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Victorian Parents Using Their Children for Pranks Collection #1
As the weekend lands, we decided to share some sinister family photographs of Victorian children which made their way into our archives many years ago. The collector who kindly donated them told us that the photographs were taken around the Black Country circa the 1880s. We have managed to clean them up, but the various…
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The Kafka Controversy
You may remember us mentioning ‘insect hatting’ in earlier posts; an unusual sport whereby gentlemen make a hat to the theme of insects. The makers then annually compete in a painstaking point scoring system to see who has the greatest hat. Today we aren’t concerned with insect hatting. Rather we want to share a somewhat…
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Psychedelic Art in Victorian England Collection #1
Many people still believe that psychedelia grew out of various counterculture movements of the 1960s. Today we hope to correct this misconception once and for all. We know that psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin and DMT have been used for thousands of years all over the world. Here in England, magic mushrooms grow in the…
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Photographs of Interesting Victorians Collection #1
These striking photographs were submitted to the project only recently and were received in almost immaculate condition. Unfortunately the collector didn’t have much additional information on the photographers, subjects or locations. Our own research suggests that photograph #1 is likely to be a portrait of Mavis Cragg. She is referenced several times in a doctor’s…
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The Author and Artist Behind The Victorian Underground Project
“My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” -Diane Arbus Welcome to the first post for The Victorian Underground Project. Today’s post is to give you some background information on myself and my new project, as well as what to expect in the future. The concept, which will begin to come together in…
Welcome to the Victorian Underground Project 