Echoes of the past

This blog is dedicated to the beauty of vintage! I always had a feeling that i come from another era so through this blog i will not let the magic of the past fade! I am also a silent-movie addict. If you have any questions just send me a message.

[maudelynn]

Sister Act

1900s postcard

[saisonciel]

Harriet Cohen by Dorothy Wilding, 1920s

[yan-wo]

Virginia Oldoini, countess of Castiglione, mistress of Napoleon III, patron of experimental photography, experimental photographer. She sent this photograph of herself, titled Lady Vengeance, golden dagger in hand, to her husband. 

[naldibutnice]

The Hand-Glass by Davis & Eickemeyer, 1907

[fragrantblossoms]

Edith Glogau. The dancer Maria Mindszenty in a carnival costume from the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, 1929.

[unexplained-events]

Bat Costumes were a popular choice of Halloween attire back in the early 1900s. Since there weren’t any professional/specialist costume shops, these were mostly home made.

[silent--era]

Evelyn Nesbit photographed by Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., 1901

[rosieandthemoon]

French Lacemakers, 1920

[chubachus]

A young woman wearing an electrophone with which she could listen to live entertainment such as plays and concerts over the telephone line, 1901. By Foulsham and Banfield.

More information.

[screengoddess]

Hedy Lamarr

[gacougnol]

George Rinhart

Young woman smoking 1920-1930

[sabinerondissime]

A pig photobombs a rural wedding, location unknown, but somewhere in England, 1927.

[silents-please]

The space films of Segundo de Chomón.

Top: Excursion dans la lune (FR 1908); middle and bottom: Voyage sur Jupiter (FR 1909).

Read more on early space travel films here: To the stars and beyond: movies dream of outer space, 1898-1910

[gatabella]

Merle Oberon, 1930s

[marypickfords]

La fée aux étoiles (1902)

[blondebrainpowered]

Geisha in her kimono, Kyoto, Japan, June of 1927. Autochrome Lumiere

Photographer: Franklin Price Knott

[regardintemporel]

Unknown Photographer - Women dressed as angels smoking backstage during a college Christmas pageant, 1928