
Gianni Berengo Gardin :: Varese, 1987
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images that haunt us

Dummies outside the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, 1932.
A puzzled milkman walking past dressmaking dummies, taken by Tomlin for the Daily Herald newspaper on 11 May, 1932. The dummies have been unloaded onto the street outside the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in preparation for an exhibition of nineteenth century women’s clothing. | src Daily Herald Archive via Getty Images

David Moore ::
Diving suits, Menorca, Spain, 1954 / source: State Library of New South Wales
‘[Moore] was on assignment to cover the life and landscape of this island. The diving suits were used by local fishermen
working from boats that crowded the harbour. Moore
photographed the drying suits because they looked ridiculous, reminding
him of two boys practicing handstands or marine creatures.’ (quoted from
source)
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William Hall Raine ::
Just a man on his bicycle, 1949. Source and hi-res : Museum of New Zealand / via back-then

Dancer, ca. 1920. Unknown photographer. / src: foundphotographs.com

Willy Römer :: Weihnachtsmann auf dem Motorrad / Santa Claus on a Motorbike, 1920’s / source: smb.museum

Goldie Williams, also known as Meg Murphy, defiantly crossed her arms for her Omaha Police Court mug shot. Arrested for vagrancy on Jan. 29, 1898. / src: cvltnation.com

Amphicars. Two amphibian cars participate in the Water Regatta on the Hudson River.
Uncredited photogrpaher (UPI). 16 August, 1965. / src: American Journal


All images retrieved from: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice (New York, 1902) by S. H. (Samuel Howard) Monell
Topics: Vibration, X-rays, Diagnosis, Radioscopic, Thermotherapy, Electrotherapeutics, X-Ray Therapy, Vibration, Diagnosis
source internet archive (Harvard Medical Library)




Burrell (357 Westminster St., Providence, RI.) :: Balloon photograph of a wedding, 1888, 27 September (after), Cabinet card, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. / via luminous-lint