[semprelibera]

Chi fu l’anima sazia

che tolse da un affresco

o da un missale il fresco

sogno di tanta grazia?

Guido Gozzano, La via del rifugio

[vintageeveryday]

Vintage French postcards of mighty moustached men with flowers.

[centuriespast]

Myra Albert Wiggins (American, 1869-1956), Nymphaea, 1908, platinum print

Portland Art Museum

[fuckyeahvintageillustration]

‘The new art of an ancient people - the work of Ephraim Mose Lilien’ by M. S. Levussove. Published 1906 by B. W. Huebsch, New York.

See the complete book here.

[fuckyeahvintageillustration]

Cover illustration by E. M. Lilien for ‘Ost und West’ magazine (1901 - 1923)

‘Ost und West’ (East and West) was Germany’s first Jewish journal. Richly illustrated, it contained an assortment of pictorials, short stories and poems.

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[alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea]

May 1897 cover of Jugend magazine.

(source: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg)

[thefugitivesaint]

Fritz Erler (1868-1940), “Jugend”, 1909 Source

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A few of my favorite photos of Lily Elsie

[omgthatdress]

Dress

1910

Les Arts Décoratifs

[early20thcenturynerd]

Visting Dress, from Les Modes; February 1911

[lilyelsie]

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News - Saturday October 16 1909

[undr]

Anna Maria Borghese, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1900

[ephemeral-elegance]

Belle Epoque Day Dress, ca. 1906

G. Giuseffi L. T. Company

via IMA

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Hedwig von Haentjens as Diana DIANA in ‘Sylvia’, 1891

Hedwig von Haentjens as Diana in ‘Sylvia’, 1981. Choreography by Carl Telle, music by Leo Delibes, 1891. Anonymous photographer. | src

[fashionsfromhistory]

Walking Dress

c.1900

Scotland

Museo de El Palacio

[fripperiesandfobs]

Cape ca. 1890

From Whitaker Auctions

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Evening dress ca. 1914

From Whitaker Auctions