Historical Indulgences

ca. 1850, [two young gentlemen]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art

ca. 1860, “Hard Times”, Oscar Gustav Rejlander

via the National Media Museum, Royal Photographic Society

ca. 1888/93, Department of Anatomy at Cambridge University

via the Wellcome Collection

ca. 1899, [steam?] plow during the Blizzard of ‘99

via the Museum of the City of New York, Byron Company Collection

ca. 1903, “Looping the Loop [on a bicycle]”

via the Library of Congress

If you’re interested in watching turn of the century gentlemen performing tricks on their fixies, here’s a youtube video of a few.

ca. 1845, “Newhaven Fishermen: Alexander Rutherford, William Ramsay and John Liston”, David Octavius Hill, salt print

via the National Media Museum, Royal Photographic Society

“Aunt Mint Bear + Pearl Talle”

via DepthandTime’s Photostream

ca. 1905, Physical Culture Society of Montreal

via the Wellcome Collection

ca. 1854, ‘The Garden Chair’, Henry White

via the National Media Museum, Royal Photographic Society

ca. 1860, “California News”, Gabriel Harrison

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection

ca. 1893, “Bear Hunters of the North-West—Big Game”, photograph by George Barker, Underwood & Underwood publishers

via DepthandTime’s Photostream

ca. 1906, “Vallecita’s Leopard”

via the Library of Congress

ca. 1865, [General U. S. Grant wearing a mourning ribbon in honor of President Lincoln]

via Frohne & Son Historic Military

ca. 1889-93, [President Benjamin Harrison with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, et al. possibly on the deck of the Frenchman’s Bay steamer Sappho in Maine]

via the Library of Congress

[General Ulysses S. Grant photographed Before and After the Battle of Vicksburg]

via Miller, Francis Trevelyan and Robert S. Lanier, “The Photographic History of the Civil War”, 1911