Old colored photographs about the life of the Japanese in the second half of the 19th century (30 photos)

Historical photographs that vividly tell about the life and life of ordinary Russian people in the 19th century

Old photographs are a real time machine that can take you 100 years or even more back. It is thanks to old photographs that you understand what life was like for people in the distant past. And if you carefully consider the details, then such photographs can tell no less than history textbooks

Hereditary Japanese samurai in photographs of the 19th century (15 photos)

Samurai were originally called aristocratic warriors (bushi), and from the 12th century this term began to be used as a name for all representatives of the military-feudal class of small nobles. The ideal samurai was supposed to be a stoic warrior who followed an unwritten code of conduct, be brave, and, if necessary, commit ritual suicide. Samurai lived in Japan in the 19th century and their photographs are admirable

25 colored photographs of the 19th century from the Land of the Rising Sun: geisha, samurai and the most ordinary Japanese

British artist Felix Beato arrived in Japan in 1863 and spent over 20 years in that country. He became a pioneer in coloring photographs, and his work is valuable and unique due to the rarity of photographs of Japan during the Edo period - the time of the establishment of the Tokugawa dictatorship and, at the same time, the "golden age" of Japanese literature. The result of his work was 2 volumes of photographs "National Types", which included 100 genre and portrait works, 98 city panoramas and landscapes. In our review there are 25 photos and

Ladies' underwear of the second half of the 19th century: "immoral" cambric pantaloons

In the 19th century, pantaloons were in the wardrobe of every self-respecting lady. With their help, the representatives of the fair sex hid legs and intimate parts of the body under lush dresses. However, with the latter not very much (for certain reasons) and hid. In our review, the history and photos of elegant pantaloons from the past

The very first photographs in the world: 15 unique photographs of the 19th century from the British gallery Tate

An exhibition dedicated to the origins of photography has opened at the Tate Britain in London. In this exhibition, you can see the earliest photographs taken between 1840 and 1860. This review contains the very first photographs that capture the amazing atmosphere of that time and the people who lived at that time