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Pattern Draughting and Garment Cutting

"Pattern Draughting and Garment Cutting" from the 1882 edition of Gately's Universal Educator

Tags: 1880s, 1882, children, cutting, diagrams, drafting, draughting, dress, fashion, garments, Godey's, Harpers, men, pattern, patterns, Peterson's, sewing, system, victorian, women

Visual instruction for creating an 1870 hairstyle. Please note: this image has been digitally enhanced to make it easier to print.

Tags: dressing, hair, hairdo, hairdressing, hairstyles, instruction, victorian

Short Story from an 1864 issue of Peterson's Magazine.

Title: The Choir of Our Village
Author: Ella Rodman

Includes two poems on the last page

Tags: civil war, Ella, fiction, Godey's, Peterson's, Rodman, short, story, victorian

Sheet Music by M. Hobson printed in the August 1870 Peterson's Magazine.

Tags: Godey's, music, Peterson's, sheet, song, victorian

Pattern diagram, instructions and illustration for a Home Wrapper designed by Emily H. May from the 1865 Peterson's Magazine

Tags: clothing, diagram, fashion, Godey's, pattern, patterns, Peterson's, victorian, wrapper

Color diagram for lady's embroidered slipper.

Tags: accessories, black, civil war, embroidery, gold, lady's, shoes, silk, slippers, victorian

Image, instructions and pattern diagram for a fashionable mantle of 1857.

Tags: 1857, accessory, diagram, fashion, Godey's, mantle, outerwear, pattern, shawl, victorian

Head and Shoulders portrait of a young woman, circa 1874. No photographers marks.

Tags: 1870s, albumen, fashion, hair, jewelry, photograph, victorian

Portrait of unidentified gentleman, circa 1865, taken in Triest.

Tags: 1860s, 1865, cravat, facialhairfriday, fashion, gentleman, men, portrait, victorian

Albumen print of young girl, unidentified, circa 1865.

Tags: albumen, children, civil war, fashion, gown, hair, image, photo, print, shoe, victorian, women