mid-1800s
Pre-Civil War era
The mid-1800s refers to the middle portion of the nineteenth century, roughly the 1840s through 1860s.
The term is imprecise by design, useful when exact dates are unknown or unnecessary: Photography emerged in the mid-1800s.
Also written mid-eighteen hundreds.
Of a prim era
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- Gold RushHistoric prospector migration
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
Crimean War · Opium Wars · colonialism · imperialism · abolitionism · westward expansion · British Empire
Electrical message system
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- sewing machineDevice for joining fabric
reaper · locomotive · ironworks · cotton gin · gaslight · printing press · factory · mechanization
Surname of Victorian novelist
- BronteVictorian literary surname
- HawthorneSurname from spiny shrubs
- Thoreau19th-century American naturalist-essayist
- EmersonAnglo surname, various namesakes
Melville · serialized · penny dreadful · transcendentalism · romanticism · gothic · realism · broadsheet
Structural petticoat for volume
- parlorFormal room for visitors
- corsetBoned waist-shaping undergarment
- top hatTall formal headwear
- drawing roomFormal reception space
calling cards · governess · servants · etiquette · ballroom · carriage · gentility · boarding house
Reddish-brown pigment
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- tintypePhotograph on metal sheet
- gaslitMade to doubt reality
- cobblestoneRiver-smoothed paving stone
vintage · antiquarian · period piece · quaint · old-fashioned · rustic · ornate · Victorian architecture
Victorian
Of a prim era
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- Gold RushHistoric prospector migration
manifest destiny · Crimean War · Opium Wars · colonialism · imperialism · abolitionism · westward expansion · British Empire
telegraph
Electrical message system
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
sewing machine · reaper · locomotive · ironworks · cotton gin · gaslight · printing press · factory · mechanization · steamship
Dickens
Surname of Victorian novelist
- BronteVictorian literary surname
- HawthorneSurname from spiny shrubs
- Thoreau19th-century American naturalist-essayist
Melville · Emerson · serialized · penny dreadful · transcendentalism · romanticism · gothic · realism · broadsheet · almanac
crinoline
Structural petticoat for volume
drawing room · calling cards · governess · servants · etiquette · ballroom · carriage · gentility · boarding house · temperance
sepia
Reddish-brown pigment
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- tintypePhotograph on metal sheet
- gaslitMade to doubt reality
cobblestone · vintage · antiquarian · period piece · quaint · old-fashioned · rustic · ornate · Victorian architecture · wrought iron
mid-1800smodern times
The contemporary era
contemporary era · today · 21st century · nowadays · antiquity