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- A Karnak Beggar 1866 visits
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- Fashionable lady 1920's 3227 visits
- Another picture that rises simultaneously before the eyes of the masses as representing those queens in America, to whom more ready homage is paid than was ever accorded to a coronet or crown, is our Frances Cleveland. Ours, because the “Common People” claim her, as only an ordinary, sweet, lovely, modest American woman. 1903 visits
- Image 10164 4145 visits
- 1804 4022 visits
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- A seated man reading a book 3795 visits
- From the painting by R.W. MacBeth, A.R.A. 3593 visits
- Among the earliest innovations after the Restoration to which the Japanese people took kindly was the clipping of their queues. In the old days men had little queues on the top of their heads. For this purpose they shaved the crown and gathering the hair around, tied it at the top with a piece of paper string; then, they bent the queue and bringing it down forward over the forehead, fastened it with the ends of the same string so that the queue was tied tightly to the first knot. The end of the queue was cut straight. Fashion often changed in the making of the queue, though its general form remained unaltered. The bend, for instance, between the two knots might vary in size and shape, and the queue itself in length and thickness, its girth being regulated by the extent of the tonsure at the crown. Or the hair might be full or tight at the sides and the back. The front was usually shaved. In short, there was a wide scope for taste in the dressing of the queue. These queues were untied and remade every second or third day, and the head was shaved at the same time. Hair-dressing was therefore a troublesome business, especially as one had generally to get assistance for it. Consequently, when the cropping of the hair came into vogue, people eagerly adopted it as it saved them time and expense. At first they cut the hair long, letting it half hide the ears and come down to the neck behind; but it became shorter by degrees until now the fashion is to crop it to about a quarter of an inch, presenting a head which is appropriately known as “chestnut-bur.” 9148 visits
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- Lady standing in black dress 4823 visits
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- Two men sitting in the garden chatting 2992 visits
- Man filling up his glass 3350 visits
- Man with cane 4102 visits
- Domestic scene 3102 visits
- Girls sitting on a bench at school reading 1732 visits
- Young lady talking to man with monocle on a sofa 2767 visits
- Young Lady writing 2436 visits
- Lady Reading the Bible 2444 visits
- Man and woman sitting at the table talking 2709 visits
- Man (reading a newspaper) looks unconvinced as his wife explains the need of a new hat 2824 visits
- Man and woman sitting cozily in front of a fire. 2421 visits
- A family sitting around reading 3585 visits
- Young lady writing 2496 visits
- Couple sitting on the grass in a park 2191 visits
- Two gentlemen talking 2250 visits
- Man looking up from his reading and smiling 4136 visits
- Three men talking 2091 visits
- Young lady sitting thoughtfully in an arbor in the garden holding a book 2043 visits
- Young lady bursting into tears at some bad news 2085 visits
- Seated couple watching a group of people 2229 visits
- Headdress of the Lady on the Right.—Hair in bandeaux à la Niobe; torsade of pearls. Moire dress, low body, with progressive revers opening over a modestie of embroidered muslin edged with lace; short open sleeves à la Watteau; undersleeves of embroidered muslin; half-long gloves; bracelets of pearls, or more often worn different, according to choice. The other Figure (Lady seated).—Cap of tulle trimmed with lace and ribbon. Low body, with revers open to waist; loose bell-shaped sleeves, edged with a bouillonne; two skirts trimmed with the same; modestie of embroidered muslin, edged with point de Venise; black velvet bracelets, half-long gloves, and Venetian fan. 4588 visits
- Harriet Martineau 1380 visits