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Oscar and Bosie
Oscare Wilde and Bosie cabinet cards. Surprising they were this open to the level of giving out cards to their friends or visitors.
Second one – cabinet photograph of Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Oxford, 1893, Collection of Mary, Viscountess Eccles – I suspect the former which is in the British Library is the same collection.
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Jan Werich
A regal shot of Jan Werich. 😉
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Albert Chavannes, Swiss-born American author, philosopher, and sociologist
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Fry: portrait of the social reformer Edward Carpenter.
And out queer man! Don’t forget that! Rather important for the time…
Not seen this portrait before, I’ve posted photos of him from later years on this tumblr.
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Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
- “We were together. I forget the rest.” Today is the birthday of poet Walt Whitman (1819 –1892), born in West Hills, Long Island, and raised in Brooklyn.
Great quote
I suspect I’ve posted this before, but Whitman is always worthy a repost.
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Wyndham Lewis: Portrait of the music critic Edwin Evans.
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar WildeI suspect this is hand coloured but there was also early colour photography. Don’t know why this picture took me by surprise then….possibly because I’m used to blurry B&W portraits and nothing as clean and clear as this?
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One half of a stereo photograph of Wilkie Collins 1874 by Napoleon Sarony