C. L. Wasson :: The Cliff House and Seal Rocks, the pride of San Francisco, from Sutro Heights, CA, 1906 / src: cliffHouseproject
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Tag: 1900s
Beatrice Baxter by Käsebier
A frequent model for Käsebier and F. Holland Day, Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, who posed here, made illustrations for children’s books and the Boston Herald.
‘A life saver on the lookout.’ Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1905. Dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. / source: Juniper Gallery
“Boy on bicycle ca. 1895-1916” is the improvised title of this dry plate from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C., whose legacy is a collection of some 30,000 glass negatives recently digitized and catalogued by the Library of Congress
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“In the surf at Asbury Park.” Having a wonderful time; wish we were still here.
The Jersey Shore, circa 1905. Dry plate glass negative
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“The beach at Old Orchard, Maine – Ocean Pier and Hotel Velvet.” Which, following the curiously inevitable destiny of beach resorts surrounded by ashtray-grade sand and literal oceans of water, “burned like oil” in the Great Fire of 1907. Glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.
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The little butterfly, 1901
![Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. (1862-1932) :: The little butterfly , 1901. [detail] | src Library of Congress](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52165435770_f327850bdc_b.jpg)
![Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. (1862-1932) :: The little butterfly [Evelyn Nesbit in Stanford White's Japanese kimono posing sleeping on a polar bear rug at Campbell Art Studio in New York City], 1901. | src Library of Congress](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52164949098_35be39730e_o.png)
Girl checking her hairdo or perhaps her lace. no date on source. / src: ed.surlabanquise
“Gratiot Light, Port Huron, Michigan.” A great lighthouse on a Great Lake. Glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company, ca, 1901 / source and hi-res: Shorpy
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