#Early Photography

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Family Portrait (early 1900s) in Gainesville, Florida

#early photography #1900s #Victorian #Edwardian #photography #vintage photography #art #Miss Cromwell

[lionofchaeronea]

Lightning strikes the Eiffel Tower, June 3, 1902, 9:20 P.M. Photo from Thunder and Lightning by Camille Flammarion, trans. Walter Mostyn, published 1906.

#photography #history #historic photography #early photography #lightning #thunderstorm #Eiffel Tower #20th century photography #Camille Flammarion

[eyesfullofmoon]

Photos taken by Frank Hurley during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson, c. 1911-1914.

#1910s #old photos #* #antarctica #frank hurley #douglas mawson #expedition #glacier #nature #antarctic exploration #adventure #photography #polar expedition #ice #vintage #old photography #early photography #penguins #ships #ocean #sea #polar exploration #polar animals #wildlife #nature photography #1910s photographs

[chroniclesofnadia111]

Throwback series ✨🖤

#me #textures #hong kong model #early photography #texture project #photo series #blacktumblr #blackgirlmagic #caribbean #black tumblr #melanin #beauty #tumblrgirl #tumblr #modeling #hong kong #black girl magic #caribbean women #black models #tattoed beauty #tattoos #moodyvibes #luxury #alt beauty #afro hair

[intheblossomtree]

#1870s #people #baby #tintype #scratched out #19th century #found photo #antique #found photography #old photo #old photography #photography #vintage #vintage photography #old photos #antique photo #19th century photography #early photography #b&w #black and white #spooky

[srednod]

Jacob Olie jr Zelfportret voor de spiegel in de woonkamer die met bloemen is versierd 1913

#art #art history #photography #early photography #jacob olie #olie #rijksmuseum #amsterdam #self portrait #self-portrait #zelfportret #photographer #men #man #beard

[daguerreotyping]

Unknown Photographer, Two Young Men, c. 1850

#I've posted this before but it was a scan of a print in a book; this file is SO much higher quality! #please note however that I've edited for contrast—click link to see original at Met Museum site #19th century #1800s #1850s #19th century fashion #men's fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #early photography #19th century photography #daguerreotype #gay interest

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Children posing for a tintype photographer, 1920s.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1920s #early photography #street photography #street scene #children #taking pictures #tintypes #photographer

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

Found the perfect 1890s album page for my carte de visites of three Arctic veterans: John Hillary Allard, Leopold McClintock and George Strong Nares. They all went on search expeditions for the Franklin Expedition. Nares later led the British Arctic Expedition 1875.

LOOK AT THESE GUYS 😂

[From my collection]

#franklin expedition #royal navy #naval history #polar exploration #arctic #early photography #carte de visite #daguerreotype

[nobrashfestivity]

Eadweard Muybridge

1878-1887

Library Of Congress 

#eadweard muybridge #early photography #birds #diptych

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Clowns (1905) photographed by Frederick W. Glasier

#Clowns #photography #early photography #1900s #Edwardian #Edwardian era #Frederick W. Glasier #spooktober #spooky season #spooky #scary #art #Miss Cromwell

[aconitum-napellus]

Photographers Hannchen Jacobsen and Rachel Johnsen, who ran a photography business at Kirkegata 16 in Stavanger, Norway, from 1904 until Hannchen's death in 1908. Homosexuality was forbidden by law at that time. Rachel died in 1960, 52 years after Hannchen died. She never married.

[Info thanks to History In Color, and a descendant of Rachel Johnsen's brother, both on Facebook. Full photo archive here.]

#early photography #Norway #lgbtqia #Possible lgbtqia #Pride #roommates

[eyesfullofmoon]

"Jane Morris, posed by [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti"

Photographed by John R. Parsons, 1865, London.

#jane morris #1860s #old photos #women #* #dante gabriel rossetti #london #19th century #victorian #pre raphaelite #pre raphaelism #art #antique #victorian era #nineteenth century #victorian photography #19th century photography #history #photography #early photography #old photography #vintage #london england

[abstraxia]

English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) greets one of his models

#film #early film #early gay film #photography #early photography #motion #studies of motion #Eadweard Muybridge

[viafrantica]

Kimbei Kusakabe (1841-1934)

#japan #meiji #tattoos #early photography

[heaveninawildflower]

‘A Scene in a Library’ (before March 22nd 1844) by Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877).

‘A Scene in a Library’ was taken out of doors, where the light was stronger.

Salted paper print from paper negative.

Image and text information courtesy The Met.

#Henry Fox Talbot #early photography #library #books #19th century photograph