American Daguerreotype Portraits of Victorian Women From the 1840's and 1850's: Part 2

A collection of daguerreotype portraits of identified and unidentified women in the United States taken during the 1840's and 1850's. By photographers including Mathew Brady, James Presley Ball, Rufus Anson, and Jacob Byerly.
Source: Library of Congress, Rijksmuseum, J. Paul Getty Museum.
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[@amynutter5050]

my grandmother was born in 186oand and passed away in 1942 I was eleven years old I remember everything about her by the way I'm 87years young looking at all these photos brings back lots of memories

[@Wayner71]

This is only 160 to 170 years ago. Imagine all of the people going about their daily lives for thousands of years before this who remain completely anonymous.

[@waivedwench]

I think a lot about that.

[@Lardenoy]

Elles étaient contemporaines de Schubert, Franz Liszt, des écrivains de l'époque romantique... Fascinant !

[@bonanzatime]

I wonder what the conversation was like between these ladies and photographer. The first one was very attractive. ... I wonder what their lives were like, how did they think and talk. What would they think of cars and planes, and air conditioning? How superstitious would they be? What kind of sense of humor would they have? ?? It makes me sad that they're all dead laying in an old graveyard. Life is weird.

[@haydenwittig8877]

Their lives were very simple diseases like scarlett fever and diphtheria were taking children from 5 to 15 yrs age, Being from the Victorian era it was about stiff upper lip and society manners etc, The women were very feminine and spoke in a very dainty English manner.

[@deeanderson4164]

I think the same way :-) What were those lives like?

[@michaelshaw7555]

Yes, the lady at 1:19 is very pretty. 😊

[@perdizes1954]

When I see these photos, I'm start to imagine my great-great-grandparents or my great-great-grandfathers.

[@jerrytheracecardriver1100]

my great great grandparents were born in the 1890's so this would probably be the age of their great grand parents.

[@matildabond..2390]

In a blink of an eye,we will be there,in the future.

[@juanjulioromancampos9814]

Fascinante ver estas fotografías,de saber que algunas mujeres deben haber nacido en los años 1700's.

[@rodrigo33656]

Realmente!! Así lo pienso también.

[@MsRen-gk1yn]

fascinating.

[@r.crompton2286]

Most of Brady's photos shown here didn't preserve that well.

[@alangknowles]

Perhaps they were the rejects left in the studio. We still want the perfect shot with selfies.

[@mariacelina7299]

Lindas mulheres todas natural .😍

[@S070-g8q]

A few of them were quite pretty. One was creepy.

[@ronofthesea5953]

4:29 - Brady: "Turn of your damnable projector Tillinghast! before you frighten away another unidentified woman"!

[@rodrigo33656]

A primera mulher era linda!!!

[@alexandrafreitas1569]

Verdade bonita ela

[@alangknowles]

@@alexandrafreitas1569 As outras, nem tantas.

[@alexandrafreitas1569]

@@alangknowles , muitas desse vídeo é fotografia pós morte é só reparar nas mãos escuras e endurecidas a primeira mulher da foto é uma

[@mariacelina7299]

Todas são bonitas

[@DeeAnderson-oj2hr]

Natural beauties. They didn't need the makeup to look lovely. It's a shame we overuse makeup as a standard of beauty today

[@richarddowney1972]

some quite lovely women. But did all women between the age of 7 and 70 have their hair parted in the middle falling straignt down or in ringlets?

[@oscargrouch7962]

0:37 looks like a young Mary Todd Lincoln.

[@mirteflanagan9320]

I like the first woman.

[@davestelling]

What treasures; that these exist!

[@rodrigo33656]

Chubachus, por que você não põe música ao fundo?

[@victormarie525]

1.20 quelle beauté !

[@taneekasmith5782]

This is what I like

[@peteacher52]

I wonder what frames and braces, out of sight, were used to keep the subject motionless during the long exposures of the day. I wonder what they smelt like with the monthly bath 'whether we need it or not' and before modern-era dentistry happened with its anesthetics! (From a school English text for 12 -13 year old children ca 1940s - rewrite the following sentence correcting the colloquial vernacular; The poor little josser came out of the dentist's looking like nothing on earth.)

[@irisheyesofbelfast]

They used a 25-30lb stand to help the subject hold a pose for the minute required. Very similar to a microphone stand.

[@carowells1607]

The first pic proves that Anna Paquin is really, really, really old.

[@robvegart]

The unseen every day American.......

[@rodrigo33656]

A primeira mulher é linda!!!!!

[@GeorgeLennon100]

A lot of these ladies had freckles back then. Probably because they worked outside in the sunshine for many years.

[@joeymama4666]

GeorgeLennon100 Freckles mean you worked outside, and working outside meant you were poor/like power class, so women in those days tried very hard to avoid the sun. The whiter the skin, the more desirable and attractive a woman was.

[@oscargrouch7962]

@@joeymama4666 Thus the popularity of parasols then.

[@TheStockwell]

That's what you'd think, but no. The photographic processes in those years was sensitive to ultraviolet light. As a result, freckles, blemishes, and other features invisible in normal light were made visible. Do a search for "faces under UV light" - and brace yourself.

[@nancyvanbrundt8636]

Several have a ring on their right index finger. Was that a fashion or a sign of being single?

[@oscargrouch7962]

Not certain but sometimes the photograph was an mirror image. There is a famous photograph of Bill The Kid holding an 1873 Winchester rifle with the loading gate on the wrong side indicating it was a mirror image.

[@mudgebauer]

I think it would be nice if you cleaned up all these photos, removed the scratches and colorized them like other guys do with similar videos here.

[@kmeccat]

Mostly very beautiful women, esp considering they wore no makeup! A couple...eh, looked more like men. Not so good.

[@777johnp]

Ha, everyone is saying the 1st lady is attractive. The other thirty or so, not so much. :)

[@YourInvestmentAdvise]

Agreed. Not bad for no makeup!

[@thegardensound1123]

They all look sad or scared.

[@danwallach8826]

Women -- making men's lives miserable since 50 million BCE.

[@waivedwench]

Women's faults are many. Men have only two. Everything they say And everything they do.

[@killer_queen4062]

incel spotted

[@danwallach8826]

@@killer_queen4062 And there you have it, folks. From someone self-described as killer queen. My work here is done.

[@killer_queen4062]

@@danwallach8826 it is a jojo reference you uncultured swine 💀

[@danwallach8826]

@@killer_queen4062 And, still makes no sense. And thanks for the gratuitous insult that serves only to further prove my point.

[@rodrigo33656]

Chubachus, por que você não põe música ao fundo?