Victorian Visual Culture
An Exhibit Exploring the 19th Century Through Images
Contents: About the Collection | About the About Page | Tech
About the Exhibition
This is an exhibit created and curated by students in VISA 2P90 (Victorian Visual Culture) at Brock University.
Images from the 19th century are super cool. We should all learn more about them. Yay! What else can I say here? Testing, testing, testing.
Why the 19th Century Was Cool
- Photography: Daguerre, Fox Talbot and others rushing to become the first to “fix” an image on a photographic plate. I mean, this is the stuff of drama!
- Have you seen the dresses they wore?
- We start to see the rise of formalized animal advocacy organizations like the RSPCA in Britain.
The site features objects from the Digital Public Library of America and the Wellcome Collection.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source tool for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-STATIC methodology.
This site is built using CollectionBuilder-gh which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.