1. Notes: 459 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Woman with lily c. 1903 by Eva Watson-Schütze [more] also from George Eastman House

    Woman with lily c. 1903 by Eva Watson-Schütze [more]

    also from George Eastman House

     
  2. Notes: 97 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     Woman seated, holding daguerreotype, c. 1850 from George Eastman House

     Woman seated, holding daguerreotype, c. 1850

    from George Eastman House

     
  3. Notes: 179 / 1 year ago  from sfmoma
    sfmoma:Eadweard J. Muybridge, pioneer of motion photography and Google Doodle recipient, was so unique that he couldn’t stick with his given name, Edward.  And that was long before the days of Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) and Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta). The English photographer was an original whose stunning accomplishments were dimmed — at least for a time — by sordid, bloody happenings in his personal life… Read more on latimes.com

    sfmoma:Eadweard J. Muybridge, pioneer of motion photography and Google Doodle recipient, was so unique that he couldn’t stick with his given name, Edward.  And that was long before the days of Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) and Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta).

    The English photographer was an original whose stunning accomplishments were dimmed — at least for a time — by sordid, bloody happenings in his personal life…

    Read more on latimes.com

     
  4. Notes: 116 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Studio Fishing A unique real photo postcard from AtypicalArt

    Studio Fishing

    A unique real photo postcard

    from AtypicalArt

     
  5. Notes: 270 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     Edward Weston, Portrait of a Woman,  1916 currently on sale @  Phillips de Pury & Company  from la lettre

     Edward Weston, Portrait of a Woman,  1916

    currently on sale @  Phillips de Pury & Company 

    from la lettre

     
  6. Notes: 200 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     La Sylphe (the Dancer Suffrage)

     La Sylphe (the Dancer Suffrage)

     
  7. Notes: 78 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     Anonymous - Portrait of Two Young Girls Seated with Hands in their Lap, c.1850

     Anonymous - Portrait of Two Young Girls Seated with Hands in their Lap, c.1850

     
  8. Notes: 1789 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Gertrude Hubbell, Ruth Peters and Mildred Grimwood, hiking their skirts at the shoreline of the beach in Averne, Queens, New York, NY photo by Wallace G. Levison, September 8, 1897

    Gertrude Hubbell, Ruth Peters and Mildred Grimwood, hiking their skirts at the shoreline of the beach in Averne, Queens, New York, NY

    photo by Wallace G. Levison, September 8, 1897

     
  9. Notes: 2149 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Au Jardin Fleuri ,1899 by Constant Puyo

    Au Jardin Fleuri ,1899 by Constant Puyo

     
  10. Notes: 669 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Juin, 1899 by Constant Puyo

    Juin, 1899 by Constant Puyo

     
  11. Notes: 108 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Trost, 1905 by Siri Fischer-Schneevoigt

    Trost, 1905 by Siri Fischer-Schneevoigt

     
  12. Notes: 106 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Photoengraving from Camera Work by Edward Steichen

    Photoengraving from Camera Work by Edward Steichen

     
  13. Notes: 217 / 1 year ago 
    “Alas, that spring should vanish with the rose” by Mrs. G.A.Barton  plate XXVIII from Photograms of the year 1914

    “Alas, that spring should vanish with the rose” by Mrs. G.A.Barton

     plate XXVIII from Photograms of the year 1914

     
  14. Notes: 217 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Who’ll make the shroud?I, said the Beetle,with my thread and needle,I’ll make the shroud. Illustrations by H. L. Stephens for Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin, circa 1865 many thanks to 50 Watts

    Who’ll make the shroud?
    I, said the Beetle,
    with my thread and needle,
    I’ll make the shroud.

    Illustrations by H. L. Stephens for Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin, circa 1865

    many thanks to 50 Watts

     
  15. Notes: 3733 / 1 year ago  from frenchtwist (originally from mudwerks)
    Paris, 20 November 1903: the ghostly form of an airship floats past an equally ghostly Eiffel Tower, before a very solid crowd of completely entranced spectators. It is Le Jaune, ‘The Yellow’, the first of the successful Lebaudy series of French semi-rigid airships. from frenchtwist: mudwerks:Airminded · The Yellow

    Paris, 20 November 1903: the ghostly form of an airship floats past an equally ghostly Eiffel Tower, before a very solid crowd of completely entranced spectators. It is Le Jaune, ‘The Yellow’, the first of the successful Lebaudy series of French semi-rigid airships.

    from frenchtwist: mudwerks:Airminded · The Yellow

     
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