images that haunt us
Percy Anderson’s Chu Chin Chow Costume worn by Miss Patricia Olive, 1916.
is a musical comedy written, produced and directed by
Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, based (with minor
embellishments) on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves.
Pierre-Louis Pierson :: The Countess of Castiglione as
Anne Boleyn, 1867. Virginia Oldoini (Virginia Elisabetta Luisa Carlotta Antonietta Teresa Maria Oldoïni), Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), better known as La Castiglione, was born to an aristocratic family from La Spezia. She was a 19th-century Italian aristocrat who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France. She was also a significant figure in the early history of photography. / src: retro-vintage-photography
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Atelier Manassé :: Hungarian soprano opera singer Mária
Németh
as Turandot, 1932-34 / src: Nóra Mészöly on Flickr
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Olga Spolarics and Adorja’n von Wlassics)
Emil Otto Hoppé :: Lady Hazel Lavery, artist and socialite, wife of Sir John Lavery, Ireland, ca. 1914
/ src: e.o.hoppe.state.collection
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Achille Volpé ::
The Hungarian twins, Eleanor Gutöhrlein and Karla Gutöhrlein, known as ‘The Sisters G’
with an unknown dance partner in the Ziegfeld Follies revue in Chicago, 1932. / src: intriguing-people
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Nils Strindberg ::
The “Örnen” / “Eagle”.
S. A. Andrée and Knut Frænkel with the crashed balloon on the pack ice,
of the disastrous Andrée’s Arctic Balloon expedition, 1897 [Photographed by the third expedition member, Nils Strindberg. The exposed film for this photograph and others from the failed 1897 expedition was recovered in 1930.] / src: wikimedia commons
Takashi Kijima ::
The family, 1950
/ via
yama-bato / original source: artgraph.tokyo
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Leslie Jones ::
The man that squaled on Gerald Chapman and sent him to the gallows. His name is ‘Shean.’, ca. 1925 [Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.]. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
via ohwiewunderbar / original source: leslie.jones.photography
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Two members of the Bertram Mills Circus walk head-to-head at Hammersmith Broadway in London, 1953. / src: retro-vintage-photography
