1901: A Space Odyssey

Hello, my name is Scott. I’m a 23 year old history student who lives in New Zealand.

[engineeringhistory]

Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments while studying science, circa 1890s.

[catchomps]

[sad-plath]

[arinewman7]

La Conversazione (The Conversation) by Federico Zandomeneghi oil on canvas 1895

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

He locked himself in a tower, read ancient authors, fed birds on the terrace. / For only in this way could he forget about / having to know himself.

Czesław Miłosz, from Bells in Winter: Poems; “Portrait” (via la-femme-terrible)

[snowyoghurt]

Něco z Alenky/ Jan Svankmajer/ 1988

[est-nord]

[gerda-kay]

source

[vintage-sweden]

Students at a home economics vocational school, 1904, Sweden.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Two women in a railroad car, 1905.

[estrangera]

[1bohemian]

Leonid Sobinov as Lensky in the opera Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Theater, Russia — January 13th,1900

[theladyintweed]

Photo by me 

[nordicsublime]

Summer garden via:  alicesoesser.blogspot.dk

[brutalgeneration]

A Taste of the Cotswolds by Sandra Leidholdt on Flickr.

[marienikolaevna]

Maria Feodorovna and her sister, Alexandra

[weirdvintage]

Late Victorian mountaineers, including a lady fully dressed and corseted, cross a crevasse in the Alps, 1900 (from Getty Images’ book “Decades of the 20th Century—1900s” by Nick Yapp, scanned by WeirdVintage)

[vestatilleys]

Grace Lane, c.1900′s.