Meet Williamina Fleming, a 19th-century Scottish maid who became an astronomer
Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical ...
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These 19th century activities are making a comeback in Mass.
BACK TO YOU. VOGUE. WHEN TINTYPE PHOTOGRAPHY WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO THE MASS MARKET, IT TOOK ABOUT 10 TO 15 MINUTES TO MAKE JUST ONE IMAGE. STIL These 19th century activities are making a ...
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19th century ring linked to Scottish geologist found on South African beach
A ring linked to a 19th century Scottish geologist which was found on a South ... The ring is inscribed with the dates of Hugh Miller’s birth and death (Alison White Photography/NTS/PA) It is not ...
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19th century England is brought to life with newly acquired photograph collection
Janette Rosing was an antiquarian, art and photograph collector. She began her collection of 19th century photographs in the 1980s after her obsession was kickstarted by stumbling upon an image of ...
Your Observer1d
On the trail of things that go bump in the night at The Ringling
Since not all spirits have good intentions, it’s also appropriate that the new exhibit, “Conjuring the Spirit World” came to ...
The Art Newspaper13d
‘We will not be a traditional institution’: Foto Arsenal Wien takes up the mantle of Vienna’s radical art roots
The new exhibition space, Austria’s first centre for photographic images and lens-based media, will open on 21 March ...
LaGrange Daily News14d
SILVER LINING: Pandemic leads to love of historic photography technique
Artwork from two LaGrange artists and friends is currently being displayed in an exhibit in New Jersey. The exhibit titled ...
Andy Warhol’s former NYC townhouse — where his green paint streaks remain on the kitchen floor — asks $6.95M for sale
This Upper East Side dwelling, at 1342 Lexington Ave., last changed hands in 2013 for $5.5 million and briefly appeared as a ...
Country Life22d
Historic England acquires 8,000-strong collection of early landscape photographs
More than 8,000 black-and-white images, amounting to a collection of some of the finest early English landscape photography that is ‘of national significance’, has been acquired by Historic England ...
The Irish Times8d
Into the light — Paul Clements on photographer Alexander Hogg
In the middle of the 19th century, photography in Ireland was booming. By the early 1850s, Dublin boasted a dozen studios and 60 more opened in the following decade. Belfast, which had half-a ...
The Harvard Crimson26d
Tamara Lanier Decries University’s Refusal To Turn Over Daguerreotypes in Book Talk
Lanier claims Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology owns 19th century photographs of her great-great-great grandfather Renty and his daughter Delia. Lanier, who published her ...
The Washington Post16d
‘The Paris Express’ is a riveting mix of social commentary and mystery
The occurrence generated massive media coverage, including many sketches and photographs of the scene ... The problems plaguing 19th-century France appear not so different from our own, and ...