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Balloon being carried on barge during World War I

With the outbreak of the first world war Switzerland was faced with confusing events – and therefore used captive balloons for clarification. Here on Lake Biel. Image: Swiss Photo Foundation
From: Switzerland and the great war “14/18 – Switzerland and the Great War” in the Zurich State Museum. | src Tages Anzeiger: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/Zerruettung-des-verschonten-Landes-/story/17621214

French vintage postcard

Vintage French postcard. Unknown photographer. Stamped PC Paris on verso. Sometimes credited as Julien Mandel’s.

Female nude by Thomas Eakins, 1889

Thomas Eakins :: [Female Nude from the Back]. Platinum print, ca. 1889 | src The Met

This small platinum study shows a rare glimpse of Thomas Eakins’ teaching studio. Posed on a low platform between Eakins, his camera, and a student sketching in the shadows, a nude model rests comfortably, the focus of all attention. In the 1880s and 1890s, Eakins integrated photography into his teaching of art, made photographic studies for his paintings, and also photographs intended as independent works of art. (Quoted from source) The Met

Nude study, ca. 1930

Anonyme Etude de nu, vers 1930 | Nude study by anonymous photographer, ca. 1930 | src yann le mouel

Vintage postcard, 1908

J. Thomas :: Postcard with a photograph of a man and a woman kissing with a caption reading: “One half my life I’d gladly miss, If I could have just one like this” and the title “Spooners Delight.” 1908. | src Texas History