44 Incredible Photos That Show the 19th Century World

A woman in her carriage and a man in a top hat looking on, Brighton, 

circa 1862-1867

Dartmouth, South Devon, circa 1860s

Ballarat Hospital, Victoria, Australia, circa 1860

A farmer with his horse and wagon, circa 1860s

A couples in front of their house, circa 1860s

A young lady by the river, circa 1860s

Crowhurst Church, Sussex, 1862

Princess of Wales and her sons, 1866

St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, 1865

Government House, Tasmania, 1865

Castle and Chapel on St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, 1865

A group of people taken in a forest setting, 1865

Benedictine monastery in Burgundy's Morvan Forest, France, 1865

Mother and her children. Dated on the back "July 19, 1863"

Big house on the prairie, circa 1870s

A carriage painter and trimmer's workshop, circa 1870s

An older British man with his arm resting on a fence in an outdoor 

setting, circa 1870s

An unknown household, its two children, and their dogs, circa 1870s

Four men, 1870

The main street of a rural North American town, 1870

A family and a dog, 1880

A row of buildings with a mule drawn cart and its driver, 1880

An 1880s photo by photographer James P. Lind of Melbourne of some tired 

looking kids and their teachers from an unidentified school in Victoria, Australia

Maldon Hospital, circa 1880s

Victorian family home, somewhere in Victoria, Australia, 1880

In the woods, 1884

J. Newson's Hay & Corn Store at 318 Victoria Street, Richmond, on the 

corner with Johnson Street, 1885

The Pottergate, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, 1885

Three men on a hillside, 1885

The grave of A.J. Brown, 1889

Vance's Mill in Chalybeate Spring, Kentucky, 1889

Victorian house and garden, 1889

A man on horseback at 'Pepper Corn Tree Farm', Leichardt, Victoria, 1890

 A steam train and its drivers, Michigan, 1890

A uniformed man standing in the snow in front of a railway bridge,
somewhere in Canada, 1890

Men in front of a tent, somewhere in Victoria, Australia, 1890

Queensland cane farmer, 1890

Staged execution. Dated July 21st 1890 on the back, with the name Myra 

R. Wonderly and the address Grand Rapids, Michigan also inscribed

The famous ruins of Tintern Abbey, Wales, 1890

A family apparently on a seaside holiday, somewhere in England, 1895

A family in front of their house in Sydney, New South Wales, 1895

Family on the rocks, 1895

Victorian picnic, 1895

 Woman with bike and child, 1895

Photos via Leigh McKinnon on Flickr