Photo reblogged from Reality Asylum with 172 notes
Mother’s Day Nun
Anonymous - c1870s spirit photograph of two ghostly figures, one of which is a young nun.
… via perfect find (ebay)
Photoset with 17 notes
Engravings of dik-dik, reedbuck and walia ibex from Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig by Eduard Rüppell, 1835-1840
From the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Photo reblogged from the fascination of the absence of time with 309 notes
The supposed materialisation of a spirit-girl called Katie King, late 1850s {x}
Source: funeral-wreaths
Photo reblogged from Sutured Infection with 311 notes
Deformity apparatus: Chas. F. Stillman’s long bow-leg braces. 1893 medical supply catalogue.
Photo reblogged from Invisible Stories with 582 notes
Sometimes it seems that all of our inventions are designed to multiply the world.
Image: Reflection in two parallel plane mirrors: multiple images of an object placed between them. From El mundo físico, by A. Guillemin (1882) (via mondonoir)
Source: mondonoir
Photo reblogged from OBI Scrapbook Blog with 154 notes
Augusta turned her back to the judge, in order that he might examine what was written on it.
From Mr. Meeson’s will, by Henry Rider Haggard, London, 1888.
(Source: archive.org)
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Entführung, plate 9 of the Ein Handschuh (“A Glove”) series by Max Klinger, 1881
Via Wurzeltod
Photo reblogged from OBI Scrapbook Blog with 552 notes
Topaze, portrait painter.
J-J. Grandville, from Vie privée et publique des animaux (Public and Private Life of Animals), under the direction of P. J. Stahl, Paris, 1867.
(Source: archive.org)
Photo reblogged from VACUII'S SCRAPBOOK with 604 notes
Lewis Carroll, Rev. Thomas Childe Barker and his daughter, May 1864
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A photograph of Augustine Gleizes from Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt
Through hypnosis, Jean-Martin Charcot sparked off different states in his patients like catalepsy, lethargy or somnambulism, up to cause artificial spasms by rubbing flexors. This photography shows his patient, Augustine, in a state of lethargy. The back muscles and those of the thighs and legs are contracted by friction; the rigid body placed between two chairs was holding the pose for several minutes.
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