Kilchurn Castle is a ruined 15th century structure on the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It was the ancestral home of the Campbells of Glen Orchy, who later became the Earls of Breadalbane also known as the Breadalbane family branch, of the Clan Campbell. The earliest construction on the castle was the towerhouse and Laich Hall (looks onto Loch Awe). Today, its picturesque setting and romantic state of decay make it one of the most photographed structures in Scotland. image:  Photochrom print (color photo lithograph), between 1890 and 1905
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Kilchurn Castle is a ruined 15th century structure on the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

It was the ancestral home of the Campbells of Glen Orchy, who later became the Earls of Breadalbane also known as the Breadalbane family branch, of the Clan Campbell. The earliest construction on the castle was the towerhouse and Laich Hall (looks onto Loch Awe). Today, its picturesque setting and romantic state of decay make it one of the most photographed structures in Scotland.

image:  Photochrom print (color photo lithograph), between 1890 and 1905

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Faust, 1926 Directed by F.W. Murnau
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Faust, 1926

Directed by F.W. Murnau

Chillon Castle during the late 19th century, viewed from east Silver-gelatin print source: Logan Reed, Chicago, IL
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Chillon Castle during the late 19th century, viewed from east

Silver-gelatin print

source: Logan Reed, Chicago, IL

Professor Sir Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell FBA (13 September 1879–8 April 1974) was an English architectural historian who wrote some of the seminal works on Islamic architecture in Egypt. He took this picture of the courtyard of the Firdaws Madrasa.  I love black and white architectural photos. There’s something quite eerie about them.
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Professor Sir Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell FBA (13 September 1879–8 April 1974) was an English architectural historian who wrote some of the seminal works on Islamic architecture in Egypt.

He took this picture of the courtyard of the Firdaws Madrasa. 

I love black and white architectural photos. There’s something quite eerie about them.

Source: Wikipedia

TIL: Joan of Arc inspired the ever-popular bob haircut, which originated in Paris in 1909. The voices that commanded the teenage Joan to don men’s clothing and expel the English from France also told her to crop her long hair. She wore it in the pageboy style common among knights of her era until guards shaved her head shortly before her execution. In 1909, the Polish-born hairdresser known as Monsieur Antoine—one of Paris’ most sought-after stylists—began cutting his fashionable clients’ tresses in a short “bob,” citing Joan of Arc as his inspiration. The look really caught on in the 1920s, popularized by silent film stars and embraced by the flapper set. While women continue to request bob cuts to this day, another of Antoine’s legendary experiments—dyeing his dog’s hair blue—hasn’t stood the test of time. image: Louise Brooks, famous silent film star
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TIL: Joan of Arc inspired the ever-popular bob haircut, which originated in Paris in 1909.


The voices that commanded the teenage Joan to don men’s clothing and expel the English from France also told her to crop her long hair. She wore it in the pageboy style common among knights of her era until guards shaved her head shortly before her execution.

In 1909, the Polish-born hairdresser known as Monsieur Antoine—one of Paris’ most sought-after stylists—began cutting his fashionable clients’ tresses in a short “bob,” citing Joan of Arc as his inspiration. The look really caught on in the 1920s, popularized by silent film stars and embraced by the flapper set. While women continue to request bob cuts to this day, another of Antoine’s legendary experiments—dyeing his dog’s hair blue—hasn’t stood the test of time.

image: Louise Brooks, famous silent film star

Source: history.com

Félix Nadar (1820-1910) portrait of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) was a French architect and theorist, famous for his interpretive “restorations” of medieval buildings. Born in Paris, he was a major Gothic Revival architect. ***Some of his restorations have become very controversial because they were not intended so much to recreate a historical situation accurately as to create a “perfect building” of medieval style: “to restore an edifice”, he observed in theDictionnaire raisonné, “is not to maintain it, repair or rebuild it, but to re-establish it in a complete state that may never have existed at a particular moment”.
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Félix Nadar (1820-1910) portrait of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) was a French architect and theorist, famous for his interpretive “restorations” of medieval buildings. Born in Paris, he was a major Gothic Revival architect.

