Venustiano Carranza, 1913. Became president of Mexico in 1914. Assassinated in 1920.

 

Pancho Villa on his Horse, left.

Mexican revolution, 1911. Madero and his staff. Taken just before the fall of Cuidad Juarez.

Real photo postcards of Mexico, 1910 - 1940.

Three real photo postcards of the tombs of the mummies of Guanajuato, taken in the 1950s.

Four real photo postcards with captions on red tape from a tragic train wreck near Guanajuato in 1914.

Using a crane to lift the wreckage.

These 4 are from a series of 6, numbers 1,2,4,6.

The trains derailed going round a turn.

A red cross marks a corpse in the photo.

No more antlers, said the NY Times. So, no antlers.

I put this together after reading the NYT article on a still "moony" couple who bought a 1.7 million dollar loft in Williamsburg and wanted to avoid that "Brooklyn" look. Meaning antlers, for one thing, which is — I am sure — a not so subtle dig at the flea market/instant heritage/vintage taxidermy aesthetic that can be satisfied so easily on etsy.

 If you have $13,000 to spend on a couch (as this couple does), maybe you're above all that. If not, there are plenty of amazing pieces being made and curated by shops on the e'sphere that have nothing to do with antlers. I don't even think too many of these are in Brooklyn. But if they are, they're not in a 1.7 million smackeroo loftette. And I happen to love antlers anyway.

 Snapshots, 1899-1900

Was this a student's scrapbook? Did she or he work in a printing house or a shop that got giant catalogs of merchandise? The photos are all glued onto squares, the pages reused. Lots of captions, explanations, from Pasadena to Atlantic City, the classroom to the beach. Including a pet skeleton named Toby. 1899-1900.

Sixth plate ambrotype in leather case, 1860s.

A rather wistful looking older couple, and she's got a splash of gilt applied by the photographer to her brooch and the ring on her finger. 

As if that would brighten things up.

Campbell's Illustrated History of the Paris Exposition, 1900
Six volumes of the set

Five portfolios of the World's Fair, 1894
Art Series no. 12, 15, 7, and one missing number 1894
The Magic City, 1894

Piper wakes up after dinner.

Filmed in the worst light imaginable with a crappy iphone. Just click play.

Piper is the small one. The bigger one with the black ear is her cousin, Pixel. The one with the brown ear that looks calm isn't really calm at all. She's Pixel's sister. Name's Widget.

The Hudson River
rare photo album circa 1908

Made of paper that looks like leather, bound at the spine with its original cord

Published by the Bryant Union Publishing Company of NYC circa 1908.  

Printed by Albertype of NY

24 different views of the Hudson from Manhattan up to Albany, each on its own leaf

Horses and carriages up at Grant's Tomb

Cannons still trained on the Hudson at West Point

Gravestones at Tarrytown

Old Duchess County


Someone took great pains to put together this binder. In spite of the yellowed sleeves it seemed to want to stay intact.

Kennedy House, says the handwriting on the back.

Photos taken by John Kozlarek, who was a station master and amateur photographer.

A view you won't see anymore.

There's an obsessiveness to this album, as if its owner wanted to make sure every major point was covered at least once, including the old iron mine in Amenia.

105 images in all, tons of messages. "I won't be home Saturday so get Gert to bake you a cake," reads one.

The old depot in Millerton.