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A LIFE LIKE THIS WOULD KILL ME! from “A Strange...

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:55:00 -0400

A LIFE LIKE THIS WOULD KILL ME!

from “A Strange Reunion” by T. G. Atkinson, as featured in The Strand Magazine Vol. 5, Issue 28, April 1893.

GOOD-BYE, OLD FELLOW. from “A Strange Reunion” by...

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:54:19 -0400

GOOD-BYE, OLD FELLOW.

from “A Strange Reunion” by T. G. Atkinson, as featured in The Strand Magazine Vol. 5, Issue 28, April 1893.

TWO MEN SAT BY A SMALL WOOD FIRE. from “A Strange...

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:53:04 -0400

TWO MEN SAT BY A SMALL WOOD FIRE.

from “A Strange Reunion” by T. G. Atkinson, as featured in The Strand Magazine Vol. 5, Issue 28, April 1893.

Charles Stewart Parnell. 1846-1891. Irish nationalist political...

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:07:00 -0400

Charles Stewart Parnell.
1846-1891. Irish nationalist political leader.

Parnell was one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and Great Britain and described by Prime Minister William Gladstone as the most remarkable person he had ever met. Another future Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in 150 years.

“Anti-Rent”

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:03:57 -0400

“Anti-Rent”

John Lawrence Sullivan (the “Boston Strong Boy”),...

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:27:48 -0400

John Lawrence Sullivan (the “Boston Strong Boy”), boxer.

BORN: October 15 1858; Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts
DIED: February 2 1918; Abingdon, Massachusetts
HEIGHT: 5-10 1/4 (Some sources report 5-10 1/2)
WEIGHT: 190-229 lbs

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Mervine Thompson, boxer.BORN: 1854; Washington, District of...

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:24:00 -0400

Mervine Thompson, boxer.

BORN: 1854; Washington, District of Columbia (Fought out of Cleveland, Ohio)
HEIGHT: 5-11 (Some sources report 6-2)
WEIGHT: 190-215 lbs

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(via scout)

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:52:57 -0400

(via scout)

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:19:25 -0400

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

from William C. King’s 1897 Portraits and Principles...

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:07:12 -0400

from William C. King’s 1897 Portraits and Principles of the World’s Great Men and Women.

from William C. King’s 1897 Portraits and Principles...

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:05:00 -0400

from William C. King’s 1897 Portraits and Principles of the World’s Great Men and Women.

Nikolaus Lenau. 1802-1850. Hungarian-Austrian...

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:47:48 -0500

Nikolaus Lenau.
1802-1850. Hungarian-Austrian poet.

Lenau’s fame rests mainly upon his shorter poems; even his epics are essentially lyric in quality. His poem “Herbst” expresses the sadness and melancholy he felt after his sojourn in the United States and his strenuous travels across the Atlantic to return to Europe. In it he mourns the loss of youth, the passing of time, and his own sense of futility. The poem is archetypal of Lenau’s style and culminates with the speaker dreaming of death as a final escape from emptiness. He is the greatest modern lyric poet of Austria, and the typical representative in German literature of that pessimistic Weltschmerz which, beginning with Lord Byron, reached its culmination in the poetry of Giacomo Leopardi.

Crescent Athletic Club of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, 1892.

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:35:09 -0500

Crescent Athletic Club of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, 1892.

fauxchenaux:msbojangles.

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:00:11 -0500

fauxchenaux:msbojangles.

Thomas Staton Brown and his sons, taken in 1869 in Arkansas. ...

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:52:30 -0500

Thomas Staton Brown and his sons, taken in 1869 in Arkansas. Clockwise from left: George Washington, Thomas Staton, Isaac Neely, James McCloud, and Marion.

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A Mr. Bins, working on his brother’s sheep ranch near The...

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:51:29 -0500

A Mr. Bins, working on his brother’s sheep ranch near The Dalles, Oregon.

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Taken in Reno, Nevada, ca. 1901-1903. The man on the left is...

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:49:29 -0500

Taken in Reno, Nevada, ca. 1901-1903. The man on the left is identified on the back as Alec Smith, the man in the middle, Edward Everett Allen, and the man on the right is identified on the back as Newton Becklis.

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Henry Rose circa late 1800s near Agra, Kansas. source.

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:42:00 -0500

Henry Rose circa late 1800s near Agra, Kansas.

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A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE OFFICERS Lieut. (afterwards Col.) Garnett...

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:49:48 -0500

A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE OFFICERS
Lieut. (afterwards Col.) Garnett Andrews, 1863
Capt. Henry Irwin, 1863
Dr. Henry F. Andrews, 1864
Gen. Arnold Elzey, 1865

The 1850s in men’s fashion. A new style, the sack coat,...

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:43:00 -0500

The 1850s in men’s fashion.

A new style, the sack coat, loosely fitted and reaching to mid-thigh, was fashionable for leisure activities; it would gradually replace the frock coat over the next forty years and become the modern suit coat.