Three bronze shoes, the first worn on stage by the actress Miss Ada Cavendish. Ladies’ Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century.
Bronze stage shoe of Ada Cavendish with Louis heel. Victorian Era.
Category: 19th Century
Neapolitans eating macaroni. Italian scenery, manners and customs 1809.
The plate represents a country maccaronara; for so are called those public houses where nothing but macaroni is sold; and no village is without them. The Neapolitan macaroni is easily known by not being twisted like that of Genoa, but straight, or bent only at one end.
Embroidered Fukusa. Japan ornamental arts.
Embroidered Fukusa. Japan ornamental arts, by George Ashdown Audsley, 1882.
The lady Franklin Cape. Hawaiian Feather Cape. Feather Art.
Hawaiian Feather Work of the Polynesian natives of the Hawaiian Islands. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
Japan. Ornamental arts. Rich Fabrics for obi or girdle. 19th c.
The fabrics here illustrated show two styles of artistic treatment.
Portrait of MME or a Lady 4 from the painting by Giovanni Boldini.
Belle Époque. Portrait of a Lady by Giovanni Boldini at l’Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889.
Victorian Era. Three fine specimens of the modern shoemaker’s craft.
Victorian Era. Shoemaker’s craft. The cordonnier artist (shoemaker, cobbler) has apparently considered his lines as carefully as the best of yacht builders.
The Ahuula, a Hawaiian feather cloak. The Steen Bille Cape.
The ʻahuʻula is a feather coat reserved for the elite of the Hawaiian archipelago. It was traditionally worn with the mahiole, a feathered cap.
Berbers of Algerian Sahara. Nomadic and sedentary ethnic groups.
The majority of the population of the Sahara consists of Berbers. Her clothing is extraordinarily rich. They obtain their silk fabrics through the mediation of the caravans
Russia. Specimens of Headdress of the women of the people.
These bonnet and cap-like headpieces all originate from Old Russia and are peculiar to the Russian slaves. The specimens shown here come from the governorates of Novgorod, Kaluga, Tver and Kursk.