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A delightful black and white plate from La Belle Assemblee, one of the premier publications of the high Regency period: walking and full dress dated May 1806.
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c.1850's sweet sixth plate daguerreotype of a cute young girl with bottle curls.

December 1856 (written in pencil inside case) sixth plate ambrotype photo of a pretty girl .

1890's tintype photo of a little boy asleep between his two seated sisters.

1859 Godey's Lady Book

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c.1850's full plate ambrotype by Platt Babbitt taken at Niagara Falls.

1868 Julia Margaret Cameron , Memory (Maria Spartali).

Godey's Lady's Book December 1867

1902 Spring & Summer Chicago Mail Order and Millinery Co. Catalog : page after page illustrations of Edwardian era Hats of the day. This catalog was issued by the Chicago Mail Order and Millinery Company which was one of the most popular and largest mail order companies in the country and had been founded in 1889.
In 1902, about the time this was published, it was incorporated in Illinois and in 1906 the name of the business changed to Chicago Mail Order Company when they were expanding their product offerings and deemphasized the Millinery aspect of their company and name.

(  ~ silk ribbon ~ ostrich feathers ~ corded braids ~ velvets ~ lace embellishments ~ muslin flowers ~ steel ornaments ~ tuscan hair braid ~ chiffon ruffles )

c.1860's CDV by Bedford ,Wales.

1923 February EROS magazine , "Bare in a fur coat" by Leon Fontan.

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1910's Family album Boston, Massachusetts

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