1800s | MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine

Vintage: Railroad Bridges With Timber Trestles

23 May 2018 0

In the 1830s, the railroad boom started a new era in the building of railroad bridges pushing engineers to build towering wooden bridges that have become synonymous with the era. Timber trestles were one of the few railroad bridge forms…

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Vintage: Amsterdam Streets by George Hendrik Breitner (1890s-1900s)

15 May 2018 0

George Hendrik Breitner (1857 – 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and…

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Vintage: Portrait of Confederate States Army’s Generals by Mathew Brady (1860s)

27 April 2018 0

Mathew Brady efforts to document the American Civil War on a grand scale by bringing his photographic studio onto the battlefields earned Brady his place in history. Despite the dangers, financial risk, and discouragement by his friends, Brady was later…

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Vintage: 19th Century Royal Palace of Jaipur, India by Maharaja Ram Singh III

23 April 2018 0

The pictures were taken between 1857 and 1865, and the collection of glass negatives were to remain untouched for more than a century. Under the watchful eye of British photographer T. Murray, the Maharaja – who became known as the…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the 1880s

18 April 2018 0

Sri Lanka was known from the beginning of British colonial rule until 1972 as Ceylon. At first the area it covered did not include the Kingdom of Kandy, which was a protectorate from 1815, but from 1817 to 1948 the…

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Vintage: Street Scenes of São Paulo, Brazil (1862 -1887)

16 April 2018 0

After Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822, as declared by Emperor Pedro I where the Monument of Ipiranga is located, he named São Paulo as an Imperial City. In 1827, a law school was founded at the Convent of…

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Vintage: Street Shots of Oslo by Carl Størmer (1890s)

12 April 2018 0

Carl Størmer (1874-1957) is one of Norway’s pioneer photographers. He is known as an astronomer and mathematician. In history books Størmer is referred to as “The Northern Lights photographer”: he will go down in history as the first person to…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of Norwegians (late 19th Century)

9 April 2018 0

In 1886 20-year-old Ellisif R. Müller (1866-1949) married her cousin, regional doctor Andreas Wessel. The marriage led her to Kirkenes, where they lived out their lives. It was there, in her new home, that she made her debut as a…

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Vintage: The Earliest Known Photographs of White House (1846)

8 April 2018 0

A Welsh immigrant named John Plumbe, Jr., who was one of the country’s first prominent professional photographers, took the daguerreotype in January 1846. The White House as it stands today is a very different building than when it was first…

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Vintage: Ottoman Clothing (19th Century)

1 April 2018 0

Ottoman clothing is the style and design of clothing worn by the Ottoman Turks. While the Palace and its court dressed lavishly, the common people were only concerned with covering themselves. Starting in the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, administrators…

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Vintage: Paris in the Belle Époque (1871 to 1914)

30 March 2018 0

The population of Paris was 1,851,792 in 1872, at the beginning the Belle Époque. By 1911, it reached 2,888,107, higher than the population today. Three major new French industries were born in and around Paris at about the turn of…

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Vintage: American West During the American Frontier Days

27 March 2018 0

By 1848 the United States had acquired official title to the contiguous land stretching westward to the Pacific, south to the Rio Grande, and north to the 49th parallel. Americans had long since explored and settled in many of these…

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Vintage: Whitby, England in the Late Victorian Era by Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

23 March 2018 0

Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1853 – 1941) was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century.

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Vintage: 19th Century Sexual Revolution by Sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing

9 March 2018 0

Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s (1840 – 1902) principal work is Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study), which was first published in 1886 and expanded in subsequent editions. The last edition from the hand of the author (the…

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Vintage: Boston Public Schools (late 19th Century)

4 March 2018 0

The Boston Pictorial Archive holds photographs documenting Boston-area adult and evening classes in the 19th century, with the bulk of the material covering the years between 1890 and 1893. These images offer interior views as well as adult students engaged…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of Egypt (late 19th Century)

30 January 2018 0

Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty remained nominally an Ottoman province. It was granted the status of an autonomous vassal state or Khedivate in 1867, a status which was to remain in place until 1914. The Suez Canal, built in…

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Vintage: Swedish churches (19th Century)

18 January 2018 0

This set shows photos of Swedish churches from 1100-1900 AD – a mix of stone and wooden churches, cathedrals and chapels – country churches as well as city churches. We think that these pictures well describe the wide range of…

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Vintage: Historical Photos of Harvard University (19th Century)

16 January 2018 0

Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States’ oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its…

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Vintage: Daguerreotype Portraits of People born in the late 18th Century (1700s)

14 January 2018 0

Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of People born in the late 18th century (1700s). From the collection of Jesse Cress at flickr

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Vintage: Helsinki in the late 19th Century

12 January 2018 0

During the 19th century, Helsinki became the economic and cultural center of Finland; as elsewhere, technological advancements such as railroads and industrialization were key factors behind the city’s growth. The first Helsinki railway station opened in 1862 with service to…

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