See also film blog for poncy celebration of nuns without clothes.

28th July 2010

Photo with 266 notes

flngs:

dusdin:

lapuravidagallery:

 

“Super surreal on-the-street style photos of costumed revelers at the 1903 New Orleans Carnival. The photographs were taken by a group of tourists from Illinois. They made a scrapbook of their trip, see it here. via Louisiana Digital Library”

via Nothing Is New

flngs:

dusdin:

lapuravidagallery:

“Super surreal on-the-street style photos of costumed revelers at the 1903 New Orleans Carnival. The photographs were taken by a group of tourists from Illinois. They made a scrapbook of their trip, see it here. via Louisiana Digital Library

via Nothing Is New

Tagged: photographysurrealcostumenew orleanscarnival1900searly 20th century

Source: photographsonthebrain

4th May 2010

Photo reblogged from ||||| with 172 notes

defrag:

Henry C. Lavery’s electric automatic phrenometer, 1907

defrag:

Henry C. Lavery’s electric automatic phrenometer, 1907

Tagged: henry c. laveryprenometerinventions1900searly 20th century

7th April 2010

Photo reblogged from My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning with 69 notes

my-ear-trumpet:

vintageillustration:

lafronteradelasestrellas:

HENRY CLIVE 1919

my-ear-trumpet:

vintageillustration:

lafronteradelasestrellas:

HENRY CLIVE 1919

Tagged: ziegfeld folliesillustration1910searly 20th centuryhenry clive

Source: elelixirdelavida

31st March 2010

Photo reblogged from (OvO) with 64 notes

liquidnight:

William C. Klatt, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905,  depicted as a physician operating on a disembodied head. Darkroom  manipulation was used to create the illusion of the separation of the  patient’s head from his body.
[via Wisconsin Historical Images]

liquidnight:

William C. Klatt, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a physician operating on a disembodied head. Darkroom manipulation was used to create the illusion of the separation of the patient’s head from his body.

[via Wisconsin Historical Images]

Tagged: photographysepia1900searly 20th centurydisembodied headillusionphotographywilliam c. klatt

20th March 2010

Photo reblogged from the fascination of the absence of time with 46 notes

cendrars:

darksilenceinsuburbia:

sealmaiden:

Carl Larsson
Karin och Kersti 1904
Etching

cendrars:

darksilenceinsuburbia:

sealmaiden:

Carl Larsson

Karin och Kersti 1904

Etching

Tagged: carl larssonetchingillustration1900searly 20th century

Source: originalprints.com

17th March 2010

Photo reblogged from My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning with 283 notes

my-ear-trumpet:

herarchaicsmile:

Art Nouveau interior designed by Alphonse Mucha (1900).

my-ear-trumpet:

herarchaicsmile:

Art Nouveau interior designed by Alphonse Mucha (1900).

Tagged: interiorsart nouveaualphonse mucha1900searly 20th century

Source: herarchaicsmile

9th March 2010

Photo reblogged from bits&bites with 92 notes

billyjane:

Anna Belle Grey [trick photograph,c.1901]
from The Library of Congress
via bobster

billyjane:

Anna Belle Grey [trick photograph,c.1901]

from The Library of Congress

via bobster

Tagged: anna belle grey1900searly 20th centuryb+wphotographytrick photographdoubles

9th March 2010

Photo reblogged from The 50 Watts tumblr with 1,567 notes

ajourneyroundmyskull:

sealmaiden:
Eugene Grasset 1841-1917, Three Women with three Wolves 1900

ajourneyroundmyskull:

sealmaiden:

Eugene Grasset 1841-1917, Three Women with three Wolves 1900

Tagged: eugene grasset1900searly 20th centuryillustrationwomenwoodswolves

Source: sealmaiden