#1800s — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔍🏛️ A #study from the University of #Exeter shows that as early as the 1830s, a #London #realestate firm called Brooks and Hedger used cosmoramas to sell high-end estates.

A #cosmorama was a gallery of #paintings viewed through a magnifying lens, giving the illusion of depth and depth of field. Artists hand-painted bird’s-eye views of each listing, offering buyers an early “virtual tour” more than a century before the #internet.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/19th-century-real-estate-peeopshow-preview/

#history #1800s #19thcentury #tech #technology #innovation #culture #victorianera #art #science #zillow

✊🏽🇺🇸 Narrated by #LeVarBurton, the #poem Lift Every Voice and Sing powers this #animation in celebration of the anniversary of Juneteenth.

#Juneteenth marks the day when enslaved Black people in #Galveston, #Texas finally received news of their liberation in 1865.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/juneteenth-animation-google-doodle-for-kids

#1800s #america #americanhistory #art #artist #civics #civilrights #community #drawing #equalrights #google #government #history #holidays #poetry #racism #slavery #tksst #video

7 revamped recipes from the 1800s that are still mouth-wateringly delicious

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/revamped-delicious-meals-from1800s

These Historical Figures Lived Long Enough to be Painted and Photographed https://petapixel.com/2025/11/04/these-historical-figures-lived-long-enough-to-be-painted-and-photographed/ #earlyphotography #kingsandqueens #daguerreotype #19thcentury #historical #paintings #Features #likeness #monarchy #history #painter #royalty #Analog #1800s

@lychee
I've read about #urbanGardens in the form of #rooftopGardens and #verticalGardens before, and I agree it's an awesome concept which I'd like to see more of.
Even just growing grass on #sodRoofs, as they used to do here in #Norway at least since the #1800s, and still is quite common on cabins, would make quite a difference: https://www.nibio.no/nyheter/mye-rart-p-norske-hyttetak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod_roof