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The long cape entirely constructed with layers of overlapping peacock feather shaped panels, each panel finely worked in satin stitch, the silk threads in tones of ivory, yellow and blue on the eye of the peacock feather, and the surround intricately worked in peacock feather filaments, with one cloth button on the collar and another near the waist, finished with Imperial yellow lining.
45 1/4 in.(115 cm) long
Louis Dodier, prisoner was the first prisoner ever photographed in 1847.
Cats and their rodent admirers. Simplicissimus. July 18, 1896. Cover art.
“The doomed tiger.” Chatterbox. 1898.
Maurice Sand, Werewolves leaning against the wall of a cemetery at night, 1858
photo of a tornado in Oklahoma 1898
Ludwig Becker, Sternschnuppe, 1860.
Mugshot of a 2-year-old Francois Bertillon, arrested for eating a basket of pears
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So actually these photos were taken by the kid’s uncle, Alphonse Bertillon, who was a French police officer and inventor of the mug shot. These photos were just taken as a joke, probably when Bertillon was developing his mugshot technique and needed someone to practice on.
No actual two-year-olds were arrested in the creation of these photos!
There was also an 1893
From people thinking a toddler was actually arrested, to people somehow misreading “1800s nostalgia” as “1880s,” to this person thinking a fucking daguerreotype was taken in the 1990s… this whole thread was a ride I didn’t expect to take today.
This is worse than the math post
Utagawa Toyohiro (1773–1828) —
Flying Sparrows and Snow-covered Bamboo 雪中の竹に雀
Sakai Hōitsu (1761–1828) — Crows in the Moonlight , early 19th century
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Princeton University Art Museum
not to be a dramatic bitch but the iconic emily bronte line ‘i wish i were a girl again, half savage and hardy and free’ hits me in the chest every time and transports me to an undisclosed rural hill in england some time in the 1800s with my hair tangling in the wind as im forced to think about everything i was and everything i’m turning into
“Nude Vampire With Gloves” Tintype on Silver, 1864, Artist Unknown (and possibly consumed)
this is the greatest fucking caption i’ve ever seen
Autumn evening (1878) By Eilif Peterssen
The Lands of Heaven (Les terres du ciel), 1877.
Hemingway wishes he could
