Category: 1890s

Girl at the Cliff House · postcard

Detail from a postcard featuring a girl at the beach with the Victorian Cliff House (San Francisco) between 1896-1907
Postcard featuring a girl at the beach with the Victorian Cliff House (San Francisco) before the fire of 1907 | src cliff-house-project
Victorian Cliff House, San Francisco, vintage postcard. Between 1896- Sept. 1907 | src cliff-house-project

The Ring Toss, 1899

Clarence Hudson White :: The Ring Toss, Newark, Ohio, 1899. Photograph shows three little girls playing ring toss game. [digital file from color film copy transparency] | src Library of Congress
Clarence Hudson White :: The Ring Toss, Newark, Ohio, 1899. Photograph shows three girls playing ring toss game. [digital file from original photograph] | src Library of Congress
Clarence Hudson White :: The Ring Toss, Newark, Ohio, 1899. Photograph shows three girls playing ring toss game. [digital file from original photograph – full size original scan] | src Library of Congress

Abend in der Lagune

Heinrich Kühn :: Abend in der Lagune | Evening In The Lagoon, 1895. Photogravure. | src photoseed
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Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, 1891

Napoleon Sarony :: French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, New York, 1891. Cabinet card. | src Harvard Library
Napoleon Sarony :: French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, New York, 1891. Cabinet card. | src Harvard Library

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Two lady portraits by Käsebier

Gertrude Käsebier · Untitled (Portrait of a woman with cherry blossoms), ca. 1905. Platinum print. | src Christie's
Gertrude Käsebier :: Untitled (Portrait of a woman with cherry blossoms), ca. 1905. Platinum print. | src Christie’s
Gertrude Käsebier - Untitled (Portrait of a woman with cherry blossoms), ca. 1905. Platinum print. | src Christie's
Gertrude Käsebier :: Untitled (Portrait of a woman with cherry blossoms), ca. 1905. Platinum print. | src Christie’s
Gertrude Käsebier :: Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1898. Platinum print. The image was shown at The NY Photography Virtual Fair, sponsored by The Daguerreian Society | src Lunn Ltd. [one of the hosted Dealers]
Gertrude Käsebier :: Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1898. Platinum print. The image was shown at The NY Photography Virtual Fair, sponsored by The Daguerreian Society | src Lunn Ltd. [one of the hosted Dealers]
Gertrude Käsebier :: Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1898. Platinum print. The image was shown at The NY Photography Virtual Fair, sponsored by The Daguerreian Society [full size]
Gertrude Käsebier :: Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1898. Platinum print. The image was shown at The NY Photography Virtual Fair, sponsored by The Daguerreian Society [full size]

Johnston as New Woman · 1896

Frances Benjamin Johnston ~ Self-portrait in the studio as a New Woman, 1896 (detail)

In this self-portrait the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston poses as an independent ‘new woman.’ On the mantelpiece are six portraits she took of men (from left to right): poet Bliss Carman; A. N. Brown, likely the librarian at the U.S. Naval Academy; Henry Guston Rogers, likely the inventor and playwright Henry Gustave Rogers; architect James Rush Marshall; Smithsonian librarian Frank Phister; and L. M. McCormick, a photographer and member of the Capital Camera Club. [quoted from Library of Congress] permalink

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, seated in front of fireplace, facing left, holding cigarette in one hand and a beer stein in the other, in her Washington DC studio], 1896

Johnston crossdressing ca. 1890

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false moustache, posed with bicycle, facing left]; 1890-1900
src Library of Congress
[Frances Benjamin Johnston (right), full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false moustache, posed with two unidentified women, one of whom is also dressed as a man]; 1880-1900 | src Library of Congress

According to Shorpy ─in this website the photograph is titled “Reverso”─ Frances Benjamin Johnston is posing here with two similarly cross-dressing friends. The “lady” is a gent identified in a few other FBJ photos as the illustrator Mills Thompson.