Ike Rosen · @IkeRosen
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“The wind was blowing drearily. The lamps looked pale, and shook as if they were cold. There was a distant glimmer of something that was not quite darkness, rather than of light, in the sky; and foreboding night was shivering and restless, as the dying are who make a troubled end.”

“Dombey and son” Charles Dickens - 1846

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Ike Rosen · @IkeRosen
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“A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen. The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours. There were a good many small shops; but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were crawling in and out at the doors, or screaming from the inside. The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main. Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.”

“Oliver Twist” Charles Dickens - 1837

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Elizabeth C. Bunce · @ecbunce
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portrait of the week! It was very common for girls to have their photographs taken posed with their precious dolls--but according to the writing on the back of this this may actually be a small boy called David!

#victorian #1890s #dolls #Histodon #victorianlife #dollphoto #victoriankids #cdv #victoriandoll

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Elizabeth C. Bunce · @ecbunce
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Happy ! Here's a wacky not-quite- featuring the ever-popular fleeing turkeys, escaping in their corn automobile!

#victorianholidays #victorianlife #vintagecards #1890s #GreetingCard #victorian #thanksgiving

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Elizabeth C. Bunce · @ecbunce
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Elizabeth C. Bunce · @ecbunce
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