Monument a Colom by Antoni Esplugas Puig, ca. 1890

Antoni Esplugas Puig :: Sense títol [Monument a Colom / Columbus Monument], Barcelona, ca. 1890. | src fotografia catalunya

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Naked woman coming out of a frame by Antoni Esplugas Puig, 1890s

Antoni Esplugas Puig :: Nu femení. Noia sortint d’un marc, 1890-1900. | src fotografia catalunya

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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

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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

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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 :: 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]

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
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[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.

Zitkala-Sa, ca. 1898

Gertrude Käsebier :: Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Platinum print. | src National Museum of American History — **Gertrude Käsebier ::** Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Platinum print. | src National Museum of American History

**Gertrude Stanton Käsebier ::** Zitkala Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, 1898, platinum print

In addition to photographing the Sioux performers sent by Buffalo Bill Cody to her studio, Käsebier was able to arrange a portrait session with Zitkala Sa, “Red Bird,” also known as Gertrude Simmons (1876-1938), a Yankton Sioux woman of Native American and white ancestry. She was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, like many of the Sioux traveling with the Wild West show. She was well educated at reservation schools, the Carlisle Indian School, Earlham College in Indiana, and the Boston Conservatory of Music. Zitkala Sa became an accomplished author, musician, composer, and dedicated worker for the reform of United States Indian policies.

Käsebier photographed Zitkala Sa in tribal dress and western clothing, clearly identifying the two worlds in which this woman lived and worked. In many of the images, Zitkala Sa holds her violin or a book, further indicating her interests. Käsebier experimented with backdrops, including a Victorian floral print, and photographic printing. She used the painterly gum-bichromate process for several of these images, adding increased texture and softer tones to the photographs. (quoted from NMAH)

Gertrude Käsebier :: Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Platinum print. — **Gertrude Käsebier ::** Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Platinum print. | src National Museum of American History

Gertrude Käsebier :: Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Platinum print. | src NMAH — **Gertrude Käsebier ::** Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Platinum print. | src NMAH

**Gertrude Käsebier ::** Zitkala Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898 | src NMAH

Gertrude Käsebier :: Zitkala-Sa (with violin), Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Platinum print. — **Gertrude Käsebier ::** Zitkala-Sa (with violin), Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Platinum print. | src NMAH

Gertrude Käsebier :: Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Gum bichromate print. | src NMAH — **Gertrude Käsebier ::** Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898. Gum bichromate print. | src NMAH

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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