Gottfried Arnegger (Austrian, b. 1905), "Alpine Winter Landscape"

Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868 - 1947)

The Return of Orpheus

Mary Steichen with matryoshkas (early 20th century)

Photography by Edward Steichen

In the late 19th and early 20th century, enigmatic photographer T. Enami (1859-1929) captured a number of 3D stereoviews depicting life in Meiji-period Japan.

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Charles Courtney Curran (American, 1861–1942)

A Dunhill brass and lucite ‘Aquarium’ lighter.  Mid 20th. century.

A modern manuscript, written and illuminated in medieval style, containing a contemporary retelling of a medieval tale.

France, Anatole, 1844-1924. Le jongleur de Notre-Dame : ecrit enluminé et historié par Malatesta, manuscript, 1906.

MS Typ 1201

Houghton Library, Harvard University

2000′s Dove Hair Products commercial feat. Hanna-Barbera Characters

Portrait of Uzbek woman in traditional costume (Ikat textiles), first photo studio in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Early of 20 century.

Flight to Mars | 1951

Ichiro Tsuruta, from JCA Annual 8 (1989)

Collection of early 20th century travel posters for Japanese steamship companies (from the book Miwaku no Funatabi, published by the Museum of Maritime Science, 1993).

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CHŁOPI (eng. THE PEASANTS)   2022, dir. Dorota Kobiela — concept trailer

Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władyslaw Reymont, the story follows a young woman in the late 19th century who is forced to marry a wealthy farmer, despite her love for his son. The townspeople come to despise her, but she fights on. Set in the Polish countryside on the cusp of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the story’s dramatic turns tie into the changing seasons, hard labor in the fields, and the traditional local holidays. The look is inspired “by popular realist and pre-impressionist paintings from the 19th Century, with an emphasis on the Young Poland Movement and the works of such artists as Józef Chełmoński, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, and Leon Wyczółkowski.” It won’t be done until 2022, considering every frame (over ~65,000) has to be painted by hand. 

Walter Cronkite was born on this day in 1916. Seen here introducing the living room of the future on The 21st Century, 1967.

Print on paper. “The Holy Mahmal”

Middle East; 20th century The annual pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca, the hajj, is made in the last month of the Islamic lunar calendar, Dhu al-Hijja. All Muslims should make the pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime, but Islamic law provides for a number of exceptions for people who are unable to make the journey for some reason or other.

This print shows the annual pilgrimage caravan from Egypt to Mecca. The Egyptian governor had a beautifully decorated symbolic litter, called a mahmal, transported on camelback. The last Egyptian mahmal embarked on the journey from Cairo to Mecca and back in 1926.