The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things

Some good life advice: don’t let anyone take a picture of you taking snuff, unless you want to be immortalized as a Victorian nose-picker.  Snuff is a form of tobacco ground into a fine powder, taken by snorting a little pinch up one’s nose. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was a luxury only the rich could afford. So in these pictures, the posh ladies are trying to demonstrate their social standing by posing with a status symbol. But […]

Categories: Curiosities, Strange Photographs • Tags: curiosities, nose, photography, victorian era, weird, women