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VICTORIAN ERA |
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Victorian |
needlework, collecting, nature, traveling, |
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art, the unusual and bizarre. |
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Majolica, Beleek, Parian ware china. |
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Maps, botanicals, photography. |
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Lithography, wood & steel engravings. |
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Commemoratives |
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Ancestry & family ties. |
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Collecting nature: nests, sea shells, pressed flowers,
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velvet in fashion and decorating |
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1819 |
Victoria, future queen, born |
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1820-30's |
first Victorian pressed glass |
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1837-1901 |
Victoria's reign |
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1838 |
transfer printed pottery became popular |
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1839 |
photography invented |
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1840 |
Victoria married her cousin Albert of Saxe-Cobourg & Gotha |
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Princess Victoria born |
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1841 |
Prince of Wales (Edward VII) born |
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1847 |
Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale (1820-1887) toured
Britain |
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Beginning of the Morman's westward movement (70,000
people) |
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1849 |
Gold Rush |
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Westward Emigration |
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1850's |
matching suites of furniture |
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carpet |
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porcelains |
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Rococo floral dishes |
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asymmetry, clustering, eclectic decor |
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1851 |
The Great Exhibition in England; the Crystal Palace |
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1853 |
Crystal Palace Exposition, NY |
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Majolica introduced |
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1854 |
Crimean War; England & France against Russia |
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1850-60's |
paisley shawls popular |
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1858 |
Princess Victoria wed Fredrick III of Prussia |
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1860 |
tintypes replaced daguerreotypes in popularity |
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1861 |
death of Prince Albert |
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mourning jewelry popularized by Queen Victorian &
Civil War |
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1850-70 |
balloon-backed chairs popular |
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men's facial hair a sign of masculinity, thus stylish |
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1861- |
Civil War |
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1862 |
Victoria's Silver Jubilee |
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1863 |
Albert, Prince of Wales married Princess Alexandra of
Denmark |
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1867 |
stereoscope invented |
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1870's |
blue & white china |
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Japanseque craze |
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ebonized furniture |
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1870-80's |
autograph books popular |
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Renaissance Revival furniture |
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cult of rustic adornment |
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1876 |
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition |
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Japanese & Turkish items |
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national pride in American Victorian |
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Colonial Revival |
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1877 |
Victoria became Empress of India |
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Indian Mutiny |
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1879 |
Zulu War |
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1880 |
Railroad Time standardized |
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1880's |
home library a status symbol |
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1887 |
Victoria's Golden Jubilee |
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progression to colored transferware rather than black
& white |
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1888 |
Silver Wedding Anniversary of Prince & Princess of
Wales |
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1890's |
souvenir teaspoons |
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"Turkish corners" a new decorating theme |
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china painting popular |
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trophies & presentation silver |
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first moving pictures |
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round oak pedestal tables, pressed back chairs, oak
washstands |
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great land rushes in the US |
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NM & AZ still referred to as "the wild west" |
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Victorian vaseline (uranium) glass popular |
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1891 |
McKinley Tariff Act: china must be marked w/name of
country of orgin |
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1892 |
Favrile iridescent glassware introduced by L.C. Tiffany |
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1897 |
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee |
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Fred Harvey opened Harvey Houses |
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1893 |
World's Columbia Exposition, Chicago |
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1899-1902 |
Boer War; Africa |
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1880's-1915 |
American brilliant cut glass |
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1871-1914
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Belle Epoch in Europe- lyrical romantic era, neo-classic influence of
Pompeii
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1901 |
death of Queen Victoria |
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1902 |
Prince of Wales Coronation |
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1910 |
Prince of Wales death |
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