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Where can I find pictures of victorian window dressing?

I looked on the internet and the library,can’t find pics of this vintage style of drapes and curtains and how a set of 4 windows over 6 feet tall are dressed.The parlor has two windows next to each other in the center, and one on each side.I have all the other rooms to do also.
Thanks everyone!I have an idea now from all these sites.

Try various Internet searches

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it checks google, yahoo,msn and others..

Also try http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.lycos.com/
http://www.ask.com/
http://www.hotbot.com/?prov=lygo&tab=web

Different search engines will give different results for same key words.

try key word search variants

“Victorian curtains” Had good results

“Victorian window dressing” Did not come up with very effective results

Key word variants looking for images had no result.

Finally, look at more than the first page of results. Priority is for comercial benifit and information sites tend to fall on later pages.

Victorian Sapphire Blue Photo Frame Bejeweled 3.5x5 Picture-Vintage Home Décor $14.90 This beautiful Victorian style photo frame is made of pewter and adorned with crystals.  Antique silver trim. Holds a 3.5"x5" photo....

Victorian Picture Hanger $19.99 Many fine Victorian homes have a strip of wood running around the upperwalls about a foot down from the ceiling. These Victorian style picture rail hooks allow you to safely hang pictures from the molding without causing nail hole damage to your walls. Includes medallion, hook, tassel and cord that allows you to hang up to 60 lbs. A beautiful way to group your family portraits!...

Victorian Picture Moulding Hook - Brass $3.55 Stamped Brass VICTORIAN PICTURE MOULDING HOOK with Embossed Design Overall: 1-3/4"high x 13/16"wide Hooks onto 5/8" rounded edge of the decorative room molding placed near the ceiling in many Victorian homes. Great for the display of picutres and other wall hanging. Sold individually....

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Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age $37.95 Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age

The Victorian World Picture $28.98 The Victorian World Picture by David Newsome New Ed Published in 1998 by Fontana Press

The Victorian World Picture $8.48 The Victorian World Picture : Perceptions and Introspections in an Age of Change by David Newsome Published in 1998 by Rutgers University Press

The Victorian World Picture $59 David Newsome's monumental history, The Victorian World Picture, takes a good, long look at the Victorian age and what distinguishes it so prominently in the history of both England and the world. The Victorian World Picture presents a vivid canvas of the Victorians as they saw themselves and as the rest of the world saw them. Situated between the watershed of the French Revolution in 1789 and the fin-de-siecle, the Victorians' world was one of rapid change. Whether they greeted it with hope and exhilaration or with mounting apprehension, there was general acknowledgment among contemporary thinkers and commentators that they were destined to live in uncommonly stirring times. The Victorian intellectual world in full bloom counted among its luminaries Dickens, Carlyle, Eliot, Arnold, Ruskin, Southey, and Wordsworth. But it was also a time of unprecedented population growth, massive industrialization, and an acceleration in the pace of life due in part to improved transportation, especially the advent of the railway. Darwinian theory shook people's religious beliefs and foreign competition threatened industry and agriculture. The defeat of Napoleon in 1815 and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy had created profound unease and political tension that lasted into Queen Victoria's reign. Even the books that the Victorians read and their interpretations of history reveal a conflict between unbounded belief in progress and a nostalgic yearning for the values of the past. The transformation of the world of the Victorians was social, cultural, intellectual, economic and political - in a sense, earth-shaking. David Newsome weaves all these strands of Victorian life into a compelling evocation of the spirit of a fascinating time that laid the foundation for the modern age.

Victorian Dollhouse Sticker Picture (Sticker Picture Books) $7.48 Youngsters can enjoy hours of fun by filling the empty rooms of this charming, old-fashioned dollhouse with authentic period furnishings that include velvet draperies, a sofa, dressers, beds, dining set, kerosene lamps, pictures, baby carriage, a proper Victorian family, and more. 75 reusable stickers for placing on a laminated backdrop.

