"Marguerite, dressed as a man."
Al-Quds, Palestine | c. 1935
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Some years ago a lady brought to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh a trout covered with a fine coat of white fur. It was pleasingly mounted on a wooden shield and was labelled as follows:
FUR BEARING TROUT
Very Rare
Caught while trolling in Lake Superior off Gros Cap, Near Sault Ste. Marie, district of Algoma. It is believed that the great depth and the extreme penetrating coldness of the water in which these fish live has caused them to grow their dense coat of (usually) white fur. Mounted by ROSS C. JOBE, Taxidermist of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Visiting the museum to find out more about her unique fish, the lady was told that it was undoubtedly a trout (either brown or brook) and that its fine white coat was undoubtedly from a rabbit, whereupon she immediately presented the fish to the museum. She had bought this fake in good faith which indicates that the idea of a fur-bearing trout did not seem outlandish to her.
―Stanley Peter Dance, Animal Fakes & Frauds, 1976
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... untitled (photographer unknown)
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Family Portrait Series #29
清楚 / My grandma - Late 1950s
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Sharon Tate in 1968
Dress by Rudi Gernreich photo by Russell Ogg
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Zoned corundum crystal, Madagascar
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Two chorus girls circa 1935
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Little lambs (photographer unknown)
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… untitled (first snow) / photographer unknown
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Soft Cell live on The Tube, January 1983
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家族の肖像 / Happy 90th birthday to my grandma!
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