Willard Drake Johnson :: High Plains Buffalo Wallow, shallow depression in level surface of country underlain by the Oglalla formation, 1897. From US Geological Survey, 1920 (USGS) / src: Tom Cark blog
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Louis Paulhan flying near a gas-filled balloon in his Henry Farman biplane, during his record-breaking flight (4600 ft.) at Dominguez Field, January 12, 1910. Paulhan is sitting at the center of the front wings in this primitive biplane. His biplane passes a nearby balloon with one person piloting it. The advertisement painted on the balloon reads: “All in the Examiner”.
Julia Margaret Cameron :: Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1867 / src: Lensculture
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Mary Dillwyn :: The Picnic Party (Oystermouth Castle), 1854 / src: Lensculture
“Tomy and Joch (dog), 6 Portland Terrace, January, 1926″ (written in pencil on verso) / source: eBay
Alice Austen (1866-1952) :: Trude and I masked, short skirts, 1891. © Courtesy of Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island, NYC
/ source: Lensculture
Poetess Bella Akhmadulina, Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina, First Class Student, 1944 (she was born in 1937, so the date is right, but the picture looks like 1910′s) / sources: ekogradmoscow.ru and chelib.ru
Antique and original
gelatin silver photograph of stage and silent screen vamp Valeska Suratt notated on the verso: Huntington Beach –
August 1915 . Suratt was one of the first women in show business to
control every aspect of her visual presentation and representation and
she built her brand around being a vampy sexual provocateur. A rare
images of Suratt which comes from her personal scrapbooks. / src: eBay
Daniel Nyblin ::
Daniel Nyblin (on the left) playing chess with his cousin, Helsinki, 1880-1885 / source: Museoviraston Kuvakokoelmat
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