***Some of his restorations have become very controversial because they were not intended so much to recreate a historical situation accurately as to create a “perfect building” of medieval style: “to restore an edifice”, he observed in theDictionnaire raisonné, “is not to maintain it, repair or rebuild it, but to re-establish it in a complete state that may never have existed at a particular moment”.

Howard Pyle — The Coming of Lancaster Illustration for Harper’s Monthly — May 1908
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Howard Pyle — The Coming of Lancaster
Illustration for Harper’s Monthly — May 1908

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Tomb Of Geoffrey Chaucer, Westminster Abbey 1904 negative, gelatin on glass 
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Tomb Of Geoffrey Chaucer, Westminster Abbey

1904 
negative, gelatin on glass 

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My Shakespear, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie a little further, to make thee a room. Ben Jonson  (1573 - 1637)
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My Shakespear, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie a little further, to make thee a room.


Ben Jonson  (1573 - 1637)

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Vaulted Ceiling in the Henry VIII Chapel, 1937
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Vaulted Ceiling in the Henry VIII Chapel, 1937

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Penshurst Place is a historic building near Tonbridge, Kent, 32 miles (51 km) south east of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney. The original medieval house is one of the most complete examples of fourteenth century domestic architecture in England surviving in its original location. image: Gotch, J. Alfred: “The Growth of the English House” (1909)
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Penshurst Place is a historic building near Tonbridge, Kent, 32 miles (51 km) south east of London, England.

It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney. The original medieval house is one of the most complete examples of fourteenth century domestic architecture in England surviving in its original location.

image: Gotch, J. Alfred: “The Growth of the English House” (1909)

Autochrome portrait of Percy MacKaye as Alwyn. Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1913. American playwright Percy MacKaye (1875-1956) appears here as the poet Alwyn, “friend of all,” in Sanctuary: A Bird Masque. MacKaye was a proponent of communal civic theater and a nature lover. He wrote this masque as a public pageant for the dedication of the Bird Club sanctuary in Meriden, New Hampshire. The play, written in verse, told of a hunter’s redemption by his prey, the Bird Spirit. At a time whendemand for feathers in hats and other products was harming entire species, the play helped promote the wild bird conservation movement. more about the portrait and the technique read the play (with more color and monotone photographs)
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Autochrome portrait of Percy MacKaye as Alwyn. Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1913.

American playwright Percy MacKaye (1875-1956) appears here as the poet Alwyn, “friend of all,” in Sanctuary: A Bird Masque. MacKaye was a proponent of communal civic theater and a nature lover.

He wrote this masque as a public pageant for the dedication of the Bird Club sanctuary in Meriden, New Hampshire. The play, written in verse, told of a hunter’s redemption by his prey, the Bird Spirit. At a time whendemand for feathers in hats and other products was harming entire species, the play helped promote the wild bird conservation movement.

more about the portrait and the technique

read the play (with more color and monotone photographs)

Source: vintageprintable.com

Medieval vintage photography English Medieval Court Philip Henry Delamotte  (English, 1821–1889) Albumen silver print from glass negative
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Medieval vintage photography

English Medieval Court

Philip Henry Delamotte  (English, 1821–1889)

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Source: metmuseum.org

Frank Godwin (1889 ~ 1959) in Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert Published by Garden City Publiching Co ~ 1932
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Frank Godwin

(1889 ~ 1959)

in Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert

Published by Garden City Publiching Co ~ 1932

Source: goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com

Lost Splendor: Explore History

lostsplendor:

Since the fall of the old Dashboard, I’ve been wondering, when will History ever have it’s own tag in Explore? Despite loving the Vintage tag, History and Vintage do not always go hand in hand. As it stands, there currently isn’t much of a place for Historical figures, places, and things as far…

I tried to do this myself, once, but I think chances are slim now that we have History in tumblr Spotlight. But we should never stop trying so… Let’s try to reblog this as much as possible. 

The tag would make tracking all those wonderful things much easier.

P.S. The fall of the Dasboard :) Sounds so historical

Source: lostsplendor