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Female nude by Julien Mandel

Julien Mandel :: Vintage French postcard. Stamped AN (Alfred Noyer studio) and nº265 on image. 1910s-1920s.

Vintage postcard stamped PC, Paris

Vintage French postcard. Stamped PC Paris on verso. 1910s-1920s.

Balloons participating in the USSR aeronautical tests, 1927

At the site of the Moscow gas plant in the Basmanny District. Moscow, Russia, 1927.
On October 16, seven balloons participating in the third all-Union aeronautical tests were launched at the Moscow gas plant in the presence of a mass of spectators. Author / Photographer: b
Source: Magazine “Spark”, No. 44 (240). October 30, 1927 (via http://www.pastvu.com)
Shooting direction: south

Balloon on barge, 1914-1918

A small steam boat pulls the barges over Lake Biel with the captive balloon inside: Balloon experimental company, 1914-1918
Original: Glass plate negative; silverbromide.
Maker / photographer: Santschi
Original caption: A small steam boat pulls the barges over Lake Biel with the captive balloon inside: Balloon experimental company, 1914-1918
Original: Glass plate negative.
Maker / photographer: Santschi

Balloon being carried on barge during World War I

With the outbreak of the first world war Switzerland was faced with confusing events – and therefore used captive balloons for clarification. Here on Lake Biel. Image: Swiss Photo Foundation
From: Switzerland and the great war “14/18 – Switzerland and the Great War” in the Zurich State Museum. | src Tages Anzeiger: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/Zerruettung-des-verschonten-Landes-/story/17621214

Female nude smoking, 1920s

Julien Mandel :: Unknown title [woman smoking naked], ca. 1920s
Julien Mandel :: Unknown title [woman smoking naked], ca. 1920s

Female nude by Alfred Noyer

Alfred Noyer :: Unknown title, female nude, view from behind. Stamped AN on verso.

French vintage postcard

Vintage French postcard. Unknown photographer. Stamped PC Paris on verso. Sometimes credited as Julien Mandel’s.

Female nude by Thomas Eakins, 1889

Thomas Eakins :: [Female Nude from the Back]. Platinum print, ca. 1889 | src The Met

This small platinum study shows a rare glimpse of Thomas Eakins’ teaching studio. Posed on a low platform between Eakins, his camera, and a student sketching in the shadows, a nude model rests comfortably, the focus of all attention. In the 1880s and 1890s, Eakins integrated photography into his teaching of art, made photographic studies for his paintings, and also photographs intended as independent works of art. (Quoted from source) The Met