
Anonymous photographer. Unknown location, ca. 1880. Albumen print. | source Galerie Lumière des Roses via hauntedbystorytelling.tumblr.com
images that haunt us


Bloom ::
Actress, dancer, singer and spy
Louise Browne, cream-toned glossy bromide print, Chicago, circa 1923. | src NPG

Paul Himmel :: Untitled (dance photography), ca. 1950. | src Kehrer Verlag
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“Mack Sennett Girl,” circa 1919. Actress Marvel Rea, one of film producer Mack Sennett’s well-rounded “bathing girls”, in somewhat mouldy National Photo glass negative. From a series of pictures using cars and tires as props. 1 src and hi-res Shorpy
Probably edited from this photograph. [zoom in detail of hands’ retouching]

“Mack Sennett girls in costume”, circa 1919. Sennett, an early producer of silent films, was known as the King of Comedy for his slapstick reels. National Photo Company Collection. | src and hi-res Shorpy



Arthur Tress :: Girl and Painted Moon, NY, 1969 | Girl in Painted Spotlight, NYC, 1968
| souces inneroptics, Joseph Bellows Gallery, Clampart and
Pratt Institute Libraries
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