ladylabsinthe:

Vienna, the 1873 World Exhibition. Main entrance

Conservation of “The Flood in the Darling” by Australian artist W.C. Piguenit, 1890

Conservation of two 19th century paintings: The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, an 1818 painting by Jacques-Louis David and A Walk At Dusk, an 1837-40 painting by  Caspar David Friedrich

Conservation Treatment of 1808 Map of Milledgeville Georgia

Theodore Roosevelt as Badlands hunter - New York Studio Photo, 1885

Struggle with the Quarry - John Hancock, 1851
Taxidermy mount. The Natural History Society of Northumbria, The Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne.

This multi-layered taxidermy piece was created by John Hancock, popularly known as the father of modern taxidermy. He popularized the idea of preparing a specimen so that it was in dramatic motion, rather than demurely posed. This example depicts a falcon attacking a heron which held an eel.

Stephen Foster - Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway, 1850

Ah! may the red rose live alway,
To smile upon earth and sky!
Why should the beautiful ever weep?
Why should the beautiful die?
Lending a charm to every ray
That falls on her cheeks of light,
Giving the zephyr kiss for kiss,
And nursing the dew-drop bright –
Ah! may the red rose live alway,
To smile upon earth and sky!
Why should the beautiful ever weep?
Why should the beautiful die?

Long may the daisies dance the field,
Frolicking far and near!
Why should the innocent hide their heads?
Why should the innocent fear?
Spreading their petals in mute delight
When morn in its radiance breaks,
Keeping a floral festival
Till the night-loving primrose wakes –
Spreading their petals in mute delight
When morn in its radiance breaks,
Keeping a floral festival
Till the night-loving primrose wakes.

Lulled be the dirge in the cypress bough,
That tells of departed flowers!
Ah! that the butterfly’s gilded wing
Fluttered in evergreen bowers!
Sad is my heart for the blighted plants –
Its pleasures are aye as brief –
They bloom at the young year’s joyful call,
And fade with the autumn leaf:
Ah! may the red rose live alway,
To smile upon earth and sky!
Why should the beautiful ever weep?
Why should the beautiful die?

Ryokan,One, Two, Three, 19th c.

electronicgallery:

Art by Hughes Merle

Another city, another time: Los Angeles, 1885, 1st and Spring Street.

Thessaloniki in the late 19th century, found on Wikimedia Commons.

hauntedbystorytelling:

Clarence H. White :: Blind Man’s Bluff, 1898 vintage platinum print / src: gittermangallery

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weltandschaung:

Woman styling the hair of a woman sitting on a tatami, while a third woman is watching. Photo of a series of 42 hand coloured albumine prints at Spaarnestad Photo (Het Leven) by Felice Beato, Kusakabe Kimbei or Raimund baron von Stillfried. Japan, ca. 1880 / source: Nationaal Archief

19th century syringe

the-evil-clergyman:

Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1861)

the-evil-clergyman:

Dancing Fairies by August Malmström (1866)