The Poison Book Project is working to identify old books that contain toxic pigments like arsenic, which made Victorian-era books in the 1800s more eye-catching. Melissa Tedone is leading the project.

But wait, didn’t we just say that the Victorian period only lasted until 1901? Yes. But while elements of Victorian architecture ... Jackson Downing’s pattern books of the 1840s, this ...

Yet this versatility is what made arsenic so ubiquitous in a variety of Victorian-era products, from home decor and wallpaper to clothing and books. When combined with copper oxide and lime, it ...

The features that define Victorian architecture — bright colors ... Building materials favored in the Victorian era, such as dark wood, also help conjure a macabre atmosphere.

Architecture blossomed in this era, almost literally ... Christmas cards, children's books and toys, such as doll houses and model train layouts, feature Victorian houses with striking regularity ...

Anne Sykes’s collection of fabric remnants, lovingly preserved in an album, documents not merely her life but the Victorian era. Credit...via Pegasus Books Supported by By Raissa Bretaña When ...

The Victorian era began with the reign of her majesty in 1837, but the namesake architecture came much later to Los Angeles and was the housing style of choice in the area’s first population boom.

Their architecture ... Victorian buildings contumaciously defied. We look on them now with blank horror. Of course, the thing about taste is that it does change. What is acceptable in one era ...