Photograph Collection of a 19th-Century Sexologist
Photographs from the personal collection of Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), a German-Austrian psychiatrist, early sexologist, and author of Psychopat…more
Photographs
The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage
A charming set of twenty-five hand-tinted stereographs showing the various stages from courting to marriage – focused mainly on a rumbled midnight tryst on the th…more
Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)
Photographic portraits taken by Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond of patients from Surrey County Asylum in England where he worked as a psychiatrist….more
The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O’Followell (1908)
X-Ray images of women wearing corsets from the second volume of the French doctor Ludovic O’Followell’s Le Corset (1908)….more
Bifurcated Girls: Vanity Fair Special Issue (1903)
Images from a special issue of Vanity Fair featuring women dressed in “Bifurcations”, i.e. trousers. A distinctly sexual tone to the whole thing….more
Guess the Celeb behind the Driving Garb (1906)
Images from a 1906 issue of the French women’s magazine Femina, the first of it’s kind in France and which is still going today. These strange array of pictures…more
Photographs of the Famous by Felix Nadar
Félix Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1 April 1820, Paris – 20 March 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and b…more
Kodak No.1 Circular Snapshots
Popular photography can properly be said to have started 120 years ago with the introduction of the Kodak camera, the invention of an American, George Eastman (1854…more