1880
Post-Reconstruction America era
The year 1880 functions as shorthand for the era around that date—the late nineteenth century, the Gilded Age, the height of Victorian sensibilities: The house was built around 1880.
Like other round-number years, it serves as a temporal landmark when precision isn't needed: fashions of 1880, an 1880 census record.
Ten-year span
- centuryHundred-year span
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
- yearTwelve-month duration
- dateSpecific day or outing
era · epoch · period · timeline · calendar · annum · 1870s · 1890s
Industrial production facility
- smokestacksTall industrial exhaust pipes
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- steamshipBoiler-propelled water vessel
textiles · steel · iron · coal · mining · machinery · manufacturing · mill
Brownish monochrome, vintage effect
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- antiqueOld valued collectible
- vintageQuality from past eras
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
yesteryear · bygone · reminiscence · wistfulness · sentimentality · longing · melancholy · reverie
Boned waist-shaping undergarment
- bustleEnergetic noisy activity
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- parlorFormal room for visitors
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
gentility · propriety · decorum · formality · conservatism · prudishness · temperance · morality
decade
Ten-year span
- centuryHundred-year span
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
- yearTwelve-month duration
date · era · epoch · period · timeline · calendar · annum · 1870s · 1890s · pre-modern
factory
Industrial production facility
- smokestacksTall industrial exhaust pipes
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- railroadPermanent track for trains
steamship · textiles · steel · iron · coal · mining · machinery · manufacturing · mill · mechanization
sepia-toned
Brownish monochrome, vintage effect
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- antiqueOld valued collectible
- vintageQuality from past eras
old-fashioned · yesteryear · bygone · reminiscence · wistfulness · sentimentality · longing · melancholy · reverie · recollection
corset
Boned waist-shaping undergarment
etiquette · gentility · propriety · decorum · formality · conservatism · prudishness · temperance · morality · repression
1880digital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · space age · atomic age · modern era · jet age