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Photography, Art & Life between the 1880s and 1920s.

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Amazing found photographs capture street scenes of London in the 1930s.

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Photography by Frederick H. Evans, 1888-1911

platinum prints

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Women’s fashion from the 1860s to the 1970s.

[vintageeveryday]

Amazing portraits of Elspeth Beard, the first British woman to ride a motorcycle around the world.

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Charles Corbet, Melancholia, c. 1910

Autochrome (8,5 x 10 cm)

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Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge Suspender Cables-October 7, 1914 by Eugene de Salignac

 from MoPA

[turnofthecentury]

The Wind, c.1910 by Imogen Cunningham

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Friedrich Seidenstücker. Puddle Jumper, Berlin, 1930.

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Claire Bloom at the National Gallery, London, 1952, photo by Sam Shaw

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140 years ago today – 15 February 1879 – President Hayes signed a bill allowing women lawyers to argue cases before the US Supreme Court.

Pictured is Belva Lockwood, the first woman member of the Supreme Court bar.

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Christina in Red: Rare 1913 Color Photos Show How People Lived 100 Years Ago

We imagine the past in black-and-white, but Mervyn O’Gorman was taking color photos using glass plates coated in potato starch in 1913. The technical name for this process is autochrome, and O’Gorman used it to take beautiful pictures of his daughter Christina wearing red in the British countryside. As the photos contain little to give their era away, they seem to be from no specific period; in fact, they almost weren’t taken at all. These photos and the technology behind them are both curious side projects, neither of them being the primary invention or occupation of their authors. Autochrome was patented in 1903 by the Lumier Brothers in France, who were most famous for their work with cinema; Mervyn O’Gorman is best known as a motoring pioneer and one of the greatest British aeronautical engineers of his time. Mervin died in 1958. No details remain of Christina’s life, but Mervin’s 1913 photos remain a beautiful example of what can happen by accident. by Dainius

Source: http://www.boredpanda.com/autochrome-photography-christina-mervyn-ogorman/

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Iris and Janet, Bury Knowle, Headington, Oxford, 1914, Ethelreda Laing

Ethelreda Laing’s autochrome of her daughters is an example of early colour photography. The autochrome process used a random mosaic of coloured potato starch grains on a glass plate covered with a photographic emulsion which, when exposed to light and developed, produced a full-colour positive transparency. The process (patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903) continued to be the most popular colour process until the early 1930s.

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Autochromes:

Charles Adrien / Monsieur Adrien dans son jardin, vers 1910

Charles Adrien / Madame Adrien dans son jardin, vers 1910

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Color autochrome portrait of a group sitting on a bench probably somewhere in France, c. 1911. Taken by French autochrome inventors Auguste and Louis Jean Lumière.

Source: Sotheby’s.

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Margate beach by John Cimon Warburg, 1913

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Mona Limerick, 1909

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Yokohama Grand Hotel 横浜グランドホテル - Hand colored postcard - Japan - 1890s