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Rita Martin :: Silent film actress Gina Palerme portrait, mid 1910′s. Published by J. Beagles & Co. Bromide postcard print. / src: National Portrait Gallery


Burrell (357 Westminster St., Providence, RI.) :: Balloon photograph of a wedding, 1888, 27 September (after), Cabinet card, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. / via luminous-lint

Benjamin J. Falk :: Mrs Charles Watson, 1884 (Cabinet card) / source: luminous-lint.

Earle (Detroit) :: John M. Stout – Champion Fancy Star Bicycle Rider of the World, n.d. / Cabinet card / src: luminous-lint.

Lawson & Ferguson (Columbus, Ind) :: Refugio Meza, “Contorcionista Espanola,” holding flags in a terrific backward position atop three bottles.
n.d. Cabinet card. / src: luminous-lint.com

Cabinet Card of an unidentified contortionist / performer. No photographer credit. / source: atypical art on Flickr

Dora Kallmus (Madame D’Ora) :: La Argentina (Antonia Mercé y Luque), ca. 1925 / Ross Verlag Cabinet Card
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Daniel Nyblin ::
Daniel Nyblin (on the left) playing chess with his cousin, Helsinki, 1880-1885 / source: Museoviraston Kuvakokoelmat
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