A peep into time and life of 1800's through some rare fascinating images

Feb 1, 2017 11:09 AM

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Child Laborers in 1880

Woman with Kodak camera, c1900

Female prisoners at the Andaman Cellular Jail, India 1860

The Shambles,York. 1880.

Children New York 1880

U.S. Quartermasters Dept., photograph taken November 1864

Brooklyn Cable Car System Under Construction, 1880

Family portrait of an English colonial official with his Indian servants - Northeast India c.1880

The last Mughal Emperor of India, Bahadur Shah in 1858 before his exile to Burma. This is possibly the only photo ever taken of a Mughal Emperor.

Kids playing beside a decaying horse, years before any sanitation efforts were implemented. Late 1880’s. New York

Chinese Opium Den, circa 1880

Runaway Slave Ads in the June 14th, 1830 issue of “Georgia Courier.”

Brisbane’s first railway carriage, ca.1868

Paris 1890

pice Bazaar somewhere in British India, 1875

Making spoons. Russian Empire, 1897

Wall Street, 1883

On July 1, 1893, at the excavation of Delphi near the Temple of Apollo, archaeologists uncovered a near-perfectly preserved, still-upright statue of Antinous, the lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

American town n men 1850

Train Wagon, 1895

Roses, 1860

Greyfriars Cemetery Edinburgh c. 1850

Times of India office in Bombay , 1898

Constant Puyo, Au Jardin Fleuri ,1899

Fine day in London, 1896

Somewhere in France 1899

A house in France 1890

1900

Bossetti, Lago di Como, via Sa Bellagio Salita, Circa 1875

Dresden Castle at Night, 1870s

London, 1899

Paris 1900

Cool that some of these are clearly early photography as an art form, not just as a novelty.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

First one looks like a scene from the peeky blinders!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Opium "den"? Looks like after the photo they were "Alright, let's go back to playing polo."

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Love these.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Normally I'm against kids smoking but, dang, if you got a job and all...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Pretty sure the Russian guys making the spoons also made their own bowls, which they used to give themselves haircuts.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Guy on the left in the Quartermasters pic looks like Eddie Redmayne

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And people today say "I was born in the wrong era!" Bitch shut up and eat your fifth big Mac.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Sometimes I think I would have liked to live in the late 1800s, but then I remember air conditioning

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And vaccines. Electricity. Hygiene. Labor laws. Gabe the Dog. Sometimes I need to stop and remember how good we have it

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Love looking at old photos of another era

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wow these are new to me! I mean old...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Doses haven't changed in over 100 years...crazy how nature do dat

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Edit: Roses

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Interesting. Take my upvote.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#10, isn't that gutter also the sewer?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well they are chillin next to a dead horse so let's say yes.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The child labourers in the first picture are tougher than 99% of adults today.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Once again an awesome post by OP. Thank you! So fascinating. Those newspapers for runaway slaves. Wow.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Cool pics. Thanks!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Those kids in #1 are older than I'll ever be

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#31 nowadays http://imgur.com/qQzdLsP

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Shorpy.com has thousands of old photos for your perusing pleasure. Been going there for years.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Great ! Thanks for sharing. I have a good amount of classic images, but never knew of this site ! Today was a good day !

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Most excellent, thank you.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 was an informal agreement between the US & Japan that agreed to limit immigration between the 2 countries

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is why I like shows like Copper and Ripper Street; although they're fictional, but they don't shy away from the ugliness of the past

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

ah the 1800's. When the men were men. Women were men. And children were men

9 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

And horses slept in the gutter after a long night out

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

LOVE these!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The first one is literally the cover of an album by the Walkmen

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

#1 so you don't have to scroll

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It is! That's where I recognized it from. I have that cd. Thanks for pointing that out!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Great CD. I miss that band.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So did they make the picture for the album, or did they use a pre existing photo for the album?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a photo of newsies by Lewis Hine from 1910. Not sure where OP is getting his/her info. It's a photo from the metmuseum archives.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I was just pointing out that these photos aren't exactly rare.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where do you get these from ? Just curious

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

:)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

París 1890 , London1896 and Dresden 187x look like drawings or too much digital enhancing

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Uh, dude, no. That's how non-film photos look.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

only said that they looked like it, not that they were. Seeing the pictures on a PC changes the image and now I can see that they are photos

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

when I saw them on my pad they looked different. for example the Paris had a gradient of blue hue to sepia from left to right, which implied

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

cyanotype and sepia toning having been used. It was just how my pad processed the image

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh, I thought you were referring to wet colodion or daguerrotype artifacts, but as it turns out, you know your photographic stuff :D

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope, just an amateur and I stick to 35mm, got 5 analog cams. I wish I had the time, money and chems for the real old school photography

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Shambles still looks like that now

9 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Yep - just more tourists!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just more adverts (streetview)

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Oh via vechia is still there love his bread

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Was going to say York is still very much medieval in parts, my favourite city!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

as would any big city in germany, if you didnt bomb them to carpet height, bloody island monkeys

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I lived and worked there for a while in a shop.that was ina 16th century building nothing special just a shop

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My kids used to play in the roman stone coffins inside the tower in the museum gardens

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

These are cool and all but can we stop calling them rare after they've been posted on a social media site?

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 14

Well I've never seen them before

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The rare stands and refers to the time stamp,meaning there arent many snaps you will see of that time period,unlike today when every passin+

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

second of ones life ends up for the whole world to see,thanks to the social media ! So,the scarcity of time documentation for that period+

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

makes, what ever little we have as rare ! ;)

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Neat

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That makes a lot more sense, I'm used to people referring to the pictures themselves as rare

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1