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19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

In September 1859 Edinburgh-born William Carrick opened a studio in St Petersburg. With John MacGregor, Carrick produced portraits of locals he called 'Russian Types', sold as cartes-de-visite to tourists. ...

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The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

Ponting, who died in 1935, is best known for photographing Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole in 1911/12 ...

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Extraordinary Portraits of Bedouins By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898

At the very end of the 19th century the American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service), took these pictures of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem. ...

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To Kay From Warren, Ohio – And Other Stars of A Great 1960s Yearbook

Nigel Maister opens up a glorious found yearbook from 1961 ...

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Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Catching up with the orphans whose plight horrified the world ...

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A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

Photographs of miners going to work and at the coal face ...

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E. J. Bellocq’s Surviving Storyville Photographs Circa 1912

Wonderful portraits of prostitutes in America's first red-light district ...

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Incredibly Stylish Mugshots From The 1920s

These mugshot portraits - we'd call them pictures but their style demands more - are part of 2500 "special photographs" taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930 ...

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The Story of Poor Robert McGee : Scalped in 1864

'Young McGee' tells the story of how he came to scalped and live in the 'Indian Wars' ...

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South Wales in The 1970s

Wonderful pictures of South Wales during the 1970s when Robin Weaver worked for a local newspaper ...

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A Visual Tour of Brassaï’s Paris – 1930s

“I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my ...

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Portraits of 19th Century Baseball Players (Boston ca. 1890)

G.E. Gray's terrific studio portraits of baseball stars taken at his Boston studio ...

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