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Columba Livia

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Salvador Dali

Posts tagged history:

lostsplendor:

New York World’s Fair Employee Snowball Fight, 1939 via The New York Public Library

lostsplendor:

Fresh Moves: January, 1921 (via)

lostsplendor:

From Central Park: New York City, February 1933 (via)

lostsplendor:

From Central Park: New York City, February 1933 (via)

(via lostsplendor)

holdthisphoto:

Duke, Joseph T. Pitt’s Dog

holdthisphoto:

Duke, Joseph T. Pitt’s Dog

silentcuriosity:

Untitled (Portrait of a Chinese Man). ca. 1851. Isaac W. Baker, photographer. Daguerrotype. Collection of Oakland Museum of California.

silentcuriosity:

Untitled (Portrait of a Chinese Man). ca. 1851. Isaac W. Baker, photographer. Daguerrotype. Collection of Oakland Museum of California.

(via americanisms-deactivated2012121)

lostsplendor:

Vesta Tilley, Vaudevillian Drag King (1864-1952) via The New York Public Library

lostsplendor:

San Francisco, 1906 (via)

lostsplendor:

San Francisco, 1906 (via)

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tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1880-1910, [tintype portrait of two western gentlemen playing chess, with a dog, more likely a taxidermied coyote or wolf, at their feet], Voss
via Jeffrey Kraus, Antique Photographs

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1880-1910, [tintype portrait of two western gentlemen playing chess, with a dog, more likely a taxidermied coyote or wolf, at their feet], Voss

via Jeffrey Kraus, Antique Photographs

lostsplendor:

Over Hammersmith Bridge, London c. 1888 (via)

lostsplendor:

Over Hammersmith Bridge, London c. 1888 (via)

(via lostsplendor)

lostsplendor:

Bicycle Built for Two, c. 1921 (via)

lostsplendor:

Bicycle Built for Two, c. 1921 (via)

(via lostsplendor)

lostsplendor:

Nikola Tesla, Innovation. date unknown

lostsplendor:

Nikola Tesla, Innovation. date unknown

(via lostsplendor)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870-80’s, [tintype portrait of a farmer or share cropper with scythe]
via Cowan’s Auctions

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870-80’s, [tintype portrait of a farmer or share cropper with scythe]

via Cowan’s Auctions

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