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27 Stunning Vintage Photos of Brides in Their Victorian Wedding Dresses Before 1900

For the mid-Victorian bride (1870s) there was an emergence of middle class wealth, and with it a display of their new riches. Wedding gowns fashioned by Worth in Paris were the ultimate status symbol. And if one couldn’t afford an original, one copied them. Full court trains were now part of the wedding ensemble, as were long veils, a bustle, elegant details and two bodices–a modest one for the wedding and a low one for special occasions.

The late Victorians (1890s) saw the bustle disappear, a demi-train and large sleeves now in fashion. If the bride married in church, the dress must have a train, with a veil of the same length. The veil could be lace or silk tulle. From the mid-Victorian era to the 1890s, the veil covered the bride’s face and was not lifted until after church. The veil was not used as a shawl after the wedding any more, however. White kid gloves were long enough to tuck under the sleeves, and had a slit in one finger to slip the ring on without removing the glove. Slippers were of white kid, satin or brocade and the heels rose to one inch.

For the widow who remarried in the early and mid-Victorian eras, she did not wear white, had no bridesmaids, no veil and no orange blossoms, (a sign of purity.) She usually wore a pearl or lavender satin gown trimmed with ostrich feathers. In the later decades, she was allowed attendants as well as pages, but no veil or orange blossoms. She could wear a shade or two away from white, preferring rose, salmon, ivory or violet.

**A beautiful bride on her wedding day, 1880s**

**A Victorian bride looking radiantly lovely in her elegant, feminine white dress, 1850s**

**Baroness Christine von Linden on her wedding day, May 13, 1898**

**Bride in exquisite French wedding dress, 1877**

**Florence Folger married William A. Webster in 1887**

**Harriet Louisa Thorne on her wedding day in 1882**

**Lady in beautiful wedding dress in the 1890s**

**Luise Margaret of Prussia’s wedding in 1879**

**Maria Feodorovna in her wedding day, ca. 1860s**

**Princess Alice married Ludwig of Hesse in July 1862**

**Princess Louise on her wedding day in 1871**

**Wedding of Princess Mary of Teck in 1893**

**Wedding portrait of Annie Chinery Cameron, 18 November 1869**

**Young lady poses in her wedding dress, 1885**

38 Stunning Photos of Actress Vivi Bach in the 1960s

Born 1939 in Copenhagen, Danish singer, actress and icon Vivi Bach appeared in 48 films between 1958 and 1974; notably known for Holiday in St. Tropez (1964), Soldaterkammerater rykker ud (1959) and Das Rätsel der roten Quaste (1963).

Bach was nicknamed “the first Danish teenager of Denmark” and “the Danish Brigitte Bardot”. She died in 2013 in Ibiza, Spain, where she lived with her husband, the Austrian film actor Dietmar Schönherr, aged 74.

28 Vintage Photographs of Female Viet Cong Soldiers in the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War still remains controversial and people on both sides suffered immense losses and clearly at least some of these pics are staged, but regardless of your feeling on the issue, these pictures provide a historical reminder of the strength of the women who fought alongside their male counterparts but are often not acknowledged and the harsh reality of wartime that didn’t discriminate by gender.

36 Vintage Photos Showing People in Their Living Rooms during the Victorian & Edwardian Eras

31 Amazing Vintage Photographs Showing Life in Whittier, California During the Early 20th Century

Whittier is located in Los Angeles County, about 12 miles southeast of the City of Los Angeles, California.

The City of Whittier has a diverse and colorful history beginning with the Gabrielino Indians who first inhabited the area during the City’s pre-history. Later, Spanish California (1769-1821) would influence the region with the establishment of both missions and large ranchos. It was the Spanish land grant given to retired solider Jose Manuel Nieto in 1784 that would encompass part of present day Whittier.

During the 1920s and 1930s, residential and commercial development was becoming increasingly geared toward accommodating the automobile. This became evident as residential garages replaced barns and streets were widened and paved with parking spaces to accommodate automobile traffic as the use of public rail for transportation waned and eventually ended in Whittier by 1938.

Here are some rare and amazing vintage photos that show the life in Whittier, California from between the 1900s and 1920s.

**Whittier College Girls Basketball Team in 1900 in front of Founders Hall in Whittier, California.**

**Driving on Turnbull Canyon in Whittier, 1914**

**Whittier, CA Fire Department in 1904**

**Celebrating the building of Turnbull Canyon Road in Whittier, CA, 1913**

**D.E. McDaneld Packard store, vintage cars and lots of girls back in Whittier, California, 1925. They even used girls to sell cars back then!**

**The Greenleaf Hotel on Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier, 1910**

**First National Bank, corner of Greenleaf and Philadelphia in Whittier, California, 1907**

**The Quaker community of Whittier in 1907**

**J.A. Buckmaster Shoe store with owners on Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier, 1910**

**Whittier, California had many walnut trees back in the early 1900s**

**Cabbage packing industry near the Whittier Brick Company in 1910**

**Hazlitt Market and A&R Cleaners on Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier, California, 1920s**

**Walnut shipping at Rivera Freight House, 1925**

**The News, Whittier, CA, 1905. This was the location of the The News and its employees in Whittier, California.**

55 Wonderful Vintage Photos of the 1964 New York World’s Fair

The 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY with numerous pools or fountains, and an amusement park with rides near the lake.

Ran for two six-month seasons, April 22 – October 18, 1964, and April 21 – October 17, 1965, the fair is noted as a showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology. The nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well represented.

More than 51 million people attended the fair, though fewer than the hoped-for 70 million. It remains a touchstone for many American Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War, cultural changes, and increasing domestic violence associated with the Civil Rights Movement.

31 Amazing Vintage Photos of Women Wearing Swimsuits during the 1920s & 1930s

42 Wonderful Photos of Young Couples in the 1950s

24 Rare Portraits of Yoko Ono in the Early 1960s, Before She Married John Lennon

Yoko Ono is a multimedia artist who became known worldwide in the 1960s when she married Beatles front man John Lennon.

Ono first met John Lennon of the Beatles on November 9, 1966, when he visited a preview of her exhibition at the Indica Gallery in London, England. Lennon was taken with the positive, interactive nature of her work. He specifically cited a ladder leading up to a black canvas with a spyglass on a chain, which revealed the word “yes” written on the ceiling. The two began an affair approximately 18 months later. Lennon divorced his first wife, Cynthia (with whom he had a son, Julian, born in 1963), and married Ono on March 20, 1969.

The couple collaborated on art, film and musical projects, and became famous for their series of “conceptual events” to promote world peace, including the “bed-in” held in an Amsterdam hotel room during their honeymoon in 1969. After her marriage to Lennon, Ono struggled with her ex-husband over custody of Kyoko. She recorded the song “Don’t Worry Kyoko” as an effort to reach out to her child. In 1971, her ex-husband disappeared with Kyoko, and Ono did not learn for years what had happened to her daughter. Apparently, Kyoko spent more than a decade living with a religious cult called the Walk with her father.