Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments while studying science, circa 1890s.
La Conversazione (The Conversation) by Federico Zandomeneghi oil on canvas 1895
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He locked himself in a tower, read ancient authors, fed birds on the terrace. / For only in this way could he forget about / having to know himself.
Czesław Miłosz, from Bells in Winter: Poems; “Portrait” (via la-femme-terrible)
Leonid Sobinov as Lensky in the opera Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Theater, Russia — January 13th,1900
Late Victorian mountaineers, including a lady fully dressed and corseted, cross a crevasse in the Alps, 1900 (from Getty Images’ book “Decades of the 20th Century—1900s” by Nick Yapp, scanned by WeirdVintage)
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