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#FolkloreThursday Jack Frost costume by Wilhelm, 1894.
https://t.co/utQgguE27S

#FolkloreThursday "Pearls mean tears" also applies to the tears of mourning. Pearls are used to symbolise grief in mourning jewels.
https://t.co/mzUXtIDY8D
Cowans Auctions
Skinner Auctions
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Early 1880s all-crape mourning bonnet. 1883 mourning costume
https://t.co/gGtOg2Ojm8

For #ForteanFriday in advance of setting the clocks back this weekend, "Tick-Tock - A Medium Clock." A mediumistic clock communicated accurate information by ticks and tocks.
https://t.co/2aEH34iSTa

#DíadeLosAngelitos A white-draped Mexican street-car hearse used for children, Mexico City, 1912
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#Halloweencostume inspiration for Foodies.
Lady-fingers. Pumpkin. Scallion. Potato.
All V&A collection

Executed #OTD in 1915, nurse Edith Cavell, who cared for German and Allied soldiers alike. Her murder inspired many grim images.
The Red Cross nurse holding German and British flags is said to be an image of Cavell.
https://t.co/uNZl4PK31Y
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "Mary Stuart" mourning bonnets with ruche, c. 1897 and c. 1911. The illustration shows nun's veiling; the extant example's veil is crape.

https://t.co/84tUKhaYbX

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "Lost," W.J. Perry, engraved by C.M. Jenkin, 1871-72.

#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead #LaborDayWeekend The Consumptive Seamstress
from "How to Keep Well," by Dr. Evans, 1917
And The Wretched Sewing Girl, c. 1860