Victorian + Edwardian Eras

Weighing in at 530.4 carats, the Great Star of Africa, as it is referred to, was discovered in 1905 in Cullinan, a town in northeast South A...

Born in 1874 when the German Empire was still in existence, Else Hildegard Plotz suffered a difficult childhood in which she was physically ...

So, in addition to jewelry made from hair, Victorians memorialized their loved ones by having daguerrotypes made of them. According to a con...

Born in 1872, Aubrey Beardsley was an English illustrator and author who contributed to the Aesthetic and Art Nouveau movements. After compl...

The music hall known as the Folies Bergere was established in 1869 Paris and still operates today. The height of its popularity lasted from ...

I plan to do a series of brief posts on various mansions from the Gilded Age in America. This first entry is on the mansion of Payne Whitney...