a glimpse back in time

Photography from the 1850s to the 1950s.

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Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay at Vassar College, 1914.  Photo by Arnold Genthe.

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1914

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Early construction on Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

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Now that’s a neat photo! Very early on in the construction sequence.

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Germaine Krull

Painter in Rue St Julien-le-Pauvre, Paris, 1928

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the invisible dog

a man walking an invisible dog in the street while reading the newspaper, france, 1900-1909. © keystone-france/ gamma-keystone/ getty images.

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Museum staff assemble a Diplodocus forelimb for exhibition, 1916 (American Museum of Natural History) 

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Woman training for a Republican militia during the Spanish Civil War

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St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow - 1882.

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Theodore Roosevelt, ca. 1903.

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Place du Carrousel, 1908.

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Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, 1940.

By Jack Delano

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Hand-colored photo of a hangyoku, 1905, Japan.  Image via Blue Ruin 1 of Flickr

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The future King George VI on the helter-skelter at the Wembley Exhibition, London 1925.

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A movie theater in the 1920s showing a Buster Keaton film.

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Melrose Abbey, Scotland - Roger Fenton, 1856

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Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall) - Robert Doisneau, 1950

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Central Railway Station, Sydney, Australia - 1924