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arkhangelskoye:

White propaganda poster, “Lieutenant - General Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel” in a series of “generals” posters. VSYUR. 1919.

deutschemark:

{Baron Peter von Wrangel (Russian: Pyotr Nikolayevich Vrangel), General of the Imperial Army, Commander-in-chief of the White Army in Crimea - c. 1920}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Nikolayevich_Wrangel

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Confederate Infantryman armed with a revolver and Bowie knife]

via Heritage Auctions

books0977:

Merchant of Images (c.1862). Alexandre Antigna (French, 1817-1878). Oil on canvas. Bordeaux, Museum of Fine Arts.

Until 1845 Antigna’s paintings were generally religious scenes and portraits. Yet, after living in the poor quarter of the Île Saint-Louis in Paris he would incorporate images of the suffering and burden of urban poor into his works. By the 1848 Revolution Antigna was devoted to the Realist style, and continued to paint in this manner until c.1860 when he began to produce paintings in the Naturalist vein.

willigula:

WWI poster by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, Russian Empire

A 1914 poster prepared for a charity clothing drive sponsored by the All-Russian Land Union by an important Russian artist and stage designer. Korovin often worked in the manner of Impressionists, but for this poster, he turns for inspiration to the archetypal image from Russian antiquity, that of Dmitri Donskoi, the first Russian national hero figure. The viewer is left with the feeling that ignoring the drive is really not an option, and that participation is a civic duty of every citizen. A highly desirable, often reproduced poster (see e.g., Baburina, Russian Posters of WWI).

turnofthecentury:

Arlette Dorgere by Reutlinger

thanks to marc verat

(via modernfoppery)

smithsonianlibraries:

Carousel advertisements from the turn of the 20th Century.  Interestingly he Smithsonian carousel on the Mall is a Herschell.  Want to know more about our carousel’s history?  http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/08/oom-pah-pah-carousel-time/