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Flu Masks From 1918-1919

Flu Masks From 1918-1919

In 1918, influenza, the so-called Spanish Flu, or 91918H1N1, to give its proper name, claimed the lives of more than 50 million people in just 15 months. Masks were part of the drive to beat it ...
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Gustave Gain’s Color Autochromes Bring The Past To Life

Gustave Gain’s Color Autochromes Bring The Past To Life

  In the early 20th Century, French photographer Gustave Gain (1876-1945) took pictures of his ...
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Sensational and Exploitative Autochromes by Franklin Price Knott (c. 1916)

Sensational and Exploitative Autochromes by Franklin Price Knott (c. 1916)

Franklin Price Knott (1854 - 1930) is remembered for taking some of the first color images to appear in National Geographic magazine. ...
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The First Colour Photographs of Ireland – 1913

The First Colour Photographs of Ireland – 1913

The 73 autochromes of Ireland that French academics Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon took in May and June 1913 are the first colour photographs of the island ...
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Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century

Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century

Prostitutes, killers, cocaine finds and 'the most evil woman in Sydney' ...
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Me My Dog And I: 30 Lovely Vintage Jack Russell Photographs

Me My Dog And I: 30 Lovely Vintage Jack Russell Photographs

“I am because my little dog knows me” - Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons / Objects, 1915 ...
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Rare Color Photos from the German Front During World War I

Rare Color Photos from the German Front During World War I

Photography and modern warfare grew up, side by side, on battlefields, burial grounds, and in the trenches and ruined European cities of World War I. In France, German photographer Hans Hildenbrand took what are some of the few color photographs of the front lines. ...
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Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

His looks fascinated people and he became an iconic cult figure with horror buffs. ...
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1918H1N1 aka “Spanish Flu” – The Worst Pandemic of Them All

1918H1N1 aka “Spanish Flu” – The Worst Pandemic of Them All

It's been estimated that the Spanish Flu went on to kill more than 50 million people... ...
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Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and ...
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A Japanese Guide To Beating Killer Flu from 1918

A Japanese Guide To Beating Killer Flu from 1918

Spanish Flu hit Japan hard. Hundreds of thousands died. The government issued books and these posters to help people recognise and beat the virus ...
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Buy Prints Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Atget (1857-1927) wandered the streets of Paris dressed in a large black cloak and floppy hat, his camera slung on its tripod over his shoulder. He drifted until something triggered a response which he stopped to photograph. ...
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