After the Bath, 19th Century
‘After the Bath’ by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) 19th century
Month: December 2018
Drying Harvest, 1969
Man inspects a drying cannabis harvest, Lebanon 1969
Kago Bearers Light Up, 1860
Kago Bearers light up kiseru pipes on a break from carrying a woman traveling in a Kago or hanging chair. Hand Colored Albumen Photograph, Japan 1860
Grapes of Wrath
Capt. Rufus D. Pettit’s Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery, taken during McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign in Fort Richardson, Fair Oaks, Virginia 1862 Grapes of Wrath At the height of battle when all seemed lost facing an overwhelming advancing force, Read More …
It Takes a Village, 1940’s
Hemp Harvest, Italy 1940’s Notice that men, women and children were all involved in the hemp harvest… Family!
The Cut Flower Trade, 1885
‘The Cut Flower Trade’ illustration from The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade, in 1885
Greek Party Girls, 1910
Three nude women smoke a waterpipe while dancing and playing music, Greek postcard, around 1910