@slaktarpierre / slaktarpierre.tumblr.com
Haha. Went on a nostalgia trip and checked this account. *shiver* Oh dearie. This isn’t for anyone else since it’s been years, years, and I doubt anyone of my friends will see this, it’s for myself if I want to go on another nostalgia trip, to see that this poor sod of an account didn’t end up on too sour a note:
I’m completely healthy and happy as a clam.
Now this poor sod of an account doesn’t look as depressing anymore. Woop.
I'm taking a break. I don't know for how long. My mental status and health is driving me nuts and and and etc. That is: I'm very ill. I miss all my friends here. I will be back, I just don't know when.
And it feels egocentric to write a message like this, but I just wanted to say. I don't believe myself to be enourmously missed or anything but that's how it goes. So long, friends, and see you.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, the Spiritualism movement was all the rage, and people sought out mediums to communicate with spirits. Especially after World War I, when so many lives were lost, people wanted to speak with their dead loved ones.
This photograph was taken at a seance in 1920, in which a musical instrument appears to be levitating. (via)
Portrait of a Gentleman.
Pompeo Batoni, 1760 - 70.
The Kiss - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1893
A suffragette posed in police uniform to illustrate the concept of a policewoman, Cincinnati, Ohio circa 1909.
Albert Bierstadt, Sioux Village near Fort Laramie, 1859, oil on panel, Bequest of C.R. Smith, 1991.
Albert Bierstadt, Indian Canoe, c. 1886, oil on canvas, Gift of C.R. Smith, 1976.
Detail of Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus
Domenico Beccafumi (Italian, 1486-1551), Head of a young man in profile. Oil on paper. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The Scholar’s Playthings, 1917. Giorgio de Chirico. Oil on canvas
Reverie (study) by John William Godward
the vaughn sisters, alberta and ada mae, 1927 (www.operator_99.blogspot.com)
miss irene bordoni, 1912 (www.operator_99.blogspot.com)
Johannes Hendricus Jurres (Dutch 1875-1946)
Samson and Delilah, oil on canvas, 92 x 118 cm.
marlene dietrich, 1931 (www.operator_99.blogspot.com)
A great many ghosts rushed towards the Brahman.
Warwick Goble, from Folk-tales of Bengal, by Lal Behari Day, London, 1912.
(Source: archive.org)
