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The Overstuffed Parlor

The Overstuffed Parlor
Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: INDOOR SHOTS - With a focus on the style of the room.
This is a glass plate negative, and not a particularly good one technically, but it's a great little peek into the crowded, overstuffed typical decor of the late Victorian/Edwardian home.
There's the small table covered with a fringed cloth and topped with an oil lamp, framed photographs, and (I think) a decorative, cut glass bowl. There's the highly patterned wallpaper, and the full lace curtains with a top frill (or whatever they're called), covering the window shades. The heavily framed photographs are hung up high on the wall (the tops are higher than the top of the window frames.) There are stuffed, decorated pillows on a corner (bench, settle?) and to top it all off is a potted plant (is it really an aspidistra?)
There had to have been a round table and a covered piano on the other side of the room!

raingirl, Alan Mays, Smiley Derleth, Frans Schols have particularly liked this photo


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 Alan Mays
Alan Mays club
A classic parlor shot! I especially like the patterns in the wallpaper and pillows.
4 years ago.
 Phil Sutters
Phil Sutters club
When I first started working as a social worker in the late 1960s there were still parlors or 'front rooms' with many of the features shown above, in the homes of my elderly clients. I don't remember anyone using an oil lamp, but one lady still had gas lighting.
4 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
That was such a working class term, right? My family, relatives and friends all referred to the kitchen and "The Front Room".
Probably similar to the American parlor - the (often) cold room used for special occasions.
4 years ago.
 Marta Wojtkowska
Marta Wojtkowska club
superb interior!
4 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Thank you, Marta. It's a found glass plate negative.
4 years ago.

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