oldbookillustrations:

Starlings.

From Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s animal life) vol. 4, under the direction of Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig & Vienna, 1900.

(Source: archive.org)

collectivehistory:

Truant hanging around boats in the harbor during school hours, Boston, 1909, by Lewis Hine

oldbookillustrations:

Front cover from The lady of the lake, by Walter Scott, illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock. London, 1904.

(Source: archive.org)

sweetwhiteviolets:

An extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II.

He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun.

Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.

todaysdocument:

“This is my day to be heard”
-the “Silent Voter” 

From the Clifford Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

Three nervous Presidential candidates peer over the shoulder of a character representing the silent voter, wondering how he will mark his ballot on Election Day, 1904. President Theodore Roosevelt is the Republican incumbent, opposed by Judge Alton B. Parker, the Democratic candidate and Thomas Edward Watson of the People’s Party.

pioneers-o-pioneers:

babiesareyum:

“A member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition plays the bagpipe for an indifferent penguin, 1904.”

Fucks given = 0

honkshu:

Charles Dana Gibson, The Weaker Sex, 1903.

(Source: hoodoothatvoodoo)

orionthecoffeemaker:

From The Song of the Library Staff by Sam Walter Foss (1906). 

oldbookillustrations:

Ere the Leviathan can swim a league.

Arthur Rackham, from A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, London, New York, 1908.

(Source: archive.org)

theshipthatflew:

maudelynn: Early 1900s postcard

A source for this image would be great.  I’d like to know more about it.  The postcard seems to be printed in German with handwriting in French.  There’s a story here, even beyond the fact that apparently you could fly with umbrellas when you vacationed in Europe at the turn of the century.

Edit, 5 October 2012:  This image is from maudelynn’s personal collection.  Thank you! :)