Platinum Age

wahnwitzig:

Festschrift zum Deutschen tag (1902)

[Commemorative publication of the united German societies of the city of New York, in relation to German Day, on Sunday, 9 November 1902, in Madison Square Garden, New York City.]

natgeofound:

A bull riding cowboy holds tight as the bull lunges airborne, Oregon, 1916.
Photograph by Miller Photo Co., National Geographic

speciesbarocus:

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky - Alexander-Svirsky Monastery (1909).

what-floats-my-boat:

1879 title page
(via sheaff ephemera)

(via vintascope)

catalogue9:

phenakistoscope, invented by Joseph Plateau in 1841.

hrevival:

geisterseher:

R.M. Ballantyne, The lighthouse: the story of a great fight between man and the sea (1900)

War Without and Peace Within - Page 366 (Click on image)

~H

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my-little-time-machine:

Looking up Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, ca. 1917

(via beautifulcentury)

phantomeyesandsummerskies:

Illustration by Gustave Doré the Divine Comedy; il Paradiso The celestial spheres of Heaven (original translated text: snowy rose of Heaven)

1867. Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883)

poundoflogic:

Beginning in 1848, the Gold Rush brought approximately 300,000 people to California, especially San Francisco.