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Ball’s Health Preserving Corsets — The best in the World
From the Victorian Trade Card collection at the University of Iowa.

Ball’s Health Preserving Corsets — The best in the World

From the Victorian Trade Card collection at the University of Iowa.

A man with a remarkable mustache. From the Victorian studio portrait photograph collection at the University of Missouri. 1880s.

A man with a remarkable mustache. From the Victorian studio portrait photograph collection at the University of Missouri. 1880s.

A pattern for a Masonic antimacassar.
From Arthur’s Lady’s Home Magazine, 1860.

A pattern for a Masonic antimacassar.

From Arthur’s Lady’s Home Magazine, 1860.

The Octagonal Mode of Building.
From The Country Gentleman, 1855.

The Octagonal Mode of Building.

From The Country Gentleman, 1855.

German Spas: Where Nature Cures.
From the 1920s-1930s collection of travel posters at the Los Angeles Public Library.

German Spas: Where Nature Cures.

From the 1920s-1930s collection of travel posters at the Los Angeles Public Library.

“The Profile” John Barrymore in Beau Brummel. 1924.

From the Hollywood movie posters collection at the Los Angeles Public Library.

Ladies’ evening or opera dress. 1810.
From the Joseph E. Casey Fashion Plate Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library.

Ladies’ evening or opera dress. 1810.

From the Joseph E. Casey Fashion Plate Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library.

Gold Spectacles, with colored-glass side-light protectors.
From Spectacles: and how to choose them. An elementary monograph by Charles Harrison Vilas. 1881.

Gold Spectacles, with colored-glass side-light protectors.

From Spectacles: and how to choose them. An elementary monograph by Charles Harrison Vilas. 1881.

Back from an unplanned hiatus… let’s reboot things up with a Pussy Purse. Yep.
From a 1946 American Thread Company knitting/crochet pattern pamphlet.

Back from an unplanned hiatus… let’s reboot things up with a Pussy Purse. Yep.

From a 1946 American Thread Company knitting/crochet pattern pamphlet.

Thanksgiving Day, 1907.
This is a scan of one of my great-grandmother’s postcards. She collected them her entire life.

Thanksgiving Day, 1907.

This is a scan of one of my great-grandmother’s postcards. She collected them her entire life.