Photograph: David Gahr
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Monday 30 October 2017
Sunday 29 October 2017
Slayer of Monsters
Saturday 28 October 2017
Imperial County
Friday 27 October 2017
Jacques Garnerin's Parachute
The first parachute by Jacques Garnerin, tested by himself in the park of Mousseaux, 22 October 1797. Three technical illustrations show "Calotte du parachute" (crown of parachute); "Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe" (folded parachute, moment of release from ascending balloon); and "Parachute déployé, à l'instant de la séparation d'avec le ballon" (unfolded parachute, moment of separation). Etching with aquatint, hand-colored. 1798 or 1799 (Year 7 of the French revolutionary calendar)
Thursday 26 October 2017
Dancing Mothers
Publicity shot for the film Dancing Mothers
with Clara Bow and Conway Tearle, 1926
Photo: Famous-Laskey Productions
Lobby card for the 1926 film Dancing Mothers
(Paramount Pictures)
Wednesday 25 October 2017
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Amazing Stories
Monday 23 October 2017
Sunday 22 October 2017
Saturday 21 October 2017
Friday 20 October 2017
Thursday 19 October 2017
Wednesday 18 October 2017
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Monday 16 October 2017
Sunday 15 October 2017
Saturday 14 October 2017
Friday 13 October 2017
Edward Lear
Photo: McLean, Melhuish & Haes - 1862
Albumen print, carte-de-visite
(National Portrait Gallery, London)
"Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots"
(1832) by Edward Lear
Thursday 12 October 2017
International Day of the Girl - (Oct. 11)
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Monday 9 October 2017
Sunday 8 October 2017
Poor Old Mrs Constitution
Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution, Aged 141 (1829), a satirical cartoon by the British artist William Heath. It depicts the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox. This cartoon represents Wellington's and Peel's perceived extinguishing of the Constitution of 1688 through the Catholic Emancipation, particularly the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.
Saturday 7 October 2017
Magazine Cover Art
Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1950
Artwork by Earle Bergey
Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 1944
Artwork by Earle Bergey
Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spring 1946
Artwork by Earle Bergey
Friday 6 October 2017
Esther Eggers
Esther Eggers, aged 22. Criminal record number 465LB, 16 December 1919.
State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW
Crime: Malicious injury to property and wounding with intent
to do grievous bodily harm. When a police officer arrived to
arrest Esther Eggers for malicious damage she attacked him,
causing serious injury. Eggers was sentenced to 12 months prison.
Part of an archive of forensic photography created by the NSW Police
between 1912 and 1964. New South Wales. Dept. of Prisons.
(b&w Glass plate negative)
Thursday 5 October 2017
The Red Baron
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Jean Genet
Dr. Hans Koechler, President of the I.P.O., right,
receiving French author Jean Genet at the Imperial
Hotel in Vienna (19 December 1983) in connection with a
lecture organized by the International Progress Organization.
Photograph: I.P.O.
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Monday 2 October 2017
Sunday 1 October 2017
Oswego, New York
Light house and Fort Ontario, Oswego, N.Y.
8 x 10 in. glass negative - ca.1900
(Detroit Publishing Co.)
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