1. Notes: 111 / 3 years ago  from ontheborderland
    ontheborderland:Oldest known photograph of a tornado, South Dakota, 22 miles southwest of Howard, 28 August 1884. (via NOAA Photo Library)

    ontheborderland:Oldest known photograph of a tornado, South Dakota, 22 miles southwest of Howard, 28 August 1884.

    (via NOAA Photo Library)

     
  2. Notes: 28 / 3 years ago  from billyjane
    billyjane:Opium on film :Unknown still, France,1919

    billyjane:Opium on film :Unknown still, France,1919

     
  3. Notes: 32 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Super Butterfly Girl postcard 1915 via kingkongphoto123

    Super Butterfly Girl postcard 1915 via kingkongphoto123

     
  4. Notes: 82 / 3 years ago  from billyjane
    billyjane:Musidora in Les Vampires,1915 [download available  here;] via mythologie des lucioles

    billyjane:Musidora in Les Vampires,1915

    [download available  here;]

    via mythologie des lucioles

     
  5. Notes: 14 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    The Sirens by Maurice William Greiffenhagen,1919

    The Sirens by Maurice William Greiffenhagen,1919

     
  6. Notes: 8 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    The Depths of the Sea by Sir Edward Burne-Jones,1887

    The Depths of the Sea by Sir Edward Burne-Jones,1887

     
  7. Notes: 68 / 3 years ago  from billyjane
    billyjane:Schiele ~Reclining female nude with black stockings,1911

    billyjane:Schiele ~Reclining female nude with black stockings,1911

     
  8. Notes: 112 / 3 years ago  from ontheborderland
    ontheborderland:‘Trombes’ aka Waterspouts.  A sailing vessel in peril from multiple waterspouts, illustration from Les Meteores, Margolle et Zurcher, 1869. (via www.photolib.noaa.gov)

    ontheborderland:‘Trombes’ aka Waterspouts.  A sailing vessel in peril from multiple waterspouts, illustration from Les Meteores, Margolle et Zurcher, 1869.

    (via www.photolib.noaa.gov)

     
  9. Notes: 34 / 3 years ago  from mudwerks
    mudwerks:Anna Held, 1900 — Atomic Antiques Anna Held (1873-1918), a stage star known for her suggestive manner and risque songs, shown here in 1900.

    mudwerks:Anna Held, 1900 — Atomic Antiques

    Anna Held (1873-1918), a stage star known for her suggestive manner and risque songs, shown here in 1900.

     
  10. Notes: 25 / 3 years ago  from sealmaiden
    sealmaiden:Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson and Family Photo: Oscar Gustave Rejlander “Nature, red in tooth and claw”, “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all”, “Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die”, “My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure”, “Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers”, and “The old order changeth, yielding place to new”. He is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare.[2]

    sealmaiden:Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson and Family

    Photo: Oscar Gustave Rejlander

    “Nature, red in tooth and claw”, “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all”, “Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die”, “My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure”, “Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers”, and “The old order changeth, yielding place to new”. He is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare.[2]

     
  11. Notes: 118 / 3 years ago  from killerbeesting
    killerbeesting:portrait of a woman, 1916 by edward weston

    killerbeesting:portrait of a woman, 1916 by edward weston

     
  12. Notes: 26 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    adski_kafeteri: Maharaja Duleep Singh Maharajah of the Punjab. ca 1860s

    adski_kafeteri: Maharaja Duleep Singh Maharajah of the Punjab. ca 1860s

     
  13. Notes: 9 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Lewton Parker ~Paresse,1913

    Lewton Parker ~Paresse,1913

     
  14. Notes: 46 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Jose Maria Sert ~Couple c.1905-10

    Jose Maria Sert ~Couple c.1905-10

     
  15. Notes: 16 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Léon François Commere ~Pluie d’or,c.1900s

    Léon François Commere ~Pluie d’or,c.1900s

     
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