Eothen #Quebec #Canada 17.9.1872. "The navigation from Quebec to Montreal is most intricate. Though the river is apparently of great width - ...varying from a mile and a half to two miles - there are mud banks, shoals, and innumerable rocks...The Northern Lights were magnificent..." #Brassey #1870s

Sunbeam #Carcarana #Argentina 16.9.1876. "They got into one's hair and clothes, and gave one the creeps all over. I am sure I shall often dream of them for some time to come, and I...never wish to see another #locust as long as I live. I have, however secured some fine specimens..." #Brassey #1870s

Eothen #Quebec #Canada 14.9.1872. "After lunch I took some photographic groups, but, melancholic to relate, owing to my haste, and anxiety not to keep the sitters waiting, I took two on the same plate; and, alas! two of the best groups were in consequence quite spoiled." #Brassey #Photography #1870s

Graben
🌍 Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
📆 1870s
📷 Wilhelm J. Burger

#cronobook #Austria #1870s #vintage

Sunbeam #Montevideo #Uruguay 11.9.1876. "They are very fantastic in their ideas of architectural style, and appear to bestow their patronage impartially, not to say indiscriminately, upon Gothic cathedrals, Alhambra palaces, Swiss cottages, Italian villas, and Turkish mosques." #Brassey #1870s

Eothen #Quebec #Canada 11.9.1872. "This was what in England we should term a wet day, but here, as in Scotland, they only call it "a little soft;" so about 11 o'clock we started on our expedition to the Indian village of Lorette.
..We went to the house of the chief of the tribe..." #Brassey #1870s

Eothen #Quebec #Canada 10.9.1872. "The hotel is managed on the same principle as most in America. The tariff is 14 shillings a day..There are between 4 & 5 hundred people in the house & we have the one private sitting-room...people sit about the passages in the most promiscuous way." #Brassey #1870s

Eothen #Quebec #Canada 8.9.1872. "...Captain Watts sent up three rockets...this was answered directly by one from the yacht, which was instantaneously illuminated from stem to stern with blue lights, showing the well-known proportions of the Eothen, looking like a fairy vessel..." #Brassey #1870s

Blues all the rage in the mid #1870s, different shades & fabric side by side. Its popularity was apparent from new dye technologies, Prussian blue a particular trend. Here, a promenade dress alongside Renoir’s vibrant La Parisienne for all the shades #amhistorymuseum #museumwales #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Sunbeam #RiodeJaneiro #Brazil 5.9.1876. "It was really worth the trouble of getting up & climbing quite into the bows of the vessel to watch them, as they gambolled & frisked about, brightly illumined by the phosphorescence of the water, now swimming together steadily..." #Brassey #History #1870s