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Grecian female head-dress

Grecian Female Head-dress

Grecian female head-dress

Female head-dress from the time of Edward I

Female Head-Dress from the Time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of Edward I

Female Head-Dress from the Time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of Edward I

Female Head-Dress from the Time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of Edward IFemale Head-Dress from the Time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of Edward I

Female head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Female Head-Dress from the Time of the Plantagenets

Female head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Female head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Female Head-Dress from the Time of the Plantagenets

Female head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Female head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Female Head-Dress from the Timeof the Plantagenets

Female head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male Head-Dress from the Time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male Head-Dress from the Time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male Head-Dress from the Time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male Head-Dress from the Time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress from the time of the Plantagenets

Male head-dress, 15th century England

Male Head-Dress, 15th Century England

Male head-dress, 15th century England

Male head-dress, 15th century England

Male Head-Dress, 15th Century England

Male head-dress, 15th century England

Male head-dress, 15th century England

Male Head-Dress, 15th Century England

Male head-dress, 15th century England

Male head-dress, 15th century England

Male Head-Dress, 15th Century England

Male head-dress, 15th century England

Dress of the Egyptian king

Egyptian King

Dress of the Egyptian king

Girl walking toward left.

Girl

Girl walking toward left.

Little girl with bows on her dress and in her hair.

Girl

Little girl with bows on her dress and in her hair.

Girl's dress from back.

Girl's dress

Girl's dress from back.

Girl skipping and dog.

Girl skipping

Girl skipping and dog.

Rubber suit worn over a diver's body, doesn't include helmet.

Diving-dress

Rubber suit worn over a diver's body, doesn't include helmet.

Two young girls lost in the woods.

Lost girls

Two young girls lost in the woods.

The influx of Northern regiments of troops into Washington during the early days of the war rendered that city every hour in the day a scene of exciting and beautiful military display. The grounds north of the Capitol were used for brilliant dress parades and drills, which attrected throng of visitors from all parts of the city and Surrounding places. The various regiments had their cliques of admiring friends, who deemed the evolutoins of their favorites entirely unapproachable. All the troops however, in their drill and bearing were considered worthy of warm praise, and called loud cheers from the spectators.

Drilling Troops

The influx of Northern regiments of troops into Washington during the early days of the war rendered…

Guinevere and Enid from the story of King Arthur

Guinevere and Enid

Guinevere and Enid from the story of King Arthur

"The Masquerade of War. Ingenious method of disguising the masts and hulls of Commodore Porter's morter flotilla with boughs of trees, etc., to deceive the Confederate artillerists. In order to diminish the Confederate chances of hitting the Federal mortar boats, the masts were dressed with evergreens. Eighteen grim vessels of war were thus converted into shady bowers- a tree lashed to each masthead, interlacing its branches with the rigging, jutting out into queer-looking arbors. Three of the mortar vessels being stationed on the east bank to operate gainst Fort St. Philip, a different 'disguise' was adopted, since to dress them up arborically would be only to render them the more conspicuous. The sides of these vessels were therefore covered with a shaggy wall of aquatic growth, and really looked like a continuation of the marsh. Anything more characteristic of Yankee invention was never beheld."— Frank Leslie, 1896

Masquerade of War

"The Masquerade of War. Ingenious method of disguising the masts and hulls of Commodore Porter's morter…

Spider frightened Miss Muffett away.

Miss Muffett

Spider frightened Miss Muffett away.

"Soldiers participating in a burlesque dress parade. Thanksgiving festivities at Fort Pulaski, Ga., Thursday, November 27th, 1862. While the loyal citizens of the North were eating their turkeys the Federal soldiers in the South were also celebrating their Thanksgiving. We illustrate the amusement indulged in at Fort Pulaski, Ga. The grand attraction of the day, however, was th <em>fete</em> given by the officers of the Forty-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers, Colonel Barton, and Company G, Third Rhode Island Regiment."— Frank Leslie, 1896

Burlesque Dress Parade

"Soldiers participating in a burlesque dress parade. Thanksgiving festivities at Fort Pulaski, Ga.,…

"The investment of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark., by the Federal troops under General McClernand, and its bombardment by the Federal gunboats commanded by Rear Admiral D. D. Porter, January 11th, 1863. Fort Hindman was what is known in military parlance as a star fort, with four angles- two on the river and two extending nearly to the morass in the rear. In front of the southwestern angle was a cluster of small houses, into which the enemy had thrown their sharpshooters, and from which a most galling fire was poured upon Burbridge's brigade, which stormed them and carried them by assault. At the given signal, on went the splendid brigade with a shout and a yell, now floundering like bemired horses in the morass, then pausing to dress their lines as if on parade, and anon charging again, regardless of the storm of grape and shell, shot and canister that pelted pitilessly around them. For three long hours they fought ere the houses were carried and made to screen the Federal troops. All that while sharpshooters were picking off, from their secure hiding places, officers and men; 10-pound Parrotts were sending their hissing messengers of death through the lines of the devoted brigade, crushing its bones, spattering its brains, and strewing its path with mangeled corpses and dying men. At last the houses were gained and occupied by the Eighty-third Ohio, which, with the Ninety-sixth Ohio, the Sixteenth, the Sixtieth and Sixty-seventh Indiana and the Twenty-third Wisconsin, had fought for them so gallantly."— Frank Leslie, 1896

