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The musk of a house whose occupants are no longer among the living. Fog rolling in on the dimly lit city streets. Whispers that come from nowhere. The mist of the moors that wet your hair. other blogs: valleywitch and witchyfashion

[genuruch]

[spirit-of-art]

Paul Delaroche, Les Suites d'un duel (The Sequel to a duel), 1825

[danismm]

Conservatories, 1920

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of a boy and his dog holding hands/paws, c. 1880s

[hauntedbystorytelling]

In 1895 Phipps Conservatory hosted the Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar, during which this iconic image was captured. In the photo, a woman, Angie Means, stands on a giant Amazonian water lily pad, Victoria regia, in the Victoria Room. | src Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and USC

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[arcanewraith]

Theodore von Holst, The Wish, 1840

[visionsofour-past]

• Children with Goat Cart.

Place of origin: Europe (?)

Date: ca. 1900

Medium: Gelatin silver print

[littlepennydreadful]

 Ferdinand G. Waldmüller, On All Souls’ Day, 1839

[visionsofour-past]

• Roman Forum - northwest corner.

Artist/Photographer: Robert Macpherson (Scottish, 1811 - 1872)

Culture: Scottish

Date: 1850’s

Medium: Albumen silver print

[germany1900]

Stuttgart, Germany, 1925

[intheheartofautumn]

 Roshanara (Olive Craddock)

[littlepennydreadful]

 Olive Craddock, “Roshanara” c.1910

[talleyrandsghost]

Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769) La Lecture

[visionsofour-past]

• Total Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon.

Photographer: Edward N. Burdick (North American, 1866–1935)

Date: January 24, 1925

Medium: Gelatin silver print

~ Total Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. Showing photos exposures at 5 minute intervals. Taken at Westerly, R. I. Saturday A. M. January 24th, 1925. Residence shown is that of Mr. Geo. Davison.

[theinternetarchive]

'woman in black taffeta dress and lace shawl,' daguerreotype; albert sands southworth and josiah johnson hawes, united states c. 1850.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Scene in the Bois de Boulogne park of Paris

French vintage postcard

[visionsofour-past]

• Portrait photograph of a nun and nurses posed sitting and standing under a tree. ~Staff of Providence Hospital

Date: ca. 1895

[enchantedbook]

Ophelia from ‘The Illustrated Library Shakespeare ’ illustration by Sir John Gilbert, 1890