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old advertising #1906 #Lustige Blätter #dutch #1900s
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Draped Figure on a Wind-Swept-Sea-Shore, 1906, Marianne H. Robilliard
Boreas, 1903, John William Waterhouse
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This looks like a stack of books, but it’s really for holding cookies. Sneaky.
This 1906 British biscuit (aka cookie) tin protected treats for travelers on bumpy roads, but also proved to be a valuable marketing tool for the company.
This one tin speaks volumes about turn-of-the-century manufacturing, packaging design, rail and steamship travel, and the British Empire. And now it’s in our design museum, @cooperhewitt.
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A postcard featuring a black and white photograph of a group of five women. Handwritten on the back of the postcard is ‘Mrs Whiteheads Life Saving Team / Winners of the Heape Shield / 1906’.
This image is part of an archive series consisting of photographs relating to the career of champion Australian swimmer, diver and vaudeville entertainer in Australia and the United Kingdom Beatrice Kerr. Australian National Maritime Museum collection, Object number ANMS1032[009] ANMM Collection Gift from Michael Williams
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July 24, 1906
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Mountain climbing dime novel, Pluck and Luck No. 430, August 29, 1906, Tom Porter’s Search; or, The Treasure of the Mountains by Richard R. Montgomery (house name).
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Henrique Alvim Correa: War of the Worlds, 1906
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A 1906 issue of Scientific American examines motorized roller skates exhibited at that year’s Paris Automobile Show. There were several models in development by different inventors at the time, including these by French inventor M. Constantini. They’re basically tiny cars that he wore on his feet:
In view of the fact that each skate contains a gasoline motor, carbureter, battery, and spark coil, it will be seen that the whole has been reduced to a comparatively small size. The use of the rubber-tired wheels is found to give a very smooth-running movement. On the back of each skate will be observed the small sheet-iron box which contains the battery and the spark coil. From the box a pair of wires protected by rubber tubing passes up to the leather belt which the person wears, ‘and upon the belt is placed the switch by which he is able to make or break the ignition circuit when he wishes to start or stop the motor or to regulate its speed. On the back part of the belt is fixed a small gasoline tank in the form of a flat and slightly curved sheet-iron box.
You can see patent drawings of other motorized skates at The Old Motor, a fun website about strange antique cars.
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Helen DuBois playing handball, Paris, 1906
Edward Linley Sambourne
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”[Gambling Hall in Casey's Merchants Hotel.] Manuscript caption on verso "Casey’s Merchants Hotel - Goldfield 1906." This scene shows faro, craps, and roulette being played at Casey’s Merchant’s Hotel in Columbia, one mile north of Goldfield. A slot machine is on the wall at the right, and a bartender works by the window. One of the men at the craps table is tossing chips onto the layout, as evidenced by his blurred arm.
The hotel was owned by Casey McDonnell, who also operated hotels of the same name in other Nevada boomtowns. The Nevada State Journal for 13 April 1911 reported the destruction of the hotel by fire, calling it a “famous gambling resort” and “one of the most historic dwellings on the desert.” This is one of the earliest and best photographs of the interior of a Western gambling hall.” [source - incl. more goldfields pics]
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Lise Meitner, 1906. Meitner was the second woman to earn a doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna and was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission in 1939.
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Mr West, and his fine moustache, on a duck shooting trip in Sindh, India.
From a British holiday album, 1906, with more here: bit.ly/U5btiM
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A maid reading while taking a break, no doubt well deserved. Cromwell Road, 1906. Photograph by Edward Linley Sambourne.
The concept of privacy with regard to photographs taken in the street was underdeveloped in Sambourne’s time. It’s probably true that as an upper middle class man he thought that his right to pursue his art outweighed any violation of his subject’s privacy.
What expectation of privacy would there be outside on a public footpath? The answer is none.
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But snapping photos of individual civilians in public—i.e. not crowd scenes, not one of the guards at Buckingham Palace, nor that random jerk who walked into your shot of the Eiffel Tower—and especially of women and children, will probably at the very least get you questioned and possibly arrested for further questioning as to your motives.
Modern etiquette as far as I know calls for someone to ask polite permission of the individual or their guardian(s) before taking a stranger’s picture.
In general in a public space Australia it is permissible to photograph:
People – It is permissible to photograph anyone in a public space. Thus if you see a celebrity and poke a camera in her face you can point out to the 150kg gorilla in a suit and sunglasses accompanying her that it is your legal right. You might explain that in Australia there is nobody has the right to not having their photo taken in a public place and that while it is legal for him to block your view he may not confiscate your camera or memory card without a court order. He will say that he is glad that he had this conversation and that your logic and persuasive reasoning has convinced him of your rights in this case. In general in Australia there is no such thing as a person having a right not to have their photo taken in a public place.
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A maid reading while taking a break, no doubt well deserved. Cromwell Road, 1906. Photograph by Edward Linley Sambourne.
The concept of privacy with regard to photographs taken in the street was underdeveloped in Sambourne’s time. It’s probably true that as an upper middle class man he thought that his right to pursue his art outweighed any violation of his subject’s privacy.
What expectation of privacy would there be outside on a public footpath? The answer is none.
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When Apples Were Golden and Songs Were Sweet but Summer Had Passed Away by John Melhuish Strudwick, 1906.
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— Gertrude and Ursula Falke (1906), daughters of writer Gustav Falke