This photograph shows the buildings along Gatehead’s riverside by the High Level Bridge, 1879. The River Tyne in the foreground is at low tide with boats on the shore. | src Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection
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A London Transport inspector holding a flare leads a number 25 bus out of the terminus at Aldgate East as dense fog blanketed London, causing widespread traffic chaos, Dec. 1952
F. Holland Day :: Ebony and Ivory, ca. 1897. Platinum print.
| src The Metropolitan Museum of Arts
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Fred Holland Day :: ‘The (Last) Seven Words’, 1898. (Plate 6 of 7. “Into thy hands I commend my spirit.”) Platinum print. | src Met Museum
From 1895 to 1898 Day undertook a project that was without precedent: an extended series showing scenes of the life of Christ, from the Annunciation to the Resurrection, in which he played the title role.
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Ewald Hoinkis :: unknown title, 1932 | more [+] by this photographer
[Young Woman, Sicily, Italy] by Wilhelm von Gloeden, The Met’s Photos
Gift of Milton Radutzky, 1983
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
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