Anne Brigman photography

Anne Wardrope (Nott) Brigman (1869–1950) was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America. Her most famous images were taken between 1900 and 1920, and depict nude women in primordial, naturalistic contexts. [Wikipedia]

The Heart of the Storm

The Source, 1907

Storm Tree, 1915

Dawn

Finis

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Ireland in Color Pictures, 1920s

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Agatha Christie and her surf board, 1922

‘Agatha Christie on Waikiki beach, Hawaii, 1922. She was travelling with her first husband, Archie, and mastered stand-up surfing, becoming one of the earliest Britons known to do so.’

Autochromes from 1910s

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Interesting black and white retro photos

These are some rather interesting black and white retro photos. The people and the scenes are quite unusual at least by today’s standards.

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Votes for Women, 1911

Old Japan in 3D

These animated images are taken from original stereoscopic photographs by T. Enami, and were animated from images posted by Okinawa Soba. The images date from about 1895 to about 1910.

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Paris, 1940s

Color photography of America in years before World War II [more...]

Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative. Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

African American’s tenant’s home beside the Mississippi River levee. Near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

A crossroads store, bar, “juke joint,” and gas station in the cotton plantation area. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Boys fishing in a bayou. Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Fish saler. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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Costume and Dress

Mr & Mrs Lawrence Tibbett arrive in Sydney, 1938

Helen Twelvetrees during the making of Thoroughbred, Sydney, 1936

Arrival of Fuller-Gonsalez Opera Company with hands raised in fascist salute, Sydney, March 1928

Marcelle Boivin, Balmain, Sydney, ca. 1929

Wedding of Donald Bradman to Jessie Menzies, Burwood, Sydney, 1932

Mrs Hare ca. 1874-1908

McNamara-Claire wedding, Bankstown, Sydney, 1936

Mills wedding, Scots' Church, Sydney, 1940

Csergo wedding, Sydney, February 1952

Wedding, Sydney, in the 1920s

Riley wedding ca 1940 -1945

Women's dressing room, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1930's

Woman war worker, 1944

Debutantes, Sydney, 1930's

Wedding tableau, Sydney, ca. 1930

Milky Way (dairy) exhibition, Sydney Town Hall, 12 August 1955

Young boy with dinky in car workshop while his father services a car, Bondi, 6 October 1955

Young male surfers (The Pier Club Mob) tease Alf Bait Gould about his backless swimsuit (a gift from his girlfriend), Bondi Beach, 10 October 1932

Women in bathing suits on Collaroy Beach, 1908

Country week tennis, 5 January 1937

Second Test, Sydney, 1936

Ingenues arrive, Central Station, Sydney, c. 1920s

Grace Bros mannequin parade, Sydney, November 1936

Musical comedy star Dorothy Brunton reading Sid Nicholl's Fashion-plate Fanny in the children's section of The Sun newspaper with a small boy at St. Margaret's Hospital, Sydney, January 1925

Australia’s first women Olympians, Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, 1912