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Another image of Georges Ernest Boulanger.
OH HELLO.
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Georges Ernest Boulanger by Nadar.
Shot himself a few months after his mistress died, Marguerite Bonnemain which wikipedia tells us:
“ She became the lover of the French general and minister Boulanger and died in his arms in July 1891. At his request ‘A bientôt’ (‘See you soon’) was engraved on her tomb. Two months later he shot himself in front of her grave and ‘Ai-je bien pu vivre deux mois et demi sans toi?’ (‘Did I really live two and a half months without you?’) was added to the epitaph.“
Also rumoured to have frequented the infamous male brothel in Cleveland Street, London. He looks the naughty type.
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Portrait of a fireman posing with a fire axe by photographer
Andries Jager of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, c. 1800′s.Source: Rijksmuseum.
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Victorian tintype
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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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Vintage Handsome
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“I wear C.T. Smith’s shoes”. Anonymous photographer, USA, ca. 1900 / via lumiere des roses
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French portrait, by V. Pincon from Brest
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Carte de Visite photo by Yates & Oliver of Low Harrogate
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Haven’t done a sweep for CDVs (Carte de Visite) for literally years. CDVs were like business cards but with photos, there are so many of them from early years of photography, probably the only photographs of these individuals and quite often not marked who these people were, just the photographer.
This one is by E. R. Curtiss in Madison Wisconsin, circa 1870-90′s.