1. Notes: 9 / 3 years ago 
    Alfred Stieglitz ~Ellen Koeniger, Lake George, 1916 [also]

    Alfred Stieglitz ~Ellen Koeniger, Lake George, 1916 [also]

     
  2. Notes: 31 / 3 years ago  from billyjane
    billyjane:Arnold Genthe ~Isadora Duncan ,1910s

    billyjane:Arnold Genthe ~Isadora Duncan ,1910s

     
  3. Notes: 20 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Florence Lundeborg ~The Lark for May,1896 via Swann Galleries

    Florence Lundeborg ~The Lark for May,1896

    via Swann Galleries

     
  4. Notes: 14 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Charles Dana Gibson ~Stepped on,1901

    Charles Dana Gibson ~Stepped on,1901

     
  5. Notes: 107 / 3 years ago  from akubizone
    akubizone:ANAGLYPH, conversion of original stereoview in my collection. “2491. The Sultan’s Favorite.” copyright 1901 by George W. Griffith. Griffith & Griffith

    akubizone:ANAGLYPH, conversion of original stereoview in my collection. “2491.

    The Sultan’s Favorite.” copyright 1901 by George W. Griffith. Griffith & Griffith

     
  6. Notes: 49 / 3 years ago  from oldbookillustrations
    oldbookillustrations:Jessie M. King, cover design of The high history of the Holy Graal, London, New york, 1903. Via archive.org

    oldbookillustrations:Jessie M. King, cover design of The high history of the Holy Graal, London, New york, 1903.

    Via archive.org

     
  7. Notes: 71 / 3 years ago  from rrosehobart
    defrag:Poster of Louis Feuillade’s Les vampires, 1915 via li-an.fr

    defrag:Poster of Louis Feuillade’s Les vampires, 1915

    via li-an.fr

     
  8. Notes: 69 / 3 years ago  from akubizone
    akubizone:de nieuwste lichting

    akubizone:de nieuwste lichting

     
  9. Notes: 8 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Man balancing chair: Professor Carter by Pascal Descartes

    Man balancing chair: Professor Carter by Pascal Descartes

     
  10. Notes: 9 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Marie Tempest Cabinet Card by Sarony

    Marie Tempest Cabinet Card by Sarony

     
  11. Notes: 80 / 3 years ago  from billyjane
    billyjane:Major Littlefinger and Wife Cabinet by Eisenmann [for Jim;] Grand cabinet photo featuring midget circus performer Major Littlefinger and his wife by famed freak photographer, Charles Eisenmann. His real name was Robert H. Huzza. Littlefinger has also been identified as Charles Nestel. He began performing around age seven. At that time, midgets were billed in circus sideshows and commonly known as circus freaks. His circus and museum experiences eventually include Sheldenburger & Co. Circus, Great Eastern Circus, Van Armburgh & Co. Circus, Sells Bros. Circus, John Robinson Circus, Signor Sautelle’s Circus, Huber’s Museum, Sanger’s Greater Combined European Shows and the Midget City at Coney Island’s Dreamland Circus Sideshow. Around 1880, Huzza met Mollie McDougal, ‘The Lilliputian Queen’, of Osceola, Iowa. They were married in 1881. She died giving birth to their daughter in 1882. He married Ida Hosmer in 1883. Since she was born in 1855, we believe she is the wife in this picture. Identified in period hand mount verso as ‘Major Littlefinger - Wife Age 30 & 28

    billyjane:Major Littlefinger and Wife Cabinet by Eisenmann [for Jim;]

    Grand cabinet photo featuring midget circus performer Major Littlefinger and his wife by famed freak photographer, Charles Eisenmann. His real name was Robert H. Huzza. Littlefinger has also been identified as Charles Nestel. He began performing around age seven. At that time, midgets were billed in circus sideshows and commonly known as circus freaks. His circus and museum experiences eventually include Sheldenburger & Co. Circus, Great Eastern Circus, Van Armburgh & Co. Circus, Sells Bros. Circus, John Robinson Circus, Signor Sautelle’s Circus, Huber’s Museum, Sanger’s Greater Combined European Shows and the Midget City at Coney Island’s Dreamland Circus Sideshow. Around 1880, Huzza met Mollie McDougal, ‘The Lilliputian Queen’, of Osceola, Iowa. They were married in 1881. She died giving birth to their daughter in 1882. He married Ida Hosmer in 1883. Since she was born in 1855, we believe she is the wife in this picture. Identified in period hand mount verso as ‘Major Littlefinger - Wife Age 30 & 28

     
  12. Notes: 47 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Anna Held by Reutlinger via Chickeyonthego

    Anna Held by Reutlinger

    via Chickeyonthego


     
  13. Notes: 19 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Raphael Kirchner ~Women in the sun

    Raphael Kirchner ~Women in the sun

     
  14. Notes: 31 / 3 years ago  from billyjane
    billyjane:and now,something for the absinthe archive Emile Decoeur ~Untitled [Grim reaper]  c.1910 thanks to bent & TATE

    billyjane:and now,something for the absinthe archive

    Emile Decoeur ~Untitled [Grim reaper]  c.1910

    thanks to bent & TATE

     
  15. Notes: 33 / 3 years ago  from mudwerks
    mudwerks:Vintage Postcard Blog: Twenty Babies on a Windmill (1907) [this has ended my quest for the perfect postcard…]

    mudwerks:Vintage Postcard Blog: Twenty Babies on a Windmill (1907)

    [this has ended my quest for the perfect postcard…]

     
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