Floral Postcard, France c. 1900s via Personal Collection
The people of Dagestan, circa 1905. Color photography by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
“Nurses”
“The picture postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) ushered in a new age of celebrity on the Japanese side, in which heroes were accompanied by heroines. The latter almost always tended to be Red Cross nurses, who played many symbolic roles. The Red Cross affiliation highlighted Japan’s new internationalism. Depictions of Japanese nurses providing aid and solace to wounded Russian prisoners were intended to demonstrate modern Japan’s humanitarianism. And, predictably, the nurses were invariably good-looking.” (source)
(Source: sisterwolf)
Hipsters? Nope, these are members of an early 1900s bicycle club in Bellingham. Photo on display now (with many others) in Wilson Library. (at Wilson Library)
f**king bellingham…
(Source: mywestern, via airshipcouture)
Thomas Edison pretending to know what he’s doing in his laboratory, early 1900’s.
(Source: thespacegoat)
