Lost Splendor
Lost Splendor


Lost Splendor

Findings of a Fire-Headed History Student. Twenty-One Years Young
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Arrow Collar: Illustrations by J.C Leyendecker, 1910s (via rompedas)

Corset X-Ray, 1908 (via Retronaut)
Floral Postcard, France c. 1900s via Personal Collection
By Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1915 (via Vintage et cancrelats)
Distillerie Italiane by Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1868-1944 (via Organic Forms and Whiplash Curves)
Studio Portrait of Couple from Parisian Studio, France, date unknown. (via Poppies Pressed)
“Studio Portrait of Two Soldiers, France, Estimated Date: 1914/1918.” (via Poppies Pressed)
“This is the True Alliance”, French Wartime Postcard, 1915 (via Poppies Pressed | Remembering the Great War in the Digital Age) “Poppies Pressed is a student created Division III project at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poppies Pressed aims to encourage the interpretation and accessibility of photographic media of the First World War in the digital age through the application of twenty-first century technologies to previously undigitized wartime media.”
“In a world before smart phones, this lady with a pile of luggage and a dog used time waiting at Waterloo Station to catch up on her social networking - by writing a letter” c. 1919 (via Telegraph)
Eton versus Harrow Cricket Match, 1914 (via Telegraph)
Ruth St. Denis, 1910 via The New York Public Library
Writing at desk in German dugout, c. WWI (by drakegoodman) At least you’re not doing your finals in a trench.
German Headwear of the First World War, 1914-1915, Musee de L’Armee (by drakegoodman)
Salem, Massachusetts, 1910 (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

The Very Model of a Modern Major General: French Picture Postcards titled “Women of the Future” c. Early 1900s (via Séries de 20 cartes)

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