Old portrait photography

Tribute to Julia Margaret Cameron. .....Early postcard depicting her work. .....Julia Margaret Cameron ( 1815 - 1879 ) was born in Calcutta, and in 1848 she moved to London. ..........In 1863, when Julia was 48 years old, her daughter gave her a camera as a present. Within a year she was elected a member of the photographic society in London. .....She strove to capture beauty and became obsessive about her new occupation, with subjects sitting for countless exposures in blinding light as she…

Vintage post cards and erotica from the turn of the century.

Every glimpse of the past that we see is a chance for our imaginations to take off on a wild time-warp journey. The beautiful vintage photos of the past gathered by this amazing Facebook page also promise to take you on a journey across time and space.

Beautiful Victorian Young Lady. Personal collection of Luella aka Paris Frances

Ye Rose Studio, Providence, photographer

Edna Waugh (1879-1979) British artist, illustrator and poet born 29 July 1879 in Shipbourne, Kent to parents; Congregational Minister, Benjamin Waugh (1839-1908) and Sarah Elizabeth Boothroyd (1839-1932). She married barrister Sir William Clarke Hall (1867-1932) in 1898. Their sons were Justin James Clarke Hall (1905-1983) and Denis Lucian Clarke Hall (1910-2006). She died at The Great House, Upminster, Essex, England on 16 November 1979 aged 100. additional information: Edna Waugh studied…

Stella Bloch, by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, 1920

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon). Eugène Pelletan. 1856-59. Salted paper print from a glass negative. 9 3/8 × 6 3/4" (23.8 × 17.3 cm) (irregular). Gift of Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr. 111.1985. Photography

Swedish sculptor and archaeologist Oscar Nilsson hand-sculpted a series of faces using excavated bones as a reference.