Victorian Home & Health

Victorians at home and in everyday culture.

        All resources listed here have something to do with the domestic lives of people living during the Victorian era in: England, Canada, the United States or Australia. My collection here will grow much larger so don't forget to bookmark my website for future updates.

Domestic Life and Health:

• Working Class Mothers
• Dangerous Products and Food
• Read "Stepping Stones to Happiness" - a book about Victorian home & lifestyles
  

Domestic Service:

•  Domestic Maid Servants in The Victorian Era
  

Illustrated Interior Rooms and Furnishings of Victorian Homes:

1. Drawing of a parlor
2. The Brumswick Phonograph
3. A Sunny Victorian Porch
4. Music in The Home
5. Playing in the nursery
6. Resting on the veranda
7. The spinning wheel
8. The bathroom from 1921
9. The ideal kitchen in 1920
10. Listening to piano music
11. The Victorian's kitchen shelf
12. Baby Swing and Baby Carriage
13. A ladies bedroom from 1897
14. Wonderful bed outfit from 1917
15. New style bedroom set made in fumed oak
16. Four piece Mission "den" suite
17. Upolstered davenport couch
18. A Sears Davenport Bed Sofa, 1908
19. Colonial style Morris chair
20. A Victorian cast iron bed 
21. "Songs Without Words" music room

Victorian Era Education: Public & Private:  

• The Governess
  

Illustrations & Scrap About Victorian Family:

1. Churning The Butter
2. After Dinner Storytime
3. A Visit From The Pastor
4. The Hair Cut 
5. Children collecting laurels
6. Grandpa Gives a Lift
7. Braiding Her Hair
8. What's Inside Here?
9. Apology excepted
10. Playing in the nursery
11. Soda fountain days
12. Feeding the men folk...
13. Snowball fight
14. The blooming tree
15. The confession
16. Caring for each other
17. Playing On The Seashore
18. "Don't Wake Baby"
19. Bragging rights
20. The softball game
21. Going for a calf ride
22. The Hug
23. Stacking cards for fun
24. Last coast of the season! 

• Blog by Lady Lisa - All Things Victorian
• HistoryFlix - historic films and stock footage
• Historia - reels from the "good old days"

Menial Labor and Hardships:

• The Climbing Boys
  

Social Reformers: 

• Anna Dickinson
• Susan B. Anthony

The Temperance Movement and Prohibition:

• Temperance Leader Deplores the Increase of Drunkenness
• Temperance Bars
• About "Temperance Drinks" here and here

Death, Dying & The Grave From Newsprint:  

1. Safety First
2. Devastation
3. The Agent of Death
4. Death Cometh