Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee on the 20th of June, 1887. This photograph is of Regent Street in London decorated for the event.
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Easter in Ukraine
This 1887 painting of Ukrainian Easter is by Mykola Pymonenko.
Easter in Ukraine is a very significant holiday, with celebrations stretching long before and after the traditional Easter weekend. Ukrainians take baskets to church to be blessed, loaded with traditional foods and decorated with embroidery, candles, and the world-famous pysanky, the hand-painted eggs.
On this day: a new Queen
At 6am on the 20th of June, 1837, eighteen-year-old Victoria was woken to the news she was now Queen of the United Kingdom.
This marked the beginning of the long Victorian era, which concluded with her death in 1901.
The image below, created in 1887, depicts Victoria receiving the news of her accession.
And as illustrated in 1895:
The Eiffel Tower
Beeton’s Christmas Annual, 1887.
Published in England between 1860 and 1898, Beeton’s Christmas Annual introduced Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes in 1887.
On this day: Tiffany Opens in 1837
On the 18th of September, 1837 Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young opened their “stationery and fancy goods emporium” in New York City. Originally called “Tiffany, Young and Ellis” the name was changed to Tiffany & Company when Tiffany took control in 1853.
From then on, the company’s emphasis was on jewellery.
In 1870 they made their move to number 15 Union Square West, the building that can be seen in the picture below:
Tiffany & Company, storage area, circa 1887
In the store circa 1887. On the left is Charles Lewis Tiffany.
(Notice how many women made it into the picture?!)
