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Baked Potato Sellers of the 1800s in England - Baked potato sellers began selling their wares around the late 1830s. The first #potatosellers sold potatoes “roasted as chestnuts … but only on a ... https://t.co/PfNrQroS0H #BakedPotatoes #UKHist
Currently falling down a rabbit hole about Isaac Edrehi, mystic and mythomaniac, who may or may not have been posing as Count Rothschild in the 1830s
Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️@StudioTeaBreak
Mitsuuji with Mountain Roses, by Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni Ⅲ), mid-to-late 1830s (via @JapanTraCul)
My version …
Hot weather. Try it?
"Two dozen lemons must be pared & pressed. Juice poured onto the peels, & remain on them all night, in the morning add two pounds of loaf sugar, a 1/4 of wine, 3/4 boiling water. Blend. Strain through jelly bag until clear."
Elizabeth Rundell 1830s.
At the start of the 1830s, womenswear was exuberant and dramatic, reflecting the Romantic movement. It was characterized by an extraordinary attention to the upper half of the dress and the sleeves. Read more!
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Stereo imagery goes way further back however. The "stereoscope"—introduced by Charles Wheatstone in 1838—used line drawings. Photography was still in its infancy in the 1830s!
Image credit (right): Teylers museum
Poem by Ise no Ôsuke, from the 1830s series Five Poetic Immortals of the Pear-blossom Courtyard
1800s-1830s is cute, soft and elegant, meanwhile the victorian fashion.... just not my fave
historical creek while i procrastinate writing my actual essay about the 1830s #spcreek
Illustrations by Jean-Victor Adam (1801 – 1866), French painter and lithographer (St Petersburg, 1830s).
1. Private of the Life-Guard - Caucasian Squadron
2. Circassian
3. Imeretian
4. Lezghin
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There are certain silhouettes that seem almost too much for their own good. To see an early 1830s fashion plate for the first time, an observer might imagine the drawing is a caricature of a style but to see surviving garments is to realise the illustrator’s accuracy @cincymuseum
Ether: Early Anesthesia and Its First Uses - By the late 1830s, public gatherings referred to as “ether frolics” were being held by wandering lecturers. These gatherings involved audience members inhaling diethyl #ether, ... https://t.co/XlS2ndWPTr #19thcentury #wwwblogs