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People risked for gold life. On the daguerreotypes in the 1850s, the young people direct their views to the camera. All of them have one thing in common – the desire to mine gold. Luce Lebart of the Canadian Institute of photography talks about the people who lived during the …

The house, as if descended from the pages of fairy tales. In the forest in the Swedish province of småland has a little dugout built in the early 1800-ies. Over time, the cabin began to collapse, but was saved the woman from a family that had lived in the dugout. …

What was Japan 100 years ago. In 1881, after many years of working with European photographer Felix Beato and Baron Raimund von Stilmeda as a Retoucher and assistant, Japanese photographer Kusakabe, Kimbei finally opened his own business in Yokohama. Kimba positioned itself as the most successful Japanese photographer of his …

Delightful, but at the same time pompous and posechenny Venice crazy, causing bouts of romanticism and nostalgia about travel. Here I would like to be in love with a dreamer or a poet, walking arm in arm through the narrow shabby streets, whispering sweet nothings in the ear of her …

Hollywood stars in unusual images. The photographer Stephen Berkman makes your shots on the technology of the mid-nineteenth century wet plate collodion process opened in 1851. Its essence consists in obtaining a photographic negative images on glass plates with collodion emulsion. “I’m interested in photography’s first 40 years, because even …

Familiar parts of the capital in a unique photos. The Internet has published rare photos: Kiev, European area, train station.

Unique colored cards. Colour postcards sun-scorched streets with Moorish architecture was created using the process photogram, which allowed realistic to paint a black and white image at the end of the 19th century. This laborious and time-consuming method of chromolithography was invented in the 1880s a Swiss employee of the …

Constantinople at sunset of the Ottoman Empire. Colored postcard of the capital of the Ottoman Empire was printed in the late 19th century using the process photochrome (Photochrom). This variant of chromolithography was invented in the 1880’s by Hans Jakob Schmidt, a Swiss employee of the printing company “Orell Gessner …

Fashion on Smoking of opium came to North America with the large influx of Chinese workers in the 1840s and 1850s. Many of them have built homes and businesses in the Chinese quarters of San Francisco and new York, where those wishing to smoke was more than enough. This pernicious …

Rare historical photographs depicting life in the United States in the 19th centuryWe offer to your attention a selection of rare historical images of the authorship of unknown photographers that shed light on the everyday lives of people in the United States in the 1860-ies.