Victorian Lady
Historical; Not from any particular show. I borrowed the dress from a friend who is obsessed with the Victorian era, she made the whole outfit. pale blue plaid.
The Victorian Era was the period from 1837 to 1901, the length of the rule of Great Britain's Queen Victoria. In America, this meant Civil War era and Wild West.
There was prostitution, gambling, promiscuity, and lots of alcohol; but people tried to maintain an outwardly proper social etiquette and strict gender divides.
Top hats, and hoop skirts. You might have noticed there are several books, movies, shows, and stories based in the Victorian era, this is because of Linotype printing machine, invented in 1883, allowed for much faster printing of many more papers/books. Gutenberg invented the first printing press to mass produce the Bible in the 1400s, so by the 1800s technology had improved, and books were common.
In America, the most notable events were the several Wars resulting from the country’s expansion. The Mexican War. This War between the States and Mexico ended and allowed the States to purchase land from Mexico, including parts of Texas, New Mexico and California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and part of Colorado. And later, more of Arizona and New Mexico. Then the American Civil War, regarding the practice of Slavery in the United States. Abraham Lincoln, Union forces & Confederacy, Emancipation Proclamation. Civil Rights Act of 1866, was the first federal law protecting the rights of African Americans, and was immediately followed by the founding of the KKK, intended to discourage blacks from voting, dispensing a brutal and shameful era of terror and crime amid southern states.
And years and years of warfare with the Native American Indians. The Victorian era was famous for wars and injustices toward Native Americans, and if constant battle wasn't enough, for every Native American killed by a bullet, a thousand more died from European plagues. The more people who immigrated westward, the more conflicts occurred with Native American Indians. Including the largest mass execution in U.S. history, over late payments of annuities, which culminates in the jailing of over one thousand Dakota Sioux, and the hanging of thirty-eight in Mankato.
So yes, lots of wars with the indigenous people, ending with Indian reservations, which cleared the way for more westward immigration.
The western states was an emerging patchwork of homestead farmers, miners, and cattle ranchers. Mining towns in the American Wild West were exactly what you'd image; a saloon with swinging doors and a player piano. For a while, the town thrived, but eventually the mines were exhausted, and the towns inhabitants would leave, leaving behind nothing but a ghost town. Recent inventions; like the telephone, light bulb, and the dynamo (a generator), all required copper metal, so ‘mining’ was a necessity, but the unregulated mining wrought havoc on the local environment. People rushed around chasing the mining operations. California Gold Rush 1849. And later the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush. Then in Leadville in 1873.
Life in the western mining towns contributed much to the legendary lore of the American West.
The ethnic diversity patchwork in the mining towns was great and intricate, but the socio-economic ladder was clearly defined.
Whites owned and managed all of the mines. Poor whites, Mexicans, and Chinese Americans worked the mine shafts. A few African Americans joined them, but many worked in the service sector as cooks or artisans.
The archetypal lasso-carrying Texas cowboy existed between 1866 and 1889. About a quarter of all cowboys were African Americans, and even more were at least partially Mexican. But by the early 1870s, railway lines reached Texas, so the cattle could be shipped directly to the slaughterhouses, so cowboys were no longer needed. Ranchers then began to allow cattle to graze on the ‘open range’ near rail heads. But then the invention of barbed wire ruined the concept of 'open range'. With the ability to cheaply marked their territory, overproduction occurred and prices fell, which lead many ranchers out of business.
The railway changed a lot of things. The government was giving land away to people [who had lived or made improvements to the land], and with the transcontinental railroad, it was now possible for east coast people yearning for the West to make it happen.
It took months to travel from the east to west coast, and the lives they found when they arrived were fraught with hardship. Machinery and fertilizer was needed to farm on a large scale, so many farmers borrowed money to purchase this equipment, leaving themselves hopelessly in debt when the harvest came. The amount of land being cultivated increased dramatically, coupled with new farming techniques which produced greater and greater yields, so the agriculture/food market became so saturated with merchandise that prices fell sharply. Causing economic instability throughout the country.
Other things happened too, the World's Fair was created. Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". The invention of the motorized sewing machine. Oregon becomes a state. Mormons settle at Salt Lake City. Abraham Lincoln. Telegraph machines. Edgar Allen Poe. Baseball was invented. Mark Twain's "Huck Finn". The US purchases Alaska from Russia. Thomas Edison. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. The 15th Amendment, and 1 year later, the NRA.
Susan B Anthony. Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang engage in the first successful train robbery. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The first synthetic plastic. ect.
