They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

Many people of the late 19th century must have liked seeing, and being, women adorned with large, enhanced backsides. To suggest that fashion is a cycle divorced from context is to suggest it ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

A circa 1825 sampler made by Ann E. Kelly at Leah Maguire's school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kelly Marshall. Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten, but Leah Maguire of ...

In the 18th and 19th century, ... men who wore mercury hats or women who wore arsenic-laced clothing and accessories might have seen the people who produced these items on the streets of ...