Fort Hindman

"The investment of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark., by the Federal troops under General McClernand,…

Silvio the villager and Nedda, the wife of canio, from Ruggiero Leoncavallo's <em>Pacliacci.</em>

Silvio and Nedda

Silvio the villager and Nedda, the wife of canio, from Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pacliacci.

"Head-dress for the Mischianza."&mdash;Lossing, 1851

Head-Dress

"Head-dress for the Mischianza."—Lossing, 1851

"A plume composed of feathers arranged in imitation of the feathers on the head of the heron, and worn on helmets or by ladies as a part of their head-dress, etc."-Whitney, 1902

Aigret

"A plume composed of feathers arranged in imitation of the feathers on the head of the heron, and worn…

"Examples of Greek Head-dresses (Ampyxes)."-Whitney, 1902

Ampyx

"Examples of Greek Head-dresses (Ampyxes)."-Whitney, 1902

"Diving Apparatuses are contrivances by means of which divers are enabled to remain a considerable time under water. As the most skillful divers are unable to remain under water more than two or three minutes without artificial respiration, means have been devised by hermetically sealed helmets, diving bells, and diving dresses, so that they can stay for several hours at a time at considerable depths of water and at the same time carry on their work."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Diving Dress

"Diving Apparatuses are contrivances by means of which divers are enabled to remain a considerable time…

"Miter, or Mitre, is a form of head-dress worn by the inhabitants of Asia Minor; a head-band. In religion, the head-dress of a bishop. The episcopal miter was doubtless suggested by that of the Jewish high priest."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Miter

"Miter, or Mitre, is a form of head-dress worn by the inhabitants of Asia Minor; a head-band. In religion,…

"Amphyces, Frontlets. A frontal, a broad band or plate of metal, which ladies of rank wore above the forehead as part of the head-dress. The frontal of a horse was called by the same name. The annexed cut exhibits the frontal on the head of Pegasus, in conrast with the corresponding ornament as shown on the heads of two females." &mdash; Smith, 1873

Amphyx

"Amphyces, Frontlets. A frontal, a broad band or plate of metal, which ladies of rank wore above the…

Scene from the story, "How Mary Got a New Dress."

Mary

Scene from the story, "How Mary Got a New Dress."

Scene from the story, "How Mary Got a New Dress."

Mary

Scene from the story, "How Mary Got a New Dress."

Scene from the story, "The Plaid Dress."

Shepherd

Scene from the story, "The Plaid Dress."

Scene from the story, "The Plaid Dress."

Spinners

Scene from the story, "The Plaid Dress."

"Sphinx is a Greek word signifying 'strangler,' applied to certain symbolical forms of Egyptian origin, having the body of a lion, a human or an animal head, and two wings. Various other combinations of animal forms have been called by this name, though they are rather griffins or chim&aelig;ras. Human-headed sphinxes have been called andro-sphinxes; that with the head of a ram, a criosphinx; and that with a hawk's head, a hieracosphinx. The form when complete had the wings added at the sides; but these are of a later period and seem to have originated with the Babylonians or Assyrians. In Egypt the sphinx also occurs as the symbolical form of the monarch considered as a conqueror, the head of the reigning king being placed on a loin's body, the face bearded, and the usual head dress. Thus used, the sphinx was generally male; but in the case of female rulers that figure has a female head and the body of a lioness. The most remarkable sphinx is the Great Sphinx at Gizeh (Giza), a colossal form hewn out of the natural rock, and lying about a quarter of a mile S.E. of the Great Pyramid. It is sculptured out of a spur of the rock itself, to which masonry has been added in certain places to complete the shape, and it measures 172 feet 6 inches long by 56 feet high."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Sphinx

"Sphinx is a Greek word signifying 'strangler,' applied to certain symbolical forms of Egyptian origin,…

"A dress which had only a sleeve for the left arm, leaving the right with the shoulder ad a part of the breast free, and was for this reason called exomis. It is represented in the following figure of Charon." &mdash; Smith, 1873.

