing in the snow in front of a railway bridge, somewhere in Canada, 1890**

**Men in front of a tent, somewhere in Victoria, Australia, 1890**

**Staged execution. Dated July 21st 1890 on the back, with the name Myra R. Wonderly and the address Grand Rapids, Michigan also inscribed**.

**The famous ruins of Tintern Abbey, Wales, 1890**

**A family apparently on a seaside holiday, somewhere in England, 1895**

**A family in front of their house in Sydney, New South Wales, 1895**

**Written on the back: “Bell Bird’s Nest”, near Gosford, New South Wales, Australia, 1899**

54 Beautiful Photos of Women From the 1940s

50 Beautiful Color Photos Show Life in York County, Pennsylvania During the 1950s

Created in 1749 from part of Lancaster County and named either after the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England, York County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Its county seat is York.

York County comprises the York-Hanover, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area. It is in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural region in South Central Pennsylvania.

These beautiful slides were found by Jan Paul Arends via Flickr that captured everyday life of York County, Pennsylvania in the 1950s.

45 Incredible Photos Showing Victorian Era People at Work.

**Barges at Brigg, North Lincolnshire, 1901**

**C J Kino, 164 Fenchurch Street, City of London, 1888**

**Charwelton Station, Northamptonshire, 1900**

**Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company Limited, Alma Street, Coventry, 1897**

**Early Blanket Factory, Witney, Oxfordshire, 1880s**

**Fisher Row, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1900**

**Fishermen on the Shore at Deal, Kent, 1890**

**Frank Cooper’s Works, Victoria Buildings, Park End Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1900**

**Fruit seller at Castle Green, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, 1898**

**King Street, Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead, 1880s**

**Packing fish, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, 1896**

**Pembroke College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1890s**

**Royal Cafe, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, 1888**

**The Field Offices, Breams Buildings, City of London, 1891**

**Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Warehouse, Oxford Road, Manchester, 1900**

**Tower Bridge Hotel, Tower Bridge Road, Southwark, London, 1897**

**Two servants, Byfield, Northamptonshire, 1901**

**Workers at Charwelton, Northamptonshire, 1900**

**A man takes a cooling drink from a stall. The vendor stands nearby on a crate. 1898**

**A view of a food stall at a fairground. The man in the centre may be looking after a hot fat fryer, perhaps for making chips. 1898**

**The Temperance Sweep’ and a barefooted boy small enough to fit inside narrow passages. 1870s**

**A Victorian shellfish stall holder selling oysters and whelks. 1870s**

**A street locksmith mending locks at his stall on the spot. 1877**

**Victorian ‘Mush-Fakers’ and ginger beer makers with their cart. 1877**

**A Victorian fruit seller shouts out ‘strawberries, all ripe, all ripe’ in a London street. 1873**

**A street trader and shoeshine in Victorian London. 1870s**

**A Victorian fancy wear dealer selling ornaments from his barrow. 1870s**

**Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company, 1875**

**First electric-cables being laid in Bristol’s High Street, 1893**

**This image from Jevington, East Sussex in 1888 shows how a cornstack was built.**

**A group of fisherman pose on the beachfront in Sheringham in Norfolk in 1893**

**Construction of Manchester Ship Canal, 1889**

**J Plater’s Cart, Van & Carriage Works, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, 1900**.

**Workers start the new Stockport Viaduct, which became the biggest brick structure in Europe. 1840s**

**Victorian children in their Sunday best get in on the picture at Manchester House hosier and draper, with its bunting of stockings. 1888**

**Circus performers bring their instruments and exotic animals to Taplow in Buckinghamshire in 1885**

**London postmen meet the Mail Train, 1898**

**London, A Ginger Cake Seller, Greenwich 1884.**

45 Stunning Photos of Actress Mara Corday in the 1950s

The actress was born Marilyn Watts in Santa Monica, California, 17 years before she put her foot on the bottom step of the show biz ladder, dancing in the back row of the chorus in “Earl Carroll’s Revue” at the famed showman’s theater-restaurant in Hollywood. Modeling for photographers led to wider exposure and ultimately to TV roles and bit parts in low-budget movies. As a Universal-International contract player, she was in most every type of B picture that the studio made. She gave up acting in the early ’60s to concentrate on marriage and motherhood during 17 tumultuous years as the wife of actor Richard Long. Since his 1974 death, she’s played supporting parts in her friend Clint Eastwood’s movies, just as he played a supporting role in one of hers (Tarantula (1955)). IMDB

43 Amazing Colourized Photographs Of Canadian Soldiers During The Great War

40 Amazing Color Photos Showing Everyday Women’s Style of the 1940s

46 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Wartime Weddings of Soldiers from the Past

28 Incredible Vintage Photos of Women Riding Side-Saddle During the Victorian Era

For women, sitting aside on a horse dates back to antiquity. For the main part, men rode horses; women were merely passengers, sitting behind the men, either holding the man around the waist or sitting on a small padded seat or pillion. This was partly due to their long, heavy skirts; it was impractical to ride astride. Also riding side-saddle was seen to preserve the ladies’ modesty.

The idea of it being indecent for a lady to ride astride can be traced back to 1382, when Princess Anne of Bohemia rode side-saddle across Europe on her way to marry King Richard II. Riding side-saddle was seen as a way to protect her virginity. Soon it was considered vulgar for any woman to ride astride.

The sidesaddle was considerably improved over the years, especially during the Victorian period. The first specifically designed side saddle accommodated a women sitting fully sideways in a “planchette” saddle which was like a chair with a footrest.

Women riding alone probably began by ride a standard saddle with one horn. But specially-designed side-saddles were soon developed. Various arrangements of single or double stirrups and pommels were in use, with the women still sitting to the side with both feet side-by side in one or two stirrups or on a shelf.

In the early 20th century it became socially acceptable for women to ride astride while wearing split skirts or breeches, and the side-saddle began to fall out of fashion. The rise of women’s suffrage also played a role; to the Suffragettes, riding side-saddle was a symbol of male domination. And so by 1930, riding astride had become totally acceptable and the preferred method of riding for women.

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