#historic photography

[lionofchaeronea]

Photographic half-length portrait of a Native American (Dakota) man named Sun Flower, taken by a photographer for Heyn Photo in 1899. Now in the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

[diioonysus]

black cowboys

john ware (1845-1905)

bass reeves (1838-1910)

bose ikard (1843-1929)

nat love (1854-1921)

bill pickett (1870-1932)

mary fields (1832-1914)

[f0restpunk]

[scamallach-1]

Archived shots of musicians from Ireland via dúchas.ie

[forthosebefore]

Summer Scene, 1866 by G. Gable

Harry Stephens was a former house servant of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy and, after the war, U.S. senator. The photograph was likely made on the grounds of Liberty Hall, Alexander Stephens's home in Crawfordsville, Georgia. In its modest scale, careful annotation, and evocative title, the photograph remains a personal document that is nonetheless especially poignant and monumental. Harry and Eliza Stephens and their five children had survived slavery and the war. A local photographer's success at recording the family's collective possession of their new freedom is one of the more remarkable achievements of the still unseasoned medium.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Visit www.attawellsummer.com/forthosebefore to learn more about Black history.

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[ghw-archive]

Portrait of a man taken by Frederic Evans in the early 20th century.

[junosview]

Yorkshire Gold

It’s time for a British Summer Tour 2024. Why go travelling the world in search of summer sunshine and exotic experiences? Yes, I know, that question has probably already answered itself. In times of undoubted climate change, we can thank the mindless emitters and evidence deniers for the cooler and even wetter British June & July of 2024. Ducks need not engage with this previous…

[alittlewoozyhere]

My great grandma, Violet Leib. It runs in the family.

[runawayandhide]

[666candies]

adam and eve apple. quote translates to “I am your half”

[lionofchaeronea]

A Wet Night, Columbus Circle, William A. Fraser, 1897-98

[kyleknight]

yknow when you get a photography book and the whole thing is just top quality but then theres that ONE photo that always hits you like a ton of bricks and you'd have bought the book for that photo alone?

That's this photo for me. Photo credit/information below:

(the book is called Image & Exploration - Early Travel Photography from 1850 to 1914)

[wandering-jana]

Matera, Italy is famous for the Sassi, small homes built into the rock that supports the city. The residents shared the space with their farm animals. They were lived in until the 1950s.

March 3, 2024

[dark-black-dahlia]

[lackadaisycal-art]

Sometimes photos can capture something so breathtakingly, compellingly odd you just have to draw it

[die-rosastrasse]

The Sleep of Sorrow and the Dream of Joy by Raffaelle Monti

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 02 IX 2017