Edwardian
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Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter, by Alvin Landon Coburn 1905
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Arthur Conan Doyle, 1913 -very much the picture of the Edwardian gent with straw boater and tie. Oh and that moustache.
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Is it me or do they always seem to get the top hats slightly wrong in these period things? Just looks wrong compared to pictures or paintings from this era (regency) and equally true of modern depictions of Victorian/Edwardian too.
It’s like those goth/dressage versions of the top hat, or people wearing stovepipes to be ‘authentically Victorian’ which were never that popular but for a very short time…or people who wear mourning felt hats to weddings (although that in part is because the story goes French brothers in Lyon who made the last of the silk plush fell out imany years ago and dramatically smashed the silk looms – hence no new silk toppers* -so rather expensive and hard to find a proper silk one)
Sorry, top hat rant over.
* although since writing this I found one place which is now doing new silk plush hats…so someone must be doing silk plush again…
Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice.
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Experimental Colour Film (ca. 1903)
So the edwardian times were all black and white right? Wrong! And to my mind this aces the cheating hand coloured Lumiere 1899 film, anyday.
Experimental Colour Film (ca. 1903)
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Mitchell and Kenyon
Like a window to the past…as the comments go, if I had a time machine a la Doctor Who I’d be so there…I’ve seen similar of a London tram ride, and of course there was the man who filmed that bridge in Leeds, and the first ever film, then disappeared, changing the history of Cinema forever…I might post those if I find ‘em.
this is really an awesome find, major kudos to the OP. it’s stunning to see so many fine edwardian gents and ladies and children all crushed together in the bustling of day to day life, with their tight faces and their stiff collars. ah, to have lived in this swirling sea of hats and mustaches…
Edwardian Era (1900s) posted by ThePsybaRat
Footage shot in England and Ireland between 1901-1906. Filmed by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company.
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What iceberg?
Captain Edward John Smith, of a little known ship called the Titanic.
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My intention here is to blog Victorian and Edwardian portraits, usually of those with beards. This qualifies…sort of. 😉