
Vintage postcard, 1908

images that haunt us



Edward Steichen :: On the House-Boat. ‘The Log Cabin,’ from Camera Work, Nº 22, 1908. The original image is a four-color half-tone reproduction. / src Toledo Museum of Art via NY Times blog
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Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Mrs. Brown Potter, from Camera Work Number 24. Photogravure, circa 1908. / src Swann Galleries, NY.
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Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Still Life. Published in Camera Work, Nº 24, 1908. / src Toledo Museum of Art via NY Times blog
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Clarence Hudson White :: Drops of rain (dew drops), ca. 1902 | A
young boy, possibly Maynard White, looking at a large glass ball, with
raindrops on a screen in the background. Published in Camera Work (1908). / src: Library of Congress
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Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”

Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: A character from Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”

Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Mytyl (Alisa Coonen) and Tyltyl (Sofya Khalyutina), in ‘The Blue Bird’. Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Blue Bird ’ at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908 / src: NYPL and Wikimedia
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”

Edmund Osterloff :: ‘Miss Curiosity’ (Osterloff’s daughter Sophie Osterloff, married Lazutina), Tbilisi, Russia, ca.1908 / source: Jan
Weijers Servatius