nautical
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Just don’t drop it in the shower…
1900 Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap Advert; for preservation of health
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Robert Smalls, who escaped with the whole crew and their families from the South and slavery during the US Civil War by piloting and stealing a Confederate transport ship, the Planter steamer ship – then convinced Lincoln that African American should be allowed to serve, then lead a life as a captain and a politician. An amazing life under extreme conditions 😀
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Jacques Henri Lartigue – also like Atget (posted on my other blog) is always welcome. If you don’t know Lartigue’s amazing and somehow surreal work, check him out. It’s magical.
Actually is this a portrait? It is of sorts…how my self given restrictions cause me dilemmas sometimes! This is what they call an environmental portrait, not because it’s outside but it shows the person in their environment…then again portraits don’t usually have their back to you! Oh those categories, they is blurring…
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Captain Cuninghame, 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, Crimea 1855.
You are looking at photographical history, Roger Fenton’s pictures of the Crimea basically invented and proved the use of war photography.
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A “Tough” Dance 1902 eith Kid Foley and Sailor Lil. (by LibraryOfCongress)
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Captain William C. Thompson via LOC
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A Captain, Russian navy 1893
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Transatlantic steamship captain
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More Captain Edward John Smith.
I’m reading 1912 Facts about the Titanic which I heartily recommend, it’s a good read – loads of human stories including of the ‘little people’ which a lot of the accounts tend to focus on the Astors and Guggenheims and Strausses.
I also bought a replica of the 3rd Class White Star Line coffee cup, which is as camp as hell but lovely.
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In happier times
9th June 1911: Captain John Smith (1850 – 1912) and Lord James Pirrie, Chairman of the Harland & Wolff Shipyard, on the deck of the White Star Liner ‘Olympic’.