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 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
Posed Portraits of 19th Century Baseball Stars
Selection of studio posed photographs from the New York Public Library’s Spalding Collection, a series of over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and p…more
Remembrance of Teams Past
< p style=”text-align:justify”> With the end of the 2012 Olympics now in sight, we celebrate the world of amateur sport with some photographs of local teams fro…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
Men in Wigs
From various sources via Wikimedia Commons Underlying Work: No known copyright restrictions | Digital Copy: See source Download: Right click on image or see source …more