Nadar [pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon]
:: Mademoiselle Anaïs, mannequin de la maison Lanvin, 1889-1914. Glass negative. / src: RMN
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Nude study, early 1930s, by Nora Dumas.
Nora Dumas born Kelenföldi Telkes Nóra · Étude du nu |Nude Study, early 1930s. In ‘28 Etudes de Nus’, Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1936. | image source LiveAuctioneers. This photograph is credited in other sources as Ergy Landau’s and titled a nude study of Nora Dumas as here or simply credited as Ergy Landau’s as here. | image src LiveAuctioneers.
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Model and starlet
Lucile Jacques modeling a Swim–Easy swimsuit adorned with cartoon puppies and kittens, Los Angeles, CA, late 1920′s / via
Jules Toulot at his atelier with model (drawing on easel and painting above), probably 1880′s-1890′s / via
Rudolf Koppitz :: Bildhauer mit Aktmodell / Sculptor and Nude, 1920′s (?) Vintage silver print. / source: invaluable.com
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Tree aesthetic surgery, ca. 1890
Founded in 1880 in Kent, Ohio, by John Davey, Davey Tree Care Co. was a company that offered to the wealthy landowners in the area to look after their rare tree specimens.These photographs were taken in the 1890’s to show the techniques used to model the shape of a tree by splitting it and forcing each branch into a predefined position. / source: La Boite Verte and their photo mysteries
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Cecil Beaton :: Carmen Dell’Orefice reading at age 15, 1946 / via mudwerks
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