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William Nicholson Jennings

A vintage WWI recruitment poster - Enlistment was voluntary, at first

NYC's Lost Shantytowns and Shacks. 1870's - 1910's

Second Avenue from Hotel Seattle, Seattle (1910). Asahel Curtis

“Times Square at night.“  Photographed 1911.

Crystal Palace beauty 1880’s (by unexpectedtales)

Sniffing ozone, 1910.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ One of the many bizarre photos in High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by champion of electro-therapeutics Samuel Howard Monell, who did “more for static electricity than any other living man”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/high-frequency-electric-currents-in-medicine-and-dentistry-1910

by Fratelli Alinari, 1889

Barricade de la Rue de la Faubourg du Temple, Paris (detail) Taken by Charles François Thibault, 25 June 1848, near the end of the insurrection known as the June Days Uprising of 22 to 26 June. This arose in response to the planned closure of state workshops for the unemployed.

These are the first known pictures showing an insurrection and complete barricades.

Farm in Hastings County, Ontario (1902)

USS TEXAS (BB-35) heading down the East River, New York City. She had just received modifications at the New York Navy Yard. These included replacing the Searchlights with range finders on top of her cranes. The lookout bucket configuration was changed on her forward cage mast,along with a vertical antenna was added on front side of it as well.

Photographed on June 22, 1916. 

New York Historical Society: PR83_3578, PR83_3579

Victorian ingenuity: a mahogany "reading station" crafted by Charles Hindley & Co. circa 1890. It features a double wing-back seat with an arm divider, each seat equipped with an adjustable reading stand, various compartments, drawers, and bookshelves.

Photos courtesy of Butchoff Antiques

New York City, May 1905. “‘L’ Station, Chatham Square.”

The glamorous Cleo de Merode, ca. 1900