Bookseller Steerforth handles a great many old books in his line of work. Often he’ll find old photos and albums amongst the piles of mildewed tomes: snapshots of lost worlds and forgotten lives.
Continuing the series in which he shares some of the more interesting discoveries, here are more of the incredible photos from the 1860s: Victorians who were so nearly lost forever (see part 1 here)…
Either the exposure time in those days wasn’t as long as I’d always assumed, or those are some well-behaved dogs.
my favourite one is the boat with the massive steam engine on it. And all the neckbeards. Surely the neckbeard is due a comeback any day now
Medical fact…..as the Salk vaccine, virtually overnight, eradicated polio, so the application of 1/250 @ F8 cured the rampant face ache amongst the legions of the photographed. The discovery of trichloroethylene was yet another ground breaking scientific advance, as was the coat hanger.