Fin de Siecle

Turn of the Century, from the 1870's up to 1920 (Art Nouveau, fin de siecle, Belle Époque) art, architecture, fashion, photography, & life. All of life, the good, the bad, and the very very ugly. Warning: I post historically accurate content, which includes crimes, racism, etc. i.e. Nazi scum fuck off and die

[shadesandshadows]

 The Grey Lady, 1888, photograph scanned from catalog of the work of John Everett Millais and published on Wikipedia. The painting is in a private collection.

  Millais, British, 1829-1896, could have been referring to many legends and ghost stories featuring a grey lady and hauntings. One of these is at Rufford Old Hall in Rufford, Lancashire, England, where a grey lady, Queen Elizabeth I and a man in Elizabethan clothing reportedly have been seen.   

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Josef Mandl - The Ghost (1898)

[vintageeveryday]

“May Sylvester, Yosemite, Cal.” 1910s.

[vintageeveryday]

Pictures from Victorian Play “Death and the Lady” (1906)

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Hiram Mattison - Vintage Astronomical Illustrations, “An Astronomy: In which the Descriptive, Physical, and Practical are Combined, with Special Reference to the Wants of Academies and Seminaries of Learning”, 1859. 1) Ptolemaic Theory of the Structure of the Universe 2) The Copernican System 3) Terrestrial and Celestial Spheres 4) Equator of the Heavens 5) The Solar System 6) Solar System and Sidereal Heavens 7) View of the Solar System 8) Perpendicular View of the Rings of Saturn 9) Telescopic View of Saturn 10) The Sun

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Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898), Mors syphiitica, 1905. Etching on Japan paper, image: 22.1 x 16 cm, sheet: 39.6 x 33.4 cm.

[myjewishaesthetic]

Jewish Girl from Sene, Eastern Kurdistan, 1896

[nemfrog]

Giant sunflower (left) and black-eyed susan (right). Birds and nature. October 1900. 

[clawmarks]

Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben - 1906, Band 2 - via University of Heidelberg

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‘Apple blossom’ hair comb by Lucien Gaillard, c. 1902.

[nemfrog]

Ghostly gesture. Second sight secrets and mechanical magic. 1905. Cover art. 

[nitratediva]

Spring awakens in Louis Feuillade’s Le Printemps (1909).

[nemfrog]

“Types of hand gestures.” Introduction to the study of sign language among the North American Indians. 1880. 

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[nemfrog]

“Photograph of lightning flash.” Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 1905. 

[nemfrog]

Parts of the body and corresponding star signs. Earthology; humanity characterized by the earth, sun, and zodiac, with prognostications from the moon. 1901.

[nemfrog]

The dragon. Fictitious & symbolic creatures in art. 1906. 

[historium]

Charles Green, ship’s cook for Endurance, skinning a penguin during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. The crew had to supplement provisions with seal and penguin meat while they were stranded in the ice for two years. 1914 - 17