Victorian Shell Picture $346 Sailors in ages past would use shells from far-flung seashores to create intricate designs to send home to their beloved. Antique Sailor Valentines are sought-after collectibles. Our artists compose and expertly frame each image by hand. Incredible detail and variation between shells.

Victorian Shell Picture $346 Sailors in ages past would use shells from far-flung seashores to create intricate designs to send home to their beloved. Antique Sailor Valentines are sought-after collectibles. Our artists compose and expertly frame each image by hand. Incredible detail and variation between shells.

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The Victorian Age $42.48 Unique insights into the mysterious web of Victorian intellectual debate abound in this anthology of primary source materials from the era. The Victorian Age includes writings by such "eminent Victorians" as John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Morris. This definitive anthology also contains a lucid introduction explaining the relationship between literary and intellectual culture and how it can be analyzed, essays giving invaluable background to the areas of debate and brief accounts of the reputations and careers of the authors. Invaluable to the scholar and the general reader, this book will paint a vivid picture of the Victorian Age.

Victorian Fiction $37.6 Richly informative on the Victorian literary and cultural scene, this new reissue of John Sutherland's important 1995 study is essential reading for all those interested in the evolution of the Victorian novel, and includes a new Preface situating the book in current research being carried out on the history of the book and print culture. Drawing on extensive research, Sutherland draws a fascinating picture of the cultural, social and commercial factors influencing the content and production of Victorian fiction, discussing major writers such as Collins, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray and Trollope alongside writers also very popular with the reading public--Reade, Lytton and Mrs. Humphry Ward--but whose fame has not endured.

Victorian Childhood $8.06 The lives of children during the Victorian era differed dramatically between the rich and the poor. The children of the wealthy lived in comfort with good education, while the poorest children grew up with little food or care, no education, and were often exploited for work. Janet Sacks explores the world of Victorian children, and how their experiences changed as laws were introduced to stop child employment, and education became compulsory, how holidays became possible by train, and the introduction of mass-produced toys. Using archive photographs and illustrations, she paints a picture of what it was like to grow up in Victorian Britain, and how changing attitudes towards children led to a very different upbringing by the end of the period.

Victorian West $9.98 Picture a Kansas cattletown. What do you see? Most people see a "Gunsmoke" version of Dodge City--a dusty frontier town full of thirsty cowboys, gunslingers, outlaws, and ladies of the evening. But the "Gunsmoke" version tells only half the story, according to historian C. Robert Haywood. Two cultures existed simultaneously in Kansas cattle towns, Haywood writes. Alongside the Wild West culture of the cattle trailing industry there existed a highly developed Victorian society, complete with civic activists, churches, boosterism, small-town politics, and Victorian architecture to rival that of the east coast. In Victorian West Haywood examines education, recreation, social stratification, philanthropy and common community goals in three Kansas cowtowns--Dodge City, Wichita, and Caldwell. He finds that the Victorian attitudes of the post-Civil War era prevailed in Kansas as well as the rest of the nation. Since the Wild West aspect of cattletown life has been so heavily stressed in both academic and popular arenas, the development of Kansas towns as progressive, even elegant Victorian cities, has been overlooked. But, according to Haywood, life in Kansas cattletowns was clearly tied to dominant Victorian themes: society was stratified, Victorian fads were emulated, "fancies" were coveted, and Victorian manners and morals were part of the process of refinement. In Victorian West Haywood relates Victorian themes like optimism, anxiety, anti-intellectualism, and the commercial spirit to the Kansas community experience. He also provides a synthesis of cultural information that places the cowtowns of Kansas in a broader cultural context.

Daily Life in a Victorian House (Picture Puffin Books) $3.98 A child's "Upstairs, Downstairs," this thrilling journey back in time uses a special visual approach, with 100 full-color and 35 black-and-white photographs of authentic objects from the past, to bring the period to life. Discover how a wealthy Victorian family and their servants really lived--how they dressed, what they ate and the manner in which they entertained.