Exomis

"A dress which had only a sleeve for the left arm, leaving the right with the shoulder ad a part of…

"A brooch, consisting of a pin, and of a curved portion furnished with a hook. The curved portion was sometimes a circular ring or disc, the pin passing across its centre and sometimes an arc, the pin being as the chord, of the arc. The forms of brooches, which were commonly of gold or bronze, and more rarely of silver, were, however, as various in ancient as in modern times; for the fibula served in dress not merely as a fastening, but also as an ornament." &mdash; Smith, 1873.

Fibula

"A brooch, consisting of a pin, and of a curved portion furnished with a hook. The curved portion was…

"The <em>peplus</em> was a shawl which commonly formed part of the dress of females. It was often fastened by meeans ofa brooch, but was frequently worn without one, in the manner represented in the annexed cut, which is copied from one of Sir W. Hamilton's vases. Each of the females in this group wears an under garmet falling down to her feet, and over it an ample <em>peplus</em>, or shawl, which she passes entirely round her body, and then throws the loose extremity of it over her left shoulder, and behind her back as distinctly seen in the sitting figure." &mdash; Anthon, 1891

Peplus

"The peplus was a shawl which commonly formed part of the dress of females. It was often fastened…

"An eastern head-dress, sometimes spoken of as a characteristic of the Phrygians. It was also the name of the head-band or head-dress worn by Greek women, which was made of close materials. It must be distinguished from the reticulum, made of net." &mdash; Smith, 1873

Mitra

"An eastern head-dress, sometimes spoken of as a characteristic of the Phrygians. It was also the name…

"A Nebris is a fawn's skin, worn originally by hunters and others, as an appropriate part of their dress, and afterwards attributed to Bacchus, and consequently assumed by his votaries in the processions and ceremonies which they observed in honour of him. The annexed woodcut taken from Sir William Hamilton's vases, shows a riestess of Bacchus in the attitude of offering a nebris to him or to one of his ministers." &mdash; Smith, 1873

Nebris

"A Nebris is a fawn's skin, worn originally by hunters and others, as an appropriate part of their dress,…

A lady dressed in fifteenth century fashion.

Lady of Fifteenth Century

A lady dressed in fifteenth century fashion.

A gentleman dressed in fifteenth century fashion.

Gentleman of Fifteenth Century

A gentleman dressed in fifteenth century fashion.

A couple dressed in sixteenth century fashion.

Man and Woman of Sixeenth Century

A couple dressed in sixteenth century fashion.

A citizen in the time of Charles I; dressed in clothing of the time.

Citizen

A citizen in the time of Charles I; dressed in clothing of the time.

A lady dressed old fashioned

Lady

A lady dressed old fashioned

"A female dress worn over the tunic; it came as low as the ankles or feet, and was fastened round the body by a girdle, leaving above the breast broad folds. The tunic did not reach much below the knee, but the essential distinction between the tunic and stole seems to have been, that the latter always had an institia or flounce sewed to the bottom and reaching to the instep. Over the stole the palla or pallium was worn, as we see in the cut annexed." &mdash; Smith, 1873

Stola

"A female dress worn over the tunic; it came as low as the ankles or feet, and was fastened round the…

A woman in an old style dress

Woman

A woman in an old style dress

Girls playing dress up

Dress Up

Girls playing dress up

A girl playing dress up

Dress Up

A girl playing dress up

A tunic garmet usually worn by both men and women among the ancient greeks.

Chiton

A tunic garmet usually worn by both men and women among the ancient greeks.

"Talaria, small wings fixed to the ankles of Mercury, and reckoned among his attributes. In many works of ancient art they are represented growing from his ankles as if they were a part of his bodily frame; but more frequently they are attached to him as a part of his dress, agreeably to the description of the poets; and this is commonly done by representing him with sandals, which have wings fastened to them on each side over the ankles. But there is a most beautiful bronze statue of this divinity in the museum at Naples, in which the artist, instead of the sole of a sandal, has made the straps unite in a rosette under the middle of the foot, evidently intending, by this elegant device, to represent the messenger of the gods as borne through space without touching the ground. A representation is seen in the preceding cut." &mdash Smith; 1873

Talaria

"Talaria, small wings fixed to the ankles of Mercury, and reckoned among his attributes. In many works…

"Tiara or Tiaras, a hat with a large high crown. This was the head-dress which characterized the north-western Asiatics, and more especially the Armenians, Parthians, and Persians, as distinguished from the Greeks and Romans, whose hats fitted the head, or had only a low crown. The king of Persia wore an erect tiara, whilst those of his subjects were soft and flexible, falling on one side. The Persian name for this regal head-dress was cidaris. " &mdash Smith; 1873

Tiara

"Tiara or Tiaras, a hat with a large high crown. This was the head-dress which characterized the north-western…

Costume about the middle of the 17th Century.

17th Century

Costume about the middle of the 17th Century.

Costume about the middle of the 17th Century.

17th Century

Costume about the middle of the 17th Century.