Despite the happy events they were presumably intended to celebrate, nuptial cabinet cards of the 19th century were like any other studio portrait of the time: still, stiff, and largely somber.

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19th-century mustachioed man standing next to a trunk containing "intimate wigs" has intrigued corners of the internet interested in historical oddities and macabre modernism. Though intimate wigs ...

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during the 19th century was just one of the radical changes that would bring the imperial era to an end (China became a republic in 1912 following a four-month revolution). As such, photos from ...