Victorian Butterfly & Flowers Picture Framed Art Print $34.95 This beautiful framed art goes well in any room. Artwork and frame are manufactured in the United States by Art Prints Inc. using quality materials such as premium grade A solid hardwood, tempered picture frame glass, and high quality acid free lithograph art paper.

Victorian Tulip And Sunflowers Picture Framed Art Print $34.95 This beautiful framed art goes well in any room. Artwork and frame are manufactured in the United States by Art Prints Inc. using quality materials such as premium grade A solid hardwood, tempered picture frame glass, and high quality acid free lithograph art paper.

Victorian Childhoods $63 The experiences of children growing up in Britain during Victorian times are often misunderstood to be either idyllic or wretched. Yet, the reality was more wide-ranging than most imagine. Here, in colorful detail and with firsthand accounts, Frost paints a complete picture of Victorian childhood that illustrates both the difficulties and pleasures of growing up during this period. Differences of class, gender, region, and time varied the lives of children tremendously. Boys had more freedom than girls, while poor children had less schooling and longer working lives than their better-off peers. Yet some experiences were common to almost all children, including parental oversight, physical development, and age-based transitions. This compelling work concentrates on marking out the strands of life that both separated and united children throughout the Victorian period. Most historians of Victorian children have concentrated on one class or gender or region, or have centered on arguments about how much better off children were by 1900 than 1830. Though this work touches on these themes, it covers all children and focuses on the experience of childhood rather than arguments about it. Many people hold myths about Victorian families. The happy myth is that childhood was simpler and happier in the past, and that families took care of each other and supported each other far more than in contemporary times. In contrast, the unhappy myth insists that childhood in the past was brutal—full of indifferent parents, high child mortality, and severe discipline at home and school. Both myths had elements of truth, but the reality was both more complex and more interesting. Here, the author uses memoirs and other writings of Victorian children themselves to challenge and refine those myths.

The Victorian Farmer $7.79 The Victorian farmer occupied a pivotal role in rural society, paying rents to the landowner and providing employment for the labourer. This book explores the world of the farmer during Queen Victoria''s reign, which was a period of considerable change on the farm as the forces of industrialisation made themselves felt. Using contemporary observations, illustrations and museum collections, David J. Eveleigh looks at the working farmer and everyday life in the farmhouse - the furnishings and household tasks. The picture which emerges is more complex and more fascinating than the romantic images which so often shape our views of farming life.

Victorian Prism $49.98 From the moment it opened on the first of May in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was one of the defining events of the Victorian period. It stood not only as a visible symbol of British industrial and technological progress but as a figure for modernity--a figure that has often been thought to convey one coherent message and vision of culture and society. This volume examines the place occupied both materially and discursively by the Crystal Palace and other nineteenth- and twentieth-century exhibitions in the struggle to understand what it means to be modern. Initiated in part by a number of conferences held in 2001 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Crystal Palace, Victorian Prism provides new perspectives to historians, literary critics, art historians, and others interested in how a large glass building in a London park could refract meaning from Caracas to Calcutta. In its investigations of the ways of knowing and shaping the world that emerged during the planning and execution of this first "world's fair," Victorian Prism not only restores the multiplicity of experiences and other determining factors to our picture of the Great Exhibition; it makes reevaluation of the exhibition and its legacies the occasion for reevaluating modernity itself in its broadest sense--as the cultures, potentialities, and liabilities of the Enlightenment. With essays by a number of leading scholars in their fields, the collection as a whole focuses on how these exhibitions, in attempting to define the cultures of their day, incorporated a range of conflicting ideologies and agendas. In doing so, it offers a richer, more complex understanding of the experience of modernity than we have previously acknowledged. The volume also addresses the ways in which the cultural processes and tendencies brought together in these exhibitions have been refracted down to the present, thus informing and complicating our own relationship to both modernity and postmodernity.

