Cabinet cards

Oscar Wilde

e-l-i-s-e: Cabinet cards/Cabinet de photographes : The Notman Studio - Newsboy - Falk - Gilbert & Bacon - Thiele's - Napoleon Sarony

Cabinet card

45 Adapters

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Glen Mullaly's photostream

via Drive-by Blogging

origin unknown

via victrola favorites

stray bullets

Mayfair, and the Deaths of Harry Nilsson, Mama Cass and Keith Moon
How to Embalm a Body (via)
Middle Eastern Contemporary Artists Booming
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Systems (via)
The Felt Toothbrush
Recommended piano books
Iain Banks talks to Writing Magazine

viddy:
This American Life - Judgement to the Wife (funny)
Zumba Cinco - Moça do Biquini Azul
São Paulo in 1943
Aldous Huxley's Deathbed (as related by his wife) (via)

This Old House: 1918

Shorpy:

Washington, D.C., circa 1918. "Old house, Third Street N.E. Built by Thomas Taylor in 1876." Thought I'd better post this before any more chunks of the glass negative (or house) fall off. National Photo Co. glass negative.

photo booth photos (1930s)

from the found-photo archive of Juliana Peloso

also:

Four for a Quarter Photographer Nakki Goranin shows how the once ubiquitous photobooth captured the many faces of 20th-century America (via)

Photobooth.net - Photobooth Locations (via)

Pablum

image from The American Package Museum

Pablum is a processed cereal for infants originally marketed by the Mead Johnson Company in 1931. The trademarked name is a contracted form of the Latin word pabulum, meaning "foodstuff". The name is also used metaphorically, especially in literary criticism, to refer to something bland, unappetizing, or with little content value.

Circassian Beauties

Sideshow World:

Moss-Haired Girl — A "made" human oddity from the 19th century, also known as a "Circassian girl" (the Circassians are a Caucasian people living in the Caucasus but not speaking an Indo-European language). A white woman would stiffen and bush her hair, much in the style of the 'Afro' hairdo. The pitch which usually accompanied the act involved kidnapping by 'Arabs' and being forced into harem life, followed by a harrowing escape culminating in refuge there in the show.

a tip of the hat to Could it be Madness-this?

Vintage Poison Labels

Vintage Poison Labels

via mundos

Circus dude with magnificent fro

from The Circus, 1870-1950

leaf through the book here

thanks to Bloody Marie for hooking this up

first seen on vintagephoto

Links

(found postcard, 1910)

thanks Jules!

Saturday morning cute-attack

This photograph was taken in 1911 in Alaska. Is shows a man feeding a small bear cub.

Old Picture of the Day: Bear Cub

A Man of Leisure

NYPLDigitalGallery

via Fred's Tumblr

All I Want From You Is Love

image origin unknown

via vintagephoto

Bizarre Lunch Dates in History

Paul Gauguin, Alfons Mucha, Luděk Marold, Annah la Javanaise, Paris, 1896.

Details unknown. Well, to me anyway. I couldn't find anything on this photo.

via vintagephoto

Victorian Trade Cards

Victorian Trade Cards Digital Collection:

This digital collection was created using a scrapbook of Victorian-era advertising cards from the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections department. Products being advertised include clocks, jewelry, food, and medicine. The advertisement images are often whimsical and bear little relation to the company or product being advertised. (Note: Viewers should be warned that some of the text and images from this collection are considered racially offensive by today's standards.)

Some, like the one above, are just straight-up weird.

via hanuman

Old Bookman

Paris, circa 1920

photograph of a man flying, ca. 1910

If you zoom in on it, the image of the guy in the air looks drawn and superimposed. Even so, I found this photo to be eerily cool.

from airform archives, who also has a fascinating photostream.

Cole Porter

Cole Porter in his Beverly Hills home, 1954
photo: Bob Willoughby

via vintagephoto

Listen to the Music

An organ grinder on the streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910

from EyeWitness to History.com