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A Masquerade Sprite
If an ordinary dance or ball is enjoyable how much more so is a masquerade—that merry carnival in which identities are mysteriously hidden and all manner of pleasant pranks indulged in by the maskers, whose brilliant and variegated costumes transform the aspect of the thronging floor into a kaleidoscopic expanse of ever-changing beauty. The accompanying illustration depicts the sort of jolly scene to be encountered at a typical Chicago masquerade—a scene which, witnessed for the first time, is rarely forgotten until it is eclipsed perhaps, by another later and even more novel.
A Petit Souper
Man and woman eating in restaurant
Group From the Woman’s Building
Group From the Woman’s Building
Looking at the Race
THE national love of horse-racing, which is growing in intensity year by year, finds nowhere a better ground for development than in Chicago. There are in active operation in this city during the months of summer and autumn three admirably equipped race tracks, where the fleetest horses in the world are entered in daily contests for fat purses.
On the Caroussel
The carousel is a form of entertainment which has grown popular with a certain class of people within recent years. The term may be a little obscure to the uninitiated, but they will readily understand its meaning when it is explained that the carrousel is nothing more or less than the old-fashioned “merry-go-round” which we all easily remember as a feature of fairs, circuses and other out-door entertainments.
On the Water
On the water
The Fair Shopper
A party of visitors in which there are one or more ladies will unquestionably go on a shopping excursion of greater or less extent, according to the tastes of the fair ones and the length of the purses possessed by their escorts.
The Pretty Manicure
The Pretty Manicure “Manicuring,” by which term is signified the treatment of the hands, is an industry that is only mentioned in this chapter by reason of its bearing on the care of the person or the toilet. The manicuring establishments are in every way respectable. For the sum of one dollar a pleasant-faced young woman washes one’s hands in a preparation of her own manufacture and so trims, polishes and fixes up one’s fingernails that the average customer does not recognize them as his own after she has finished the delicate task. Aside from the neatness imparted by the operation few men object to the sensation produced by having a pretty woman manipulate scientifically and dally with his clumsy hands for half an hour or more.
The Pretty Wheelwoman
The Pretty Wheelwoman
An Egyptian Peasant Woman
Lady keeling and praying
Lady keeling and praying
Woman of the Southern Province of Upper Egypt
Fellah Women
Fellah Women The dress of a large proportion of those women of the lower orders who are not of the poorest class consists of a pair of trousers or drawers (similar in form to the shintiyán of the ladies, but generally of plain white cotton or linen), a blue linen or cotton shirt (not quite so full as that of the men), a burko’ of a kind of coarse black crape, and a dark blue tarhah of muslin or linen. Some wear over the shirt, or instead of the latter, a linen tób, of the same form as that of the ladies. The sleeves of this are often turned up over the head; either to prevent their being incommodious, or to supply the place of a tarhah.
The Delights of the Malmaison
The Delights of the Malmaison A saunter through the park in 1804
The Picture Exhibition at the 'Salon'
The Picture Exhibition at the 'Salon'
The Tuleries in 1802
The Tuleries in 1802
The Wooden Gallery in the Palais-Royal
The Wooden Gallery in the Palais-Royal 1803
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View of the two panoramas and of the passage between them 1810
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An official ball in the Strassbourg Theatre
American Queen
Another picture that rises simultaneously before the eyes of the masses as representing those queens in America, to whom more ready homage is paid than was ever accorded to a coronet or crown, is our Frances Cleveland. Ours, because the “Common People” claim her, as only an ordinary, sweet, lovely, modest American woman.
Walking Dress
Walking Dress
Woollen Check - 1920's
Woollen Check - 1920's
Young Lady - 1920s
Young Lady - 1920s
Young lady - 1920's
Young Lady - 1920s
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashionable lady 1920's
Fashionable lady 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's