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tuesday-johnson:
ca. 1870-90, [tintype portrait of a fireman posing proudly with his axe]
via Jeffery Kraus, Antique Photographics
I wish we still had that much style in the firefighting business.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mao9qx8kDw1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
ca. 1870-90, [tintype portrait of a fireman posing proudly with his axe]
I wish we still had that much style in the firefighting business.
Sazonov house. Built in the 1890s in Ostashevo, Chuchloma, Kostroma region of Russia.
The history of the house is a little convoluted and obscure. Though it is commonly know as Sazonov house, there is speculation that it was not built by the wealthy merchant Sazonov, but by a man named Markov. Ropet is also credited with the design of the house, but it is not clear whether the house, which is a lot simpler than its blueprints, was built by Ropet himself or an architect that borrowed or was influenced by his ideas and aesthetic.
Photo of the house pre-Revolution.
Blueprint by Ivan Ropet
(via Russkij Sever and Russia Trek)
(via planb-becomeapirate)
Charles Warren - carbon print portrait by Herbert Rose Barraud of London.
Wikipedia:
General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS (7 February 1840 – 21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of Temple Mount. Much of his military service was spent in the British South Africa, but in earlier life he was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders. His command in combat during the Second Boer War was criticised, but he achieved considerable success during his long life in his military and civil posts.
