1. Notes: 2784 / 1 year ago  from oldhollywood
    oldhollywood:Georges Méliès (left, standing) as a medium in the lost film Phantom Apparitions (1910, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)

    oldhollywood:Georges Méliès (left, standing) as a medium in the lost film Phantom Apparitions (1910, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)

     
  2. Notes: 97 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Kodak Girl: From the Martha Cooper Collection
a book by John P. Jacob
thanks to La Lettre

    Kodak Girl: From the Martha Cooper Collection

    a book by John P. Jacob

    thanks to La Lettre

     
  3. Notes: 555 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     Anonymous - Portrait of Painter with Easel and Frame,1897
     
  4. Notes: 113 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Academy of Mt. St. Vincent in 1915, Bronx
from Gothamist

    Academy of Mt. St. Vincent in 1915, Bronx

    from Gothamist

     
  5. Notes: 191 / 1 year ago  from blueruins
    blueruins:Ophelia (1853) by Paul Edouard Rosset-Granger
     
  6. Notes: 190 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Blankenberghe, baigneurs ,1890s 
The Library of Congress

    Blankenberghe, baigneurs ,1890s 

    The Library of Congress

     
  7. Notes: 135 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    The beach and the sea, Blankenberghe, Belgium, 1890s
The Library of Congress

    The beach and the sea, Blankenberghe, Belgium, 1890s

    The Library of Congress

     
  8. Notes: 218 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    On the Atlantic circa 1905. “An afternoon on the beach.” 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co
also from Shorpy

    On the Atlantic circa 1905. “An afternoon on the beach.” 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co

    also from Shorpy

     
  9. Notes: 59 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1904. “On the beach.” 
 8x10 dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co
from Shorpy 

    Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1904. “On the beach.”

     8x10 dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co

    from Shorpy 

     
  10. Notes: 220 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Charles Delius, Bains de Mer, c.1910
     
  11. Notes: 967 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Tintype Witches (almost), 1875
     
  12. Notes: 96 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
     Dancer in split, wearing top hat by Franco’s Photo Studios
     
  13. Notes: 184 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Nina Payne by Ira L. Hill
     
  14. Notes: 63 / 1 year ago 
    The Standard, April 1900
     
  15. Notes: 117 / 1 year ago 
    A Slight Infraction of the Rules
also from The Standard 558, May 5, 1900

    A Slight Infraction of the Rules

    also from The Standard 558, May 5, 1900

     
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