A young Kenyan woman holds her pet deer in Mombasa, March 1909. Underwood and Underwood. | National Geographic
Adolf Dittmer :: Cliff House, San Francisco, with Mrs. Dittmer on Beach, March 7, 1905. Gelatin silver print. | src University of Arizona - CCP
Men at Glacier point
Overhanging Rock. At Glacier Point [Yosemite Valley]. 287. [Photograph by George Fiske.] 1890s | src OAC · Calisphere
A man and his dog on the Overhanging Rock in Yosemite National Park, May 1924 | src National Geographic
Original title: Nearly a mile straight down and only a step–from Glacier Point (N.W.) across valley to Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, Cal. [Description: Woman standing on cliff overlooking deep valley.]. Underwood & Underwood, publishers, New York, ca. 1902. Photographic print on stereo card; stereograph (half stereo). | src L.of Congress
George Fiske :: Two women standing out on the rock are holding hands and doing a high kick to the left. Albumen print mounted on grey/green board. View of Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point. In ink on verso: Dancers on Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point’. Photographer’s stamp on center of back of mount “Geo. Fiske, Photo. Yosemite Valley, Cal.” | src NPS / YOSE 5252
George Fiske :: Two women doing a “skirt dance” on the precarious Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, 1900-1902. Glass negative. | src USC
George Fiske :: Kitty Tatch and Katherine Hazelston [waitresses in a nearby hotel, the Yosemite’s Sentinel] in their famous cliff-edge dance. Late 1890s. | src NPS
Charles C. Pierce (1861-1946) :: Two people on Glacier Point, three thousand two hundred feet above the Merced River in Yosemite Valley, 1900-1910 | USC
Charles C. Pierce (1861-1946) :: Woman (Miss Loomis?) standing on the precarious Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, 1900-1902 | USC Libraries
related post of the same spot, here
Happy Caturday!
Norman Herfort :: Kitten, on wire mesh door, 19 March 1937 / State Library of NSW
Allan Grant for Life Magazine, 1951 (cat eating corn)
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Charles C. Pierce ~ Specimen of a canna flower, ca. 1920 | USC
Photograph of a specimen of a canna flower, ca.1920. Long, dry leaves cup around the stem at the bottom just below the blossom at center. The wide, circular petals are spotted and curl away from the lightly-colored pistol. Thin, pointed leaves cluster like spikes above the blossom at the top of the plant.
flower Friday
Fred G. Korth ~ Chrysanthemum. Published in Camera Craft, March 1936 (vol. 43) | src internet archive
flower Friday
1 . Tsunekichi Imai :: ‘Storm’ at Cliff House, San Francisco, 1901 / src: cliff house project
2. The Cliff House, San Francisco, California, ca. 1901 (Photocrom) no. 53900 Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co. | Yale University Library
3. Old Cliff house at night | src cliff house project
more [+] posts about the Cliff House in this blog
Postcard featuring a girl at the beach with the Victorian Cliff House (San Francisco) before the fire of 1907 | src cliff-house-project
it will not be simple, it will not be long it will take little time, it will take all your thought it will take all your heart, it will take all your breath it will be short, it will not be simple it will touch through your ribs, it will take all your heart it will not be long, it will occupy your thought […] it will be short, it will take all your breath it will not be simple, it will become your will Adrienne Rich (Final Notations)
The Old Cliff House, San Francisco, CA, 1890s-1900s. Unknown amateur photographer | original source
more [+++] Cliff House posts
Strand-Hotel “Cliff House”. S 24162. Stereo-card. The Cliff House, between 1896-1907, before the fire of September 7, 1907
more [+++] Cliff House posts
Charles C. Pierce ~ Specimen of a canna flower, ca. 1920 | USC
Photograph of a specimen of a canna flower, ca.1920. Long, dry leaves cup around the stem at the bottom just below the blossom at center. The wide, circular petals are spotted and curl away from the lightly-colored pistol. Thin, pointed leaves cluster like spikes above the blossom at the top of the plant.
Fred G. Korth ~ Chrysanthemum. Published in Camera Craft, March 1936 (vol. 43) | src internet archive
The Pier at Arverne by Struss
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: On the Pier. (Late Afternoon, Arverne), 1909. Platinum print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: The Pier, Arverne Moonlight, 1909. Gum platinum print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: [Reflections and moonlight, Arverne, Long Island], 1910. Platinum print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Arthur C. Pillsbury's balloon “The Fairy”. With it, Pillsbury started to experiment with aerial photography. Published in “Camera Craft” , Vol 17, March 1910. | src internet archive
Berlin window, Germany, 1940 | source: unexpectedtales on flickr
Arthur C. Pillsbury :: Alpine Flax. Phlox on the Glacier Point Trail, from 'Yosemite and Its High Sierra' - p.87 (1914). Lantern slide.
Hans Grendahl ~ Blossoming cactus, July, 1934. Stereo autochrome.
Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~ White cactus, July, 1935. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

