May 3rd, 2013
19th century illustration-1881 Les petits hommes by Louis Ratisbonne (by april-mo)

19th century illustration-1881 Les petits hommes by Louis Ratisbonne (by april-mo)

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April 18th, 2013
oldbookillustrations: Lines on the Mermaid Tavern. Robert Anning Bell, from Poems by John Keats, London, New York, 1897. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern.

Robert Anning Bell, from Poems by John Keats, London, New York, 1897.

(Source: archive.org)

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April 8th, 2013
liquidnight: Henry Peach Robinson Jenny Albumen print, 1857 From Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918

liquidnight:

Henry Peach Robinson

Jenny

Albumen print, 1857

From Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918

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April 4th, 2013
oldbookillustrations: Weyher and Richemond steam engine. Louis Poyet, from L’Exposition universelle de 1889 (The 1889 Paris world fair) vol. 3, by Émile Monod, Paris, 1890. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Weyher and Richemond steam engine.

Louis Poyet, from L’Exposition universelle de 1889 (The 1889 Paris world fair) vol. 3, by Émile Monod, Paris, 1890.

(Source: archive.org)

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April 4th, 2013
liquidnight: Julia Margaret Cameron A Beautiful Vision (Julia Duckworth) Carbon print, June 1872 [via PDN Photo of the Day]

liquidnight:

Julia Margaret Cameron

A Beautiful Vision (Julia Duckworth)

Carbon print, June 1872

[via PDN Photo of the Day]

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April 3rd, 2013
oldbookillustrations: Punching machine & metal cutter. From L’Exposition universelle de 1889 (The 1889 Paris world fair), by Émile Monod, Paris, 1890. (Source: archive.org) =:O

oldbookillustrations:

Punching machine & metal cutter.

From L’Exposition universelle de 1889 (The 1889 Paris world fair), by Émile Monod, Paris, 1890.

(Source: archive.org)

=:O

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April 3rd, 2013
liquidnight: Henry Peach Robinson On the Hill-Top, 1869 Albumen print From Henry Peach Robinson: Master of Photographic Art 1830-1901

liquidnight:

Henry Peach Robinson

On the Hill-Top, 1869

Albumen print

From Henry Peach Robinson: Master of Photographic Art 1830-1901

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March 12th, 2013
Syngnathiformes by Keisuke Ito, c. 1840s

Hippocampinae (Seahorse)
Aka-Yagara (Cornetfish)

Also

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January 21st, 2013
oldbookillustrations: At the show, where I stay - in spite of myself - under the crossfire of gazes, lorgnettes, and of those double-mortars called opera glasses… Jean-Jacques Grandville, from Petites misères de la vie humaine (Little troubles of human life), by Old Nick (Paul-Émile Daurand-Forgues), Paris, 1870. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

At the show, where I stay - in spite of myself - under the crossfire of gazes, lorgnettes, and of those double-mortars called opera glasses…

Jean-Jacques Grandville, from Petites misères de la vie humaine (Little troubles of human life), by Old Nick (Paul-Émile Daurand-Forgues), Paris, 1870.

(Source: archive.org)

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January 18th, 2013
sutured-infection: Deformity apparatus: Chas. F. Stillman’s long bow-leg braces. 1893 medical supply catalogue.

sutured-infection:

Deformity apparatus: Chas. F. Stillman’s long bow-leg braces. 1893 medical supply catalogue.

(via mirrormaskcamera)

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