Pictures taken in the home and at the Charles Dickens Christmas Fair. in 2017, 2018, 2019, pandemic, 2022, 2023, ect
The Victorian Era was the period from 1837 to 1901, the length of the rule of Great Britain's Queen Victoria. In America, this meant Civil War era and Wild West.
There was prostitution, gambling, promiscuity, and lots of alcohol; but people tried to maintain an outwardly proper social etiquette and strict gender divides.
Top hats, and hoop skirts. You might have noticed there are several books, movies, shows, and stories based in the Victorian era, this is because of Linotype printing machine, invented in 1883, allowed for much faster printing of many more papers/books. Gutenberg invented the first printing press to mass produce the Bible in the 1400s, so by the 1800s technology had improved, and books were common.
In America, the most notable events were the several Wars resulting from the country’s expansion. The Mexican War. This War between the States and Mexico ended and allowed the States to purchase land from Mexico, including parts of Texas, New Mexico and California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and part of Colorado. And later, more of Arizona and New Mexico. Then the American Civil War, regarding the practice of Slavery in the United States. Abraham Lincoln, Union forces & Confederacy, Emancipation Proclamation. Civil Rights Act of 1866, was the first federal law protecting the rights of African Americans, and was immediately followed by the founding of the KKK, intended to discourage blacks from voting, dispensing a brutal and shameful era of terror and crime amid southern states.
And years and years of warfare with the Native American Indians. The Victorian era was famous for wars and injustices toward Native Americans, and if constant battle wasn't enough, for every Native American killed by a bullet, a thousand more died from European plagues. The more people who immigrated westward, the more conflicts occurred with Native American Indians. Including the largest mass execution in U.S. history, over late payments of annuities, which culminates in the jailing of over one thousand Dakota Sioux, and the hanging of thirty-eight in Mankato.
So yes, lots of wars with the indigenous people, ending with Indian reservations, which cleared the way for more westward immigration.
The western states was an emerging patchwork of homestead farmers, miners, and cattle ranchers. Mining towns in the American Wild West were exactly what you'd image; a saloon with swinging doors and a player piano. For a while, the town thrived, but eventually the mines were exhausted, and the towns inhabitants would leave, leaving behind nothing but a ghost town. Recent inventions; like the telephone, light bulb, and the dynamo (a generator), all required copper metal, so ‘mining’ was a necessity, but the unregulated mining wrought havoc on the local environment. People rushed around chasing the mining operations. California Gold Rush 1849. And later the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush. Then in Leadville in 1873.
Life in the western mining towns contributed much to the legendary lore of the American West.
The ethnic diversity patchwork in the mining towns was great and intricate, but the socio-economic ladder was clearly defined.
Whites owned and managed all of the mines. Poor whites, Mexicans, and Chinese Americans worked the mine shafts. A few African Americans joined them, but many worked in the service sector as cooks or artisans.
The archetypal lasso-carrying Texas cowboy existed between 1866 and 1889. About a quarter of all cowboys were African Americans, and even more were at least partially Mexican. But by the early 1870s, railway lines reached Texas, so the cattle could be shipped directly to the slaughterhouses, so cowboys were no longer needed. Ranchers then began to allow cattle to graze on the ‘open range’ near rail heads. But then the invention of barbed wire ruined the concept of 'open range'. With the ability to cheaply marked their territory, overproduction occurred and prices fell, which lead many ranchers out of business.
The railway changed a lot of things. The government was giving land away to people [who had lived or made improvements to the land], and with the transcontinental railroad, it was now possible for east coast people yearning for the West to make it happen.
It took months to travel from the east to west coast, and the lives they found when they arrived were fraught with hardship. Machinery and fertilizer was needed to farm on a large scale, so many farmers borrowed money to purchase this equipment, leaving themselves hopelessly in debt when the harvest came. The amount of land being cultivated increased dramatically, coupled with new farming techniques which produced greater and greater yields, so the agriculture/food market became so saturated with merchandise that prices fell sharply. Causing economic instability throughout the country.
Other things happened too, the World's Fair was created. Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". The invention of the motorized sewing machine. Oregon becomes a state. Mormons settle at Salt Lake City. Abraham Lincoln. Telegraph machines. Edgar Allen Poe. Baseball was invented. Mark Twain's "Huck Finn". The US purchases Alaska from Russia. Thomas Edison. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. The 15th Amendment, and 1 year later, the NRA.
Susan B Anthony. Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang engage in the first successful train robbery. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The first synthetic plastic. ect.
Pictures taken in the home and at the Charles Dickens Christmas Fair. in 2017, 2018, 2019, pandemic, 2022, 2023, ect
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