Thomas Andrew - Thinking Woman, 1890-1910
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Lillian Russell (1860-1922) - The Amazing Life Of A “Scandalous” Operetta Diva
Her importance has been somewhat exaggerated because of her looks and mini scandals … she has become a ‘name’ … witness the film. But she’s still fun!”
Indeed, she is. And in many ways her career is typical of other famous operetta divas from the 19th century, be it in Paris or Vienna. So I think it’s worth presenting Helena Louisa Leonard afresh, the woman born on 4 December 1860 in Clinton, Iowa, who died in New York in 5 June 1922 and was “America’s queen of comic opera in the last decades of the 19th century”, a “buxom beauty of early 20th-century Broadway burlesque.”
Lillian Russell in 1905. (Photo: Benjamin Falk)
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Dressing Obi, Kusakabe Kimbei, 1870s-90s
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett by Sallie E. Garrity, c.1893 (National Portrait Gallery)
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Floral Study (about 1870–1890) by an unknown French maker.
Albumen silver print.
Image and text information courtesy The Getty.
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Full Moon Stereoview, Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, USA, 1871
Met Museum New York
Provenance: donated by Weston J. Naef 1982
3 3/8 × 6 7/8 in. (8.6 × 17.5 cm)
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Newsman
1870s
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Unknown French photographer, portrait of
Edgar Degas, early 20th century, albumen silver print (?)
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Auguste-Rosalie Bisson. (French, 1826-1900)
The Ascent of Mont Blanc, 1861
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of New York
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Unknown, Cat sleeping, about 1865. Albumen silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XC.702.203
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Circle of Thomas Eakins, The Grafly Album: Male Nude Figure Studies at the Art Students League of Philadelphia, 1886, albumen prints | gelatin silver print | album.
Clark Art Institute
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Fall Lake Tarawera, 1880-1898
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[Year: 1867
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Artist/creator: Portrait taken of an unknown samurai, by the respected Nagasaki photographer Uchida Kuichi, at his Yokohama studio before he moved to the Asakusa district of Edo (modern Tokyo). Uchida would go on to be the first and only photographer permitted to photograph the Emperor Meiji.]
i love the thought of nations appearing in old photographs and portraits, crossing paths with real photographers, painters and sculptors—and leaving glimpses of themselves throughout history that way. personally, i think kiku always kept long hair—until the pressure to westernise unleashed by the american black ships and the encroachment of other western powers. and so, right on the dawn of the meiji era, i see him deciding to have one final photograph taken before that symbolic haircut that would break with centuries of japanese and wider east asian tradition.
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Ragazzo travestito da ragazza
Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) ~ Boy [Giacomo Lanfranchi] dressed as a girl, with cloak of cloth over head, Taormina, Sicily, 1906. Albumen silver print from glass negative | src The Met
Wilhelm von Gloeden ~ [Boy dressed as girl in Gypsy lace shawl], ca. 1900 | src Palmer Museum of Art of The Pennsylvania State University
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Beatrice, 1866, albumen silver print (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu)
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• Athens - Erechtehion.
Artist/Photographer: Baron Paul des Granges (Greek, 1825-1911)
Date: 1868–mid 1880's
Medium: Albumen silver print
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