Tag Archive for '19th Century'

Vintage Photo Album: Things That Make Me Smile

Snake Charmer

Ah! Being covered with snakes. It can never last long enough. Especially when one or two of them bite. Auction Here (Ends When it Ends)

Magic Wand

Millions of Tinkerbells. Millions of them. Auction Here (Ends 1/3/12)

Spiritualist 1875

That chilling, fleeting feeling of something alien looming up behind you. Auction Here (Already ended, alas)

Inexplicable exchanges. Auction Here (Ends 1/5/12)

Vampiric potted plants on leaning furniture. Auction Here (Ends When it Ends)

Deadly ingenues worrying as they wait for their plot to bear fruit. Auction Here (Ends 1/19/12)

Drowning in vines. Auction Here (Ends When it Ends)

Contemplating the void. Auction Here (Ends 1/2/12)

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Vintage Photo Album: Mysterious Bruise Edition

If you wake up in a strange place, can’t remember how you got there, and have mysterious bruises in unusual spots, you may need to make sure that your maid hasn’t been trying to poison you. (How perceptive of you. Yes that is Pola Negri in the chair.) – Action Here. – Ends When it Ends.

If you wake up chained to a table in a cell, can’t remember how you got there, and have mysterious bruises in alarming places, it may be that you forgot to pay your guild dues to that hashish-using band of murderous thugs you belong to. – Action Here. – Ends 1/18/2012

If you wake up hanging in a tree, can’t remember how you got there, and have mysterious bruises all over your body, it may be that you chose to collect butterflies on the wrong planet. – Action Here. – Ends 1/11/2012

If you wake up huddled in your closet, can’t remember how you got there, and have mysterious bruises all over your head, it may be that you lost control to the voices that you hear between stations on your radio set. – Action Here. – Ends When it Ends

If you wake up in the parlor, can’t remember the last few hours, have mysterious bruises on your arms and legs, and every window and mirror in the room is shattered, you may want to stop entertaining that mysteriously charismatic little girl who claims she can speak to the spirit world. – Action Here. – Ends 12/24/2011


If you wake up on the floor, can’t remember how you fell out of bed, and your neck is covered with mysterious bruises, that dimly remembered vision you had of a giant cat creeping into your room and looming over the end of your bed might not have been a dream. – Action Here. – Ends When it Ends

Epilogue

I don’t have a story for these. I just wanted to post them because they’re really remarkable. Photos from an opera house in Chicago from 1891. The photos say W.V. PENNINGTON CHICAGO E.R. WALKER across the bottom.


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And Finally

If I don’t post before then, I want to wish everyone out there on the internets a dark and short Darkest Day.

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Vintage Photo Album: Here is Your Disguise Part II

This is your disguise to infiltrate the retinue of the mad vizer Halit Ali Mustafa. To be successful in this disguise, you must be able to traverse this room without touching the floor. (Auction Here – Ends 12/6)

This is your disguise for wrestling the legendary Kolkov’s stratagem from Dr. Leonid Morrow, who refuses to play with human beings in order to keep it secret. (Auction Here – Ends 12/7)

This is your disguise to hide among the graceful but horribly violent tinsel tree people of Beta Centuari. (Auction Here – Ends 12/7)

This is your disguise to penetrate the fortress of Dr. Yen Wan and assassinate the British turncoat, Sir Julian Wimplebottom. (Auction Here – Ends 12/28)

This is your disguise to impersonate famed tattooed lady Artoria Gibbons. (Auction Here – Ends 12/28)

Vintage Photo Album: Here is Your Disguise

Golden Ladies 1936

This is your disguise for an adventure on The Planet of the Deadly Golden Amazons. (Auction Here – Ends 12/7)

This is your disguise for your trip to the land of vampiric velvet furniture. (Auction Here – Ends 11/26)

Here is your disguise for the Russian leg of your race around the world in eighty days, circa 1890. (Auction Here – Ends 12/2)

Here is your disguise for infiltrating the warren of the Spoon Brides. Beware! (Auction Here – Ends 12/4)

This is your disguise and only hope for survival on the island of singing bellhops. (Auction Here – Ends 12/6)

This is your disguise for living among the polar werebears of Manchuria. Don’t forget to smear your face with seal blubber before disembarking. (Auction Here – Ends 12/6)

This is Valeska Suratt. Valeska Suratt! Please examine the furniture and don’t miss the busts and figures in the background. (Auction Here – Ends 12/4)

Vintage Photo Album: The Candelabra

This week I’ve got a concentrated concoction of vintage photo goodness for everyone here. I should mention, very quickly, that I’ve fallen in love with a mysterious dancer from this period, Desiree Lubovska, and have started a sub-blog right here to chronicle things I’ve found about her. It’s been slow going because October is coming, but I’m working on it!

First up are Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt from the great 1921 film by Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (IMDB entry here), which remains one of my favorite films of all time. I love this movie! It can be viewed in full, here. As with other great silent films, memorabilia from this movie is not cheap. – Auction Here – Ends 9/29

I don’t know what it is, but these two tintypes remind me of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Auction Here Ends 9/29

1920s Leda and the Swan

A modernist Leda knits a swan while listening to the radio. If that’s not a swan she knitting, I want to know what it is. Such a kooky photo. No auction here.

Martha Pierre as Candlelight by Alfred Cheney Johnston, dated 1921. I refuse to believe that anyone can be named Martha Pierre. That’s like being named Meg Ian or Enid Mohammed. Harriet Oskar. Irene Hans. Beatrice Giuseppe. Mabel Ivan. Mmmmm. Tasty dissonance. What was I talking about? This photo is the very zenith. Auction Here Ends 10/5

The flying monkeys let our technician out for a minute and he snuck away into the light of day. Thanks for your patience during this difficult transition.
I ated Tinkerbell.

Fhtagn Spoken Here.

... the attic, a vast raftered length lighted only by small blinking windows in the gable ends, and filled with a massed wreckage of chests, chairs, and spinning-wheels which infinite years of deposit had shrouded and festooned into monstrous and hellish shapes.
The Shunned House
H.P. Lovecraft




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