Columba Livia

January 1, 2013 with 81 notes

tags: Vintage. Black and white. Photography. Art. Portrait. Robert Demachy. 1890s. 19th century. Photogravure. Profile. Woman. Female. Figure. Pictorialism. Dreamy. Pictorialist. Vision. Hair. Flower. Headdress. Headpiece. Bare. Shoulder. Feminine. Beauty.

liquidnight:

Robert Demachy

Profile

Photogravure, 1896

[From the National Media Museum Collection]

December 18, 2012 with 178 notes

tags: vintage. giveaway. book. gouache. literature. photography. vintage photography. free stuff. edwardian. 1920s. 1940s. 1950s. 1960s. 1966. poe. edgar allen poe. poetry. dandy.

thisisntvictorian:

greypoppies:

greypoppies Christmas giveaway!

ONLY REBLOG ONCE. Seriously. Likes count. If you do both you get 2 entries. I’ll use a random number generator but I will check to make sure you haven’t reblogged 10 times.

There will be 4 winners. One gets the book, and 3 others get two photos that I’ll pick out. (If you REALLY want a set of photos, though, reblog with which ones you want and if you get picked I’ll see what I can do.)

Giveaway ends December 24th, or Christmas Eve. I’ll ship ‘em out shortly after Christmas.

I’ll send the photos anywhere but the book’s gotta go to the US.

I don’t really care if you’re following me. I mean, it would be polite of you to look at my blog but it’s not a big deal.

Speaking of the book, here’s an album of some of the pages. It’s really a gorgeous book. Copyrighted 1966 and it has the most amazing old book smell.

Hey, followers, I know I haven’t been posting much but I think you’ll appreciate this giveaway I’m running over at my main.

December 18, 2012 with 541 notes

tags: new york city. new york. vintage. history. 1930s. snow. winter.

lostsplendor:

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

December 2, 2012 with 432 notes

tags: tortoise. turtle. hairy water tortoise. animal. zoology. vintage. vintage illustration.

compendium-of-beasts:

The hairy water tortoise. (1878)

via NYPL

(via scientificillustration)

November 25, 2012 with 18 notes

tags: post mortem. vintage. dead. black and white.

(Source: pure-as-the-lilies)

November 25, 2012 with 98 notes

tags: vintage. history. 1920s.

lostsplendor:

Fresh Moves: January, 1921 (via)

November 16, 2012 with 632 notes

tags: winter. snow. central park. new york city. manhattan. nyc. history. 1930s. vintage. landscape. black and white. architecture.

lostsplendor:

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

(via lostsplendor)

October 23, 2012 with 19 notes

tags: dog. animals. vintage. daguerreotype. Victorian. history. 1850s.

holdthisphoto:

Duke, Joseph T. Pitt’s Dog

September 30, 2012 with 7 notes

tags: daguerreotype. Portrait. Chinese. China. photography. California. Oakland. vintage. history.

silentcuriosity:

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

(via americanisms-deactivated2012121)

September 25, 2012 with 1,263 notes

tags: 1900s. drag king. history. lgbtq. menswear. vesta tilley. victorian. vintage. queer.

lostsplendor:

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

September 24, 2012 with 109 notes

tags: san francisco. landscape. black and white. california. vintage. 1900s. history.

lostsplendor:

San Francisco, 1906 (via)

(via lostsplendor)

September 24, 2012 with 90 notes

tags: tintype. vintage. history. portrait. taxidermy. pets. chess. game. sport. beard. facial hair.

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

September 22, 2012 with 114 notes