Tuesday, December 29, 2009


Playing with the sun, ca 1975.
Photographer: Peter Raba, Germany

Dwarf.
Ca 1890.
Photographer: H. Schmuckler, Berlin.

Friday, December 25, 2009


Lourdes, France, ca 1900.
The Grotto.
Photographer unknown.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Base of Eiffel Tower, Paris, with view on Trocadero.
Ca 1890.
Photographer unknown.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Jacob Maris, famous Dutch painter.
Ca 1885.
Photographer: Maurits Verveer .

Saturday, December 12, 2009


2 Ladies with a cat.
Holland, ca 1890.
Photographer: J. Hennequin, Amsterdam

Tuesday, December 01, 2009


Nude girl with grapes.
Photographer: Marcel Meys, Paris, ca 1910.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009


Berlin Wall (Mauer), 1961.
View into Wilhelmstrasse, East Berlin.
Photographer unknown.

Saturday, November 07, 2009


Crowned Farah Pahlavi (Diba).
With son Reza and daughter Farahnaz.
Shiraz/Iran, 1967.
Photographer unknown.

Sunday, November 01, 2009


Nun showing doll to child.
(ca 1900, France).
Photographer unknown.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009


Chania Crete, 1897.
Massacre in Christian area.
Photographer unknown.

Saturday, October 24, 2009


Rubber tree, Florida USA, ca 1895.
Photographer unknown.

Sunday, October 18, 2009


Man riding a goat, 1890 (Initiation into fraternal group).
Photographer: Chas.v. Hamer, Columbus O, USA

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Dustin Hoffman & Willem de Kooning, NY 1983.

Photographer: Mary Ellen Mark

Friday, October 09, 2009


Bridge under construction (Moerdijk, Holland), 1871.
Photographer: Pieter Oosterhuis.

Monday, October 05, 2009


Fake Amazones, ca 1880.
Photographer: Koene & Büttinghausen, Batavia/Amsterdam.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Civil War reporter (USA), ca 1863.

Photographer: Timothy O'Sullivan

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Portrait (double-exposure), ca 1942.
Photographer: Horst P Horst (Germany)

Sunday, September 13, 2009

L'École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1865.
Photographer: Alexandre Ferrier (son of Claude-Marie Ferrier)

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Powerhouse mechanic, USA, ca 1925.
Photographer: Lewis Hine.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Sunlight in a forest.
Vintage photogravure, 1929.
Photographer: Leonard Misonne, Belgium.

Saturday, August 29, 2009


Nude with turban (ca 1925).
Photogravure.
Photographer: Dorothy Wilding, Great Britain.

Friday, August 28, 2009


Painter Peter vd Braken, ca 1923.
Photogravure.
Photographer: Henri Berssenbrugge (Holland).

Monday, August 24, 2009


The poet Oscar Wilde, ca 1882.
Photographer: Napoleon Sarony (USA)

Monday, August 17, 2009


Tiger shot by sultan of Medan-Deli, Sumatra, 1898.
Photographer: C. Kleingrothe.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Hopi Indian women, watching the dancers.
USA, ca 1907.
Photographer: Edward Curtis.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Sailingship "Ville du Havre", ca 1906, Rotterdam, Holland.
Photographer unknown.

Friday, August 07, 2009


Early backlight photo (Italy 1937).
Photographer unknown.

Sunday, August 02, 2009


Italian model (soft focus), ca 1937.
Photographer unknown.

Thursday, July 23, 2009


Rotterdam 1905. Loading a steamship.
Photographer unknown.

Saturday, July 18, 2009


First portrait photographed on the moon, July 20th 1969.
(Vintage photograph from Hasselblad negative).
Photographer: Neil Armstrong, USA.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Place de la Concorde, Paris, ca 1870.
Photographer: Francis Frith.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

The Trail, ca 1940.
Photographer: William M. Rittase (USA)

Saturday, July 04, 2009

" Mythological Echo", ca 1942.
Photographer: Rolf Tietgens, USA.
(Vintage photogravure)

Sunday, June 28, 2009


Dancer Flora Korb, ca 1929.
(Photogravure).
Photographer: Jozsef Pecsi, Budapest/Hungary.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009


"Belle of the ballrooom", ca 1945.
Photographer: Horst P. Horst, USA

Saturday, June 20, 2009


Experiment, ca 1960.
Photographer: Juergen Harry, Germany
Leni Riefenstahl, German actress/photographer/filmer, ca 1929.

Photographer: Willot, Berlin

Monday, June 08, 2009


Ballplayers (unknown ballplay), Zeeland, Holland, ca 1900.
Photographer: S.R. Elsinga, Goes

Delessart (artist), 1879.
Photographer: "Nadar" (Gaspar-Félix Tournachon), Paris.

Monday, June 01, 2009


"Best Wishes for 1981" (contact print).
Photographer: Paul de Nooijer, Holland.

William Gladstone, British statesman, ca 1865.
Photographer: Henry Whitlock, Birmingham.

New York, ca 1935.
Photographer: P. Ingemann Lekaer

Thursday, May 28, 2009


Algerian woman (ca 1890).
Biskra (Ouled-Naïls).
Photographer unknown.

Thursday, May 21, 2009


Fashion photo, ca 1950 (USA).
Photographer: Ewing Galloway.

Monday, May 18, 2009



Pestum (Paestum), Italy, ca 1885.

Photographer: Gaetano Pedo, Roma

Tuesday, May 12, 2009



Claude Achille Debussy, French composer, ca 1900.

Photographer unknown ("Otto").

Monday, May 04, 2009



I.O.O.F., National Lodge No 509, Columbus Ohio, ca 1890.

Photographer: Baker's Art Gallery, Columbus.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009



Cadwallader C. Washburn, Union General, ca 1870.

(Vintage albumen photograph).

Photographer: Mathew Brady, Washington, USA.