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Crush, unknown date

Crush. | src Snapshot Mafia (Philippe Jusforgues)

Stepping in the sea, 1920s-1930s

«This is my favorite candid. 1920s-1930s, found it in a little bin of photos. I love the joyous spontaneity of the women, the shedding of clothing and stepping into the endless sea.» | src Snapshot Mafia (BanAnna Martel)

Moderne Welt · Osterhasen · 1926

Flora Pries trägt ein lustiges Kostüm verbrämt mit Kaninchenfell, und führt auf einer kalifornischen Kaninchenfarm ihre beiden Liebrlinge spazieren <Polyphot> Moderne Welt; Jahrgang 8, Heft 21, 1926 | src ÖNB
Flora Pries wears a funny costume trimmed with rabbit fur and takes her two darlings for a walk on a California rabbit farm <Polyphot> Published in Moderne Welt (1926) | src ÖNB

vintage smokers in 1910s

Portrait de femme fumant une cigarette, France, vers 1910. | Portrait of a woman smoking a cigarette, France, ca. 1910 | src galerie lumière des roses ~ Les beaux chapeaux
English actress Gertie Millar, ca. 1906. (Photo by Paul Popper / Popperfoto) | src getty images

Tandil moving rock

THE WORLDS LARGEST ROCKING STONE, TANDIL, ARGENTINA

This immense stone is so evenly poised that the wind or the slightest touch of the hand set it in motion, but the storms of the centuries have failed to dislodge it.

CHAPTER IV. THE PRAIRIE AND ITS INHABITANTS

The Pampas, or prairie lauds of the Argentine, stretch to the south and west of Buenos Ayres,and cover some 800,000 square miles. On this vast level plain, watered by sluggish streams or shallow lakes, boundless as the ocean, seemingly limitless in extent, there is an exhilarating air and a rich herbage on which browse countless herds of cattle, horses, and flocks of sheep. The grass grows tall, and miles upon miles of rich scarlet, white, or yellow flowers mingle with or overtop it. Beds of thistles, in which the cattle completely hide themselves, stretch away for leagues and leagues, and present an almost unbroken sheet of purple flowers. So vast are these thistle-beds that a days ride through them only leaves the traveller with the same purple forest stretching away to the horizon. (…)

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George Whitfield Ray : Through five republics on horseback; being an account of many wanderings in South America. Sixteenth edition, 1920. Hosted at internet archive

George Whitfield Ray : Through five republics on horseback; being an account of many wanderings in South America. Thirteenth edition, 1915. Hosted at internet archive

The immense boulder was near the city of Tandil. The city’s name “Tan / dil” comes from the Mapuche words tan (“falling”), and lil (“rock”). It is probably a reference to the Piedra Movediza (“Moving Stone”), a large boulder which stood seemingly miraculously balanced on the edge of a rocky foothill. The Moving Stone toppled on February 29th, 1912, and split into two main pieces at the bottom of the hill.

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Angie Means stands on lilypad

woman standing on giant lilypad, 1895
Angie Means, stands on a giant Amazonian water lily pad, Victoria regia, in the Victoria Room at Phipps Conservatory, 1895
Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar, 1895 | src USC

Phipps Conservatory was presented as a gift to the City of Pittsburgh from philanthropist Henry W. Phipps, who wished to “erect something that [would] prove a source of instruction as well as pleasure to the people.” In a letter to City of Pittsburgh Mayor H.I. Gourley in November 1891, Phipps expressed his intentions to add this new conservatory as a complement to an already existing “Phipps Conservatory” built in 1887 in Allegheny, now known as the North Side. Henry Phipps stipulated that both conservatories operate on Sundays in order to allow the working people to visit on their day of rest.

On Dec. 7, 1893, Phipps Conservatory opened to the public. It showcased over 6,000 exotic plants originating from the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago — cacti, trees, ferns and more made the journey by train and horse-drawn cart to Pittsburgh and the nation’s newest and largest conservatory.

In 1895 Phipps Conservatory hosted the 26th Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar, during which this iconic image was captured. In the photo, a woman, Angie Means, stands on a giant Amazonian water lily pad, or Victoria regia, in the Victoria Room.

In October 1898, the 27th Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar was held in Pittsburgh. Horticulture staff decorated the Conservatory with flowerbeds designed as Masonic emblems for the Conclave’s visit on Oct. 13th.

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A young woman, stands on a giant Amazonian water lily pad, Victoria regia, in the Victoria Room at Phipps Conservatory, 1895
Angie Means, stands on a giant Amazonian water lily pad, or Victoria regia, in the Victoria Room at Phipps Conservatory in 1895