Kicking off the Christmas, Yule, and Hanukkah season with this gem from the early 1950s of my mom at her first visit to Santa Claus when she was either two or three (she doesn't remember which so it's either 1952 or '53).
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Thomson-TheLandAndTheBook/pages/431-nazareth/
Today Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern district if what is now called Israel. Bible scholars also consider Nazareth to have been the likeliest birthplace of Jesus.
Maybe another #duotone or maybe pure brown #lithograph (thereβs some black in there, though)
#GIMP made quick work of this one, printed on smoother calendered paper in 1894.
#biblicalScenes #fobo #vintagePhotograph #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #vintagePhotography #palestine
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The unusual feature of this locomotive is the single huge driving wheel. Physics suggests this would allow high speed working, and indeed the engine pulled passenger trains at 70mph or more.
#vintagePhotograph #fobo #blackAndWhite #blackAndWhitePhotography #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #railway #steamEngine #locomotive #raiload #engine #steam
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/v2s2-000-frontispiece-llanthony-priory/
A photograph of the ruins of Llanthony Abbey published in 1905 using a proprietary photogravure process from the Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Co.
The abbey ws built around 1200CE by Augustinian monks, and closed at the Dissolution by King Henry VIII; it was abandoned, and eventually used as a farm.
#romanticRuin #fromOldBooks #vintagePhotograph #sepia #stoneBuilding #llanthonyPriory #HondduValley #Wales #Cymru #Welsh
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Llanthony Priory, Vally of the Honddu, Wales, UK, from a 1905 photograph.
The priory was built around 1200 by Augustinian monks, but was closed at the Dissolution in the 16th century, and fell into a ruin; it was partly reused as a farm.
Process: Rembrandt Photogravure.
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/v2s2-000-frontispiece-llanthony-priory/
#ruins #abbey #priory #llanthony #llanthonyPriory #Welsh #wales #vintagePhotograph #hills #cows #romanticRuin #fromOldBooks
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ridpath-GreatRacesOfMankind-Vol3/pages/200-land-of-the-semites/
Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan. From John Ridpathβs 1893 βGreat Races of Mankindβ. Described in the text as showing Palestine.
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"πππππ πππ πππππππ ππππππ πππππ πππ", Colorized heirloom portrait from Northeast Tennessee, ca1880... Prints available at https://buff.ly/4enYrpk
#portrait #civilwar #man #colorized #portrait #sheliahuntphotography #restored #blue #sullivancounty #tennessee #northeasttennessee #captain #csa #vintage #vintagephotography #vintagestyle #vintagephotos #photooftheday #antiquephoto #vintagephotograph #vintageclothing #retrophotography #picoftheday
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Stoddard-Portfolio/pages/107-nazareth-palestine/
A photograph captioned βNazareth, Palestineβ and published in 1894
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Pearl Goals
Rudolph Valentino in the 1921 film "The Sheik"
#pearls #rudolphvalentino #1921 #1920s #silentfilm #ropesofpearls #vintagephotograph #gayhistory
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Cat on Legs,
~ Michael Wolgensinger c1940s -
Anna Bertha Ludwig RΓΆntgen's Hand mit Ringen (Hand with Rings): a print of one of the first ever X-rays by Wilhelm RΓΆntgen.
22 December 1895 -
Nathan Lerner Girl with two faces 1932
