liquidnight:

Annick Gérardin

From Paris entre chats

theforgottenfiles:

Eugène Delacroix by Félix Nadar, 1850s

As someone whose hair perpetually looks like it might have small animals nesting in it, I second this sentiment :(

chameleonpoet:

Also, this hair! So complex, if only I could…

sugarmeows:

Theda Bara as Cleopatra (hand-colored silver gelatin photograph, 1917) – Albert Witzel

The photograph is signed by the actress for silent film cowboy actor Tom Mix.

ohlookhistory:

Man in military dress and turban. ca. 1889 (some photographs later).  From an album of photographs from Burma, India, and Egypt.  

varietyinblack:

“Untitled”

Photograph, ca. 1890

Hugh Magnum 

mudwerks:

(via The Chicken and I: 1921 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive)

October 10, 1921. Charleston (vicinity), West Virginia. “Alice Curtis and some of her poultry.” Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

okhairy:

“Yours affectionately” … bearded seated man from Philadelphia (c. 1870s)

turnofthecentury:

liquidnight:Brothers Seeberger

Hôtel Lamoignon ou ancien hôtel d’Angoulême - cour intérieure

Paris, circa 1901-1925

[From the Réunion des Musées Nationaux]

No Way Like the American Way

by Margaret Bourke-White