Victorian Period city life 1880-1889
Horse-drawn carriage
Charing Cross Roundabout,
London, England
Picture Postcards 1900-1909
Public Transportation Victorian Period
Lithograph postcard]]> Hansom Cab driver directing his carriage near Charing Cross Roundabout, London, England]]>
The driver, seated behind, can control the closely situated doors, and prevent passengers from leaving without paying. It was the most popular form of public transportation available during the era. ]]>
and: http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XD141009/The-Soldier?img=1&search=Robert+Sauber+%28after%29&bool=phrase

For more information on the Hansom Cab see: http://www.caaonline.com/caa_content.asp?PageType=Dept&Key=15&MCat=7

and
http://vichist.blogspot.com/2008/06/case-of-growler-and-handsome-hansom.html]]> ff7_hansom_verso.jpg]]> Street Musicians
Women Clothing and Dress in Victorian Period
Street Grinders
Street Dance
London, England
Victorian City Life
Picture postcards 1900-1909
Lithograph Postcard]]>
Ladies dancing in the street to a Barrel Organ, London, England]]>
Street performers were considered during this period disgraceful, and a representation of lower classes. The ladies dancing too, were considered to be of ill repute. Their dresses, and suggestiveness of showing their ankles visually demonstrates this. ]]>
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and: http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XD141009/The-Soldier?img=1&search=Robert+Sauber+%28after%29&bool=phrase

For more information on street grinders, and street culture see Victorian Soundscapes by John M. Picker published in 2003 by Oxford University Press.
]]> ff8_street_verso.jpg]]> ]]> London, England city life 1890-1889
Women--clothing and dress, Victorian Period
Food Vendor,
London, England,
Animal-Drawn Cart,
Lithograph postcard]]> A Coster on top of an animal-drawn vendor, London, England]]>
Costermongers belonged to the lowest classes of society, but still had their own hierarchy of sorts. Costers with animal drawn carriage like in this view were considered more well off than those that sold their goods from baskets. Additionally, costers were known for their bright and colorful clothing, heavy use of slang, and negative sentiments towards police officers. The view then of Figure 11 appears to reference negative, class based attitudes towards costermongers. ]]>
and: http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XD141009/The-Soldier?img=1&search=Robert+Sauber+%28after%29&bool=phrase

For more information on costers see: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cos2.htm]]> ff9_coster_verso.jpg]]> ]]> London, England,
Victorian Period city life,
Newspaper boy cap,
Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain
Eros,
Flower Girls,
Child Labor,
Lithograph postcard]]>
News Paper Boy at the Corner of Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, London, England.]]>
Additionally featured is the statue of Eros, completed by Albert Gilbert in 1893, this was a relatively new sight for Londoners in 1898. The statue also received a lot of controversy due its nude nature, and was the first sculpture to be cast in aluminum. Now a known symbol of London, this statue also references the emblem of Evening Standard newspaper.]]>
The statue of Eros located at the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain is still standing. ]]>
and: http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XD141009/The-Soldier?img=1&search=Robert+Sauber+%28after%29&bool=phrase

For information on the statue of Eros, see: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols31-2/pt2/pp101-110]]> ff10_news_verso.jpg]]> ]]> Robert Sauber
Victorian Period,
London, England city life 1890-1889,
English Soldier clothing and dress,
Hyde Park,
Women--clothing and dress, Victorian Period
Lithograph postcard]]>
A lady and Soldier walking around Hyde Park, London, England. ]]>
This view of Hyde Park promotes the historical significance of Hyde Park, operating as a site for middle and upper classes to see and be seen. It also promotes the soldier's chivalry, and the woman's kind nature. Additionally an afternoon stroll like such shows the growing prevalence of leisure time activities in daily life. ]]>
and: http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XD141009/The-Soldier?img=1&search=Robert+Sauber+%28after%29&bool=phrase

For information on Hyde Park see:
https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park]]> ff11_soldier_verso.jpg]]> ]]> ]]> Victorian Period,
Horse-drawn Omnibus,
Public transportation in Victorian Period,
Lithograph postcard]]>
A bus driver directing an Omnibus, London, England]]>
One account notes that:
"Here we are ... in all six and twenty sweating citizens, jammed, crammed and squeezed into each other like so many peas in a pod..."
(New Monthly Magazine, 1833)]]>
and: http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XD141009/The-Soldier?img=1&search=Robert+Sauber+%28after%29&bool=phrase

For information on the quote and history of omnibuses see: http://web.archive.org/web/20070609023652/http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/learning/online_resources/ecobus_omnibus/pg/1829.htm]]> ff12_bus_verso.jpg]]> ]]> Photographic postcards in 1908
Portraiture 1900-1910,
American Women--Clothing and Style 1908
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Photographic Postcard of Gertrude Kinnear, while in New York]]>
This picture postcard was printed in 1908, and features Gertrude Kinnear sitting on the arm of an ornate chair in early twentieth century attire that many affluent women wore including a large hat with flowers.

Inscription on verso:

1908
Gertrude Kinnear
Gran's sister (notated at an unknown time by Elizabeth Mealy)]]>
https://dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V29N03_9.pdf]]> at_gert_verso.jpg]]>