Twin sisters

Continuing the 'double' theme from yesterday's post. This pair of sisters were photographed in Merano (Italy, formerly Austria) in royal icing dresses. Sometimes I find twins where I didn't expect them, such as this group of old ladies in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. It's maybe my own family history which makes me search for twin sisters. The defiant stare of these two leap out of our archive. I'm told they were a fabulous pair of old ladies too.

Woman and children. Leven, Scotland.

Here we see the inverse of the photographs in my previous post. A mother surrounded by her children, but with no father in evidence. Perhaps he was dead, or just at work.

Ha! Smiling Victorians.

19th century Britain was a very serious place. Nobody smiled in photographs, ever. Well, almost nobody.

London.

Thetford, Norfolk

School children. 1860s

Unidentified school. Probably 1860s judging by the teachers' dresses. This one was very popular when I first put it on Flickr. I'm constantly amazed that old school photos sell for so little. They are far more interesting than soldiers or dogs.