Imagine an almost instantaneous communication system that would allow people and governments all over the world to send and receive messages about politics, war, illness, and family events. The government has tried and failed to control it, and its revolutionary nature is trumpeted loudly by its backers...
Part project book and part history lesson, this unmatched collection of lace patterns offers techniques for embellishment and edging to shawls and scarves. The 40 projects are deciphered, rewritten, charted, and adapted for modern tools and fibers, and are presented with full-color photos and illustrations of both the works-in-progress and the finished items...
Noted photo-historian documents bonnets, capes, caps, shawls, bodices and crinolines as people actually wore them—from 1840 to 1914. 235 early photos show aristocrats and the middle class (as well as Oscar Wilde, Lily Langtry, G...
"[Flanders] knows what we want to know and is thoroughly engaging, undidactic company."--Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands...
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history...
Manners & Morals of Victorian America is your gateway to the fashionable world of Victorian America. It draws from the wealth of late 19th and early twentieth etiquette books. With over 400 historic engravings and illustrations, the book details virtually every aspect of Victorian life, including the proper conduct for courtship and wooing, duties of husbands and wives, how to deal with a rejected suitor and even carriage and motoring manners.
Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects—these are among the Victorian experiments in photocollage seen and explained in this marvelous book...
It's the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie's husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she owns to pay off a debt...
Over 700 borders, frames, corners, scrollworks, cartouches, florals, vases, geometrics, figures, rosettes, all in high Victorian style.
Day costumes, evening wear, sports clothes, shoes, hats, other accessories in over 1,000 detailed engravings. Very thorough identification of styles, materials, colors by editor. "An endlessly entertaining book...
All the hat your neck can carry!
Elegant Victorian style has never been so affordable! No detail has been overlooked in the design of this easily assembled wooden dollhouse. Excellent quality and distinctive detailing throughout the interior and exterior of this house will make it an heirloom to be cherished for years to come! Scale 1:12.
Contains all 6 furniture sets to complete the Victorian Dollhouse by Melissa & Doug.
The charming Melissa and Doug Victorian Doll Family includes a mother, father, daughter, and baby girl, for hours of pretend play! Each vinyl doll features bendable limbs, lifelike details, and beautiful fabric clothing...
This is an 11inch collector doll. Victorian styling with finely railored clothing. Ships w/i 24 hours Monday-Friday, priority mail at no extra charge.
Beautiful collector doll dressed Victorian style with beautifully tailored garments.
Bisque porcelain head, neck, hands and feet. Body is soft filled. Comes on a stand in box. Ships within 24 hours M-F from Las Vegas
Each floor of this Victorian Dollhouse is accessible with opening panels, giving your child lots of floor space to play with their imaginary families. Realistic window sashes that slide open and shut, and the additional attic space can be made into any kind of room your child desires...
Barbie is all ready for afternoon tea in her white and pink satin dress. Her hair is pinned in a bun, and she has pearl earrings and a straw hat. Special-edition slip-case box displays both the Barbie doll and tea set
Equipped with an oven sink dining corner and plenty of accessories the Playmobil Kitchen is the perfect accessory for the Playmobil Grande Mansion. Accessories include mom son pots utensils food and more...
LADY LYDIA is one of the dolls in the Fall 2009 Golden Keepsakes Collection. Designed by professional artists, this doll is delicately handcrafted with the finest materials. This doll is a Limited Edition...