Victorian Prism $45 From the moment it opened on the first of May in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was one of the defining events of the Victorian period. It stood not only as a visible symbol of British industrial and technological progress but as a figure for modernity--a figure that has often been thought to convey one coherent message and vision of culture and society. This volume examines the place occupied both materially and discursively by the Crystal Palace and other nineteenth- and twentieth-century exhibitions in the struggle to understand what it means to be modern. Initiated in part by a number of conference held in 2001 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Crystal Palace, Victorian Prism provides new perspectives to historians, literary critics, art historians, and others interested in how a large glass building in a London park could refract meaning from Caracas to Calcutta. In its investigations of the ways of knowing and shaping the world that emerged during the planning and execution of this first world's fair, Victorian Prism not only restores the multiplicity of experiences and other determining factors to our picture of the Great Exhibition; it makes reevaluation of the exhibition and its legacies the occasion for reevaluating modernity itself in its broadest sense--as the cultures, potentialities, and liabilities of the Enlightenment. With essays by a number of leading scholars in their fields, the collection as a whole focuses on how these exhibitions, in attempting to define the cultures of their day, incorporated a range of conflicting ideologies and agendas. In doing so, it offers a richer, more complex understanding of theexperience of modernity than we have previously acknowledged. The volume also addresses the ways in which the cultural processes and tendencies brought together in these exhibitions have been refracted down to the present, thus informing and complicating our own relationship to both modernity and post-modernity.

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Victorian Dollhouse Wallpapers $7.98 Irresistible collection features 6 colorful patterns, all based on classic Victorian wallpaper designs. 4 sheets of each pattern (about 350 square inches) will more than cover an average dollhouse room. Ideal for other craft projects, too — book covers, picture frames, lampshades, decoupage, more.

Victorian Childhood (Paperback) $10.9 The lives of children during the Victorian era differed dramatically between the rich and the poor. The children of the wealthy lived in comfort with good education, while the poorest children grew up with little food or care, no education, and were often exploited for work. Janet Sacks explores the world of Victorian children, and how their experiences changed as laws were introduced to stop child employment, and education became compulsory, how holidays became possible by train, and the introduction of mass-produced toys. Using archive photographs and illustrations, she paints a picture of what it was like to grow up in Victorian Britain, and how changing attitudes towards children led to a very different upbringing by the end of the period.

Victorian Childhood (Paperback) $9.61 The lives of children during the Victorian era differed dramatically between the rich and the poor. The children of the wealthy lived in comfort with good education, while the poorest children grew up with little food or care, no education, and were often exploited for work. Janet Sacks explores the world of Victorian children, and how their experiences changed as laws were introduced to stop child employment, and education became compulsory, how holidays became possible by train, and the introduction of mass-produced toys. Using archive photographs and illustrations, she paints a picture of what it was like to grow up in Victorian Britain, and how changing attitudes towards children led to a very different upbringing by the end of the period.

Victorian Childhood (Paperback) $13.63 The lives of children during the Victorian era differed dramatically between the rich and the poor. The children of the wealthy lived in comfort with good education, while the poorest children grew up with little food or care, no education, and were often exploited for work. Janet Sacks explores the world of Victorian children, and how their experiences changed as laws were introduced to stop child employment, and education became compulsory, how holidays became possible by train, and the introduction of mass-produced toys. Using archive photographs and illustrations, she paints a picture of what it was like to grow up in Victorian Britain, and how changing attitudes towards children led to a very different upbringing by the end of the period.

Victorian Childhood (Paperback) $11.48 The lives of children during the Victorian era differed dramatically between the rich and the poor. The children of the wealthy lived in comfort with good education, while the poorest children grew up with little food or care, no education, and were often exploited for work. Janet Sacks explores the world of Victorian children, and how their experiences changed as laws were introduced to stop child employment, and education became compulsory, how holidays became possible by train, and the introduction of mass-produced toys. Using archive photographs and illustrations, she paints a picture of what it was like to grow up in Victorian Britain, and how changing attitudes towards children led to a very different upbringing by the end of the period.