tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1860-1890’s, [carte de visite portrait of a musician hard at work with his beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay guitar]
via Capitol Gallery, Cabinet Card & Carte de Visite Catalogue

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1860-1890’s, [carte de visite portrait of a musician hard at work with his beautiful mother-of-pearl inlay guitar]

via Capitol Gallery, Cabinet Card & Carte de Visite Catalogue

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1858, [ambrotype portrait of a smiling young girl with a book]
via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1858, [ambrotype portrait of a smiling young girl with a book]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

natgeofound:

A “drugstore cowboy” preparing to deliver orders on his bicycle in Texas, 1938.Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic

natgeofound:

A “drugstore cowboy” preparing to deliver orders on his bicycle in Texas, 1938.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic

natgeofound:

Navy pilots test their steadiness and muscular coordination in Corpus Christi, Texas.Photograph by the U.S. Navy

natgeofound:

Navy pilots test their steadiness and muscular coordination in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Photograph by the U.S. Navy

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (published May 14, 1925)

Today’s a good day to correct with red ink or buy flowers yourself… or re-visit an old classic like Mrs. Dalloway. Have a perfectly Dalloway day!

(via nypl)
natgeofound:

Men dry betel nuts in George Town, Malaysia, 1938.Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

natgeofound:

Men dry betel nuts in George Town, Malaysia, 1938.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1860-80’s, [carte de visite, portrait of a mutton chopped luthier working on a violin]
via Macrafly, Curated Historic Photography

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1860-80’s, [carte de visite, portrait of a mutton chopped luthier working on a violin]

via Macrafly, Curated Historic Photography

blackhistoryalbum:

BALLERS | 1920s
Alpha Phi Alpha basketball team on the steps on of there fraternity house on Striver’s Row, Harlem, NYC, circa 1920s. By James Van Der Zee Via
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blackhistoryalbum:

BALLERS | 1920s

Alpha Phi Alpha basketball team on the steps on of there fraternity house on Striver’s Row, Harlem, NYC, circa 1920s. By James Van Der Zee Via

Black History Album, The Way We Were
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tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of a mechanic with a pipe]
via the International Center of Photography

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of a mechanic with a pipe]

via the International Center of Photography

life:

Happy birthday, Barbra Streisand!
Here, look back at LIFE’s 1966 cover story on the then-23 year old.
(Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

life:

Happy birthday, Barbra Streisand!

Here, look back at LIFE’s 1966 cover story on the then-23 year old.

(Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)