1. Notes: 345 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Loïe Fuller dancing with her veil, 1897 by Isaiah West Taber from Réunion des musées nationaux

    Loïe Fuller dancing with her veil, 1897 by Isaiah West Taber

    from Réunion des musées nationaux

     
  2. Notes: 452 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Gaudenzio Marconi, Academic Nude, c.1870

    Gaudenzio Marconi, Academic Nude, c.1870

     
  3. Notes: 128 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     Aurora Studios, Nude No. 906, 1913

     Aurora Studios, Nude No. 906, 1913

     
  4. Notes: 47 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Aurora Studios, Nude No. 31, 1913

    Aurora Studios, Nude No. 31, 1913

     
  5. Notes: 149 / 1 year ago 
    Charles Gilhousen, Seated Nude Female Touching Tree, 1919 [also]

    Charles Gilhousen, Seated Nude Female Touching Tree, 1919 [also]

     
  6. Notes: 130 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Charles Gilhousen, Seated Nude Woman with Lyre , c.1915 [also]

    Charles Gilhousen, Seated Nude Woman with Lyre , c.1915 [also]

     
  7. Notes: 108 / 1 year ago  from i12bent
    i12bent:American psychological novelist of the highest caliber, Edith Wharton: Jan. 24, 1862 - 1937… Works such as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Summer and The Age of Innocence equal the psychological insight and stylistic accomplishments of her contemporary Henry James. “Ah, good conversation - there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence Photo of a young Wharton and one of her many canine ompanions - “My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.” - courtesy of The Beinecke…

    i12bent:American psychological novelist of the highest caliber, Edith Wharton: Jan. 24, 1862 - 1937…

    Works such as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Summer and The Age of Innocence equal the psychological insight and stylistic accomplishments of her contemporary Henry James.

    “Ah, good conversation - there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

    Photo of a young Wharton and one of her many canine ompanions - “My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.” - courtesy of The Beinecke…

     
  8. Notes: 423 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Anvisa Richter 

    Anvisa Richter 

     
  9. Notes: 232 / 1 year ago 
    Dancer, behind the scenes. (Oil Pigment Photo, c1909)   Photographer: Robert Demachy, Paris   from servatius

    Dancer, behind the scenes. (Oil Pigment Photo, c1909)  

    Photographer: Robert Demachy, Paris  

    from servatius

     
  10. Notes: 113 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Marjorie Rambeau (1889-1970), american actress, in Israel Zangwill’s play Merely Mary Ann,1915 by Fred Hartsook

    Marjorie Rambeau (1889-1970), american actress, in Israel Zangwill’s play Merely Mary Ann,1915 by Fred Hartsook

     
  11. Notes: 223 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Lillian Gish c.1915 by Fred Hartsook [another one from this series here ]

    Lillian Gish c.1915 by Fred Hartsook

    [another one from this series here ]

     
  12. Notes: 306 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Mary Pickford by Fred Hartsook, 1918 [see also] from trialsanderrors

    Mary Pickford by Fred Hartsook, 1918

    [see also]

    from trialsanderrors

     
  13. Notes: 284 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    “I want my dark lady. I want my angel. I want my tempter. I want the lighter of my seven lamps of beauty, honour, laughter, music, love, life and immortality. I want my inspiration, my folly, my happiness, my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my final sanity and sanctification, my transfiguration, my purification, my light across the sea, my palm across the desert, my garden of lovely flowers, my million nameless joys, my day’s wage, my night’s dream, my darling and my star.” ~ George Bernard Shaw in a letter to Mrs. Campbell. Mrs. Campbell 1865 – 1940 was a British actress; the first actress to play “Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, which was the inspiration for the musical My Fair Lady. via Moniques Passions

    “I want my dark lady. I want my angel. I want my tempter. I want the lighter of my seven lamps of beauty, honour, laughter, music, love, life and immortality. I want my inspiration, my folly, my happiness, my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my final sanity and sanctification, my transfiguration, my purification, my light across the sea, my palm across the desert, my garden of lovely flowers, my million nameless joys, my day’s wage, my night’s dream, my darling and my star.” ~ George Bernard Shaw in a letter to Mrs. Campbell.

    Mrs. Campbell 1865 – 1940 was a British actress; the first actress to play “Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, which was the inspiration for the musical My Fair Lady. via Moniques Passions

     
  14. Notes: 417 / 1 year ago 
    Found this and thought of your great blog. We’re all big fans here at the museum. TEN WAYS TO COMMIT SUICIDE Wearing thin shoes and stockings and insufficient clothing in cold and rainy weather ; leading a lazy, excited theater-going, dancing life ; sleeping on feathers in a 7 by 9 room ; eating hot, stimulating food, too fast and a great deal too much of it at improper times ; beginning with tea and coffee in childhood and adding tobacco and spirits in due time ; marrying in haste and living in continual ferment thereafter ; following unhealthy occupations to make money ; taking bitters and confections and gormandizing between meals  ; giving way to fits of passion, or keeping in perpetual worry ; going to bed at midnight and getting up at noon, and eating when you catch it. To which may be added a recipe for killing children ; paregorics, cordials, candy and rich cake ; and when they are made sick thereby, mercury, tartar-emetic, castor oil and sulphur. found in the collection of the Dufferin County Museum & Archives. Source: Orangeville Sun, 1876. Awwww, this is so FANTASTIC, I think they’re right now more than ever;] thank You so much!!! love t.o.t.c. 

    Found this and thought of your great blog. We’re all big fans here at the museum.

    TEN WAYS TO COMMIT SUICIDE

    Wearing thin shoes and stockings and insufficient clothing in cold and rainy weather ; leading a lazy, excited theater-going, dancing life ; sleeping on feathers in a 7 by 9 room ; eating hot, stimulating food, too fast and a great deal too much of it at improper times ; beginning with tea and coffee in childhood and adding tobacco and spirits in due time ; marrying in haste and living in continual ferment thereafter ; following unhealthy occupations to make money ; taking bitters and confections and gormandizing between meals  ; giving way to fits of passion, or keeping in perpetual worry ; going to bed at midnight and getting up at noon, and eating when you catch it. To which may be added a recipe for killing children ; paregorics, cordials, candy and rich cake ; and when they are made sick thereby, mercury, tartar-emetic, castor oil and sulphur.

    found in the collection of the Dufferin County Museum & Archives. Source: Orangeville Sun, 1876.

    Awwww, this is so FANTASTIC, I think they’re right now more than ever;]

    thank You so much!!!

    love t.o.t.c. 

     
  15. Notes: 142 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Miss Gertie Millar. c. 1905

    Miss Gertie Millar. c. 1905

     
avatar_128
 
 

welcome to the Turn of the Century. Everything strange and beautiful from 1850s to 1920s goes here;] your hosts are billyjane and the transcedental modernist. You can be a contributor as well! place your bets: here [questions, suggestions,everything else: bidzibidzi@gmail.com] Turn of the Century

 
 

Tumblr