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Cutting and rickling reeds, shooting snipe and fishing for Pike, catching eels and quanting the marsh. The Norfolk Broads in the mid-1800s as seen thru’ the gentle lens of naturalist, photographer & ex-physician, Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936).

Peter Henry Emerson was born in Cuba and travelled to a remote,...

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Travel

Tight corsets, outrageous bustles, picnics, hiking & tea. The Real Housewives of Camden, Maine : 1898-1900.

These rare and interesting vintage photographs by Charles Wilkes Babb (1863-1956) the...

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Obscurity

“Visions, delirium and nightmares!” The truly epic fails of Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), iconic photographer of the Antarctic and the first and only pioneer of “distortography”.

Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) is best known expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert...

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Art & Design Obscurity

A Late Middle Ages fashion show. The lost and found ten weepers from the tomb of Isabella of Bourbon c. 1475.

Isabella of Bourbon, wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy died,...

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Art & Design History

1944’s “Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander Belt” by cartographer Harold Fisk makes the Mississippi River move.

"Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander Belt" is a series of maps created...

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Nature

Man vs. Barkbeetle, enemy of California Forests. 1919-1934.

These photographs & captions are from a hand-colored photo album called “Barkbeetle...

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Nature

Shaffrons.

The shaffron (also spelled chaffron, champion, chamfron, chamfrein, champron, and chanfron) was designed to protect a horse’s face. Sometimes they...

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Art & Design History

1950s Tibet in hand-tinted technicolor & old school black and white. Courtesy of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army propaganda dept.

Selected 1950s imagery from two Chinese government (propaganda) pamphlets on Tibet, Xizang...

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Art & Design History Travel

“Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,” 1844, by the East London architect, artist & original tomb raider, Frederick Catherwood.

One day in 1839, two explorers – an East Londoner, Frederick Catherwood, and...

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Art & Design History Travel

Colour plates from 1820s India, “Views in the Himalaya Mountains,” by James Baillie Fraser.

In the early nineteenth century, British consumers increasingly demanded representations of foreign...

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Art & Design History

“The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times – illustrated by borders, initial letters, and alphabets”, 1860. 6th – 16th Century letterforms by the British architect Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt.

The extremely prolific English architect,Digby Wyatt was the younger brother of another,...

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Art & Design

All Hail Satan! A French foodie and an Italian Art Nouveau artist collaborate to bring us an unlikely artistic tour de force. Orazi Manuel’s Calendrier magique of 1896.

The obscure art nouveau illustrator, Emmanuel Joseph Raphaël Orazi, known as Manuel Orazi,...

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Art & Design

Helene Schjerfbeck began as a precociously skilled, slightly melancholic late-19th-century academic realist. She finished as a painter whose sublime abstract images are an exquisite harmony of pure paint and cryptic description.

“I have to draw to the point of madness, just draw. Just work, work and think of nothing else”, said the brilliant Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It did him no good, he was just another “degenerate” artist to the Nazis.

From hat shop girl to Dutch art icon. But who was the Girl in the Kimono? The opaque story of an 1890s working class teenager immortalised by George Hendrik Breitner.

Descendant of samurai and relentless entrepreneur, Ogawa Kazumasa opened Tokyo’s first photo studio, shot Japan’s art treasures, the 100 prettiest geisha in Tokyo and taught photography to the military. His legacy is these exquisite images of flowers.

L’Estampe Moderne; the 1890s Parisian Art Nouveau “best of” album feat. various international artists. 4 lithographs every month. Just 3₣r 50c an issue.

It’s easy to see how, in the mid 1800s, Paul Gustave Doré “hypnotized the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator”. Even Van Gogh was a fan, he copied Doré shortly before shooting himself.

In the 1890s the Dutch painter, George Hendrik Breitner took nude reference photos for his paintings. In the 1990s they were found.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. 1880s free love messiah, naturist, pacifist, vegetarian, sun worshipper and unique symbolist painter.

Found photos : Three lost decades of Iowa Speedway recovered. With Merlin Benning, Lester “Red” Dralle. Claus Stricker, Don & Dick Feckers & Red Droste. 1950>1970.

The Art of Protest: Albert Hahn was righteous anger manifest. A graphic character assassin that even the mighty Germany Kaiser feared.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

The 1920s French Art Deco influencer who drew pure design inspiration from the natural world. Insectes (1929) by Émile-Allain Séguy.

The forgotten Finska Vyer birch bark album, by I.K Inha, 1892. Inside are raw natural landscape photographs of Finland. It won the 1st international photographic competion in Paris.

William Morris. Strawberry Thief . “You can picture my Father going out in the early morning and watching the rascally thrushes at work on the fruit beds…”

The Swiss artist, Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956). A Princess helped him give up the life of a farmer to put his faith and future in the hands of the flower fairies. He lived magically ever after.

Painter & early street photographer. The astonishing early street photography that helped George Hendrik Breitner add social realism to his famous paintings of Amsterdam.

India mid-1800s : Dr John Murray, cholera specialist an photographer. He spent 40 years travelling with gear weighing 400 pounds and a servant. His ever so slightly psychedelic negatives made it all worth it.

Samarkand, early 1900s. The first ever colour photographs of the ancient Persian city by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an unknown Russian who invented his own colour photography process.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

Around the world with the rare travel drawings by the American painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Found in the archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Cutting and rickling reeds, shooting snipe and fishing for Pike, catching eels and quanting the marsh. The Norfolk Broads in the mid-1800s as seen thru’ the gentle lens of naturalist, photographer & ex-physician, Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936).

Tight corsets, outrageous bustles, picnics, hiking & tea. The Real Housewives of Camden, Maine : 1898-1900.

“Visions, delirium and nightmares!” The truly epic fails of Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), iconic photographer of the Antarctic and the first and only pioneer of “distortography”.

A Late Middle Ages fashion show. The lost and found ten weepers from the tomb of Isabella of Bourbon c. 1475.

1944’s “Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander Belt” by cartographer Harold Fisk makes the Mississippi River move.

Man vs. Barkbeetle, enemy of California Forests. 1919-1934.

Shaffrons.

1950s Tibet in hand-tinted technicolor & old school black and white. Courtesy of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army propaganda dept.

“Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,” 1844, by the East London architect, artist & original tomb raider, Frederick Catherwood.

Colour plates from 1820s India, “Views in the Himalaya Mountains,” by James Baillie Fraser.

“The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times – illustrated by borders, initial letters, and alphabets”, 1860. 6th – 16th Century letterforms by the British architect Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt.

All Hail Satan! A French foodie and an Italian Art Nouveau artist collaborate to bring us an unlikely artistic tour de force. Orazi Manuel’s Calendrier magique of 1896.