Jul 6 2012
1:28 am
X-ray of bound feet, China, 1890-1923. Source: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress

X-ray of bound feet, China, 1890-1923.

Source: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #1900s #1910s #1920s #vintage #x-ray #bound feet #feet #skeleton #bones #creepy #china
18 notes

Jun 15 2012
6:22 pm
Platform Mortuary Station 1 for Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery Railway Line, Australia, ca. 1900.

Platform Mortuary Station 1 for Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery Railway Line, Australia, ca. 1900.

Posted 1 year ago
#1900s #mortruary #cemetery #tothic #train station #sydney #australia #vintage #creepy
27 notes

Jun 11 2012
10:19 pm
Francesca Woodman, House #3, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976.

Francesca Woodman, House #3, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976.

Posted 1 year ago
#1970s #providence #rhode island #vintage #francesca woodman #black and white #eery #creepy #gothic
82 notes

Jun 3 2012
9:59 am
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, 1914-1916.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, 1914-1916.

Posted 1 year ago
#1910s #russia #russian history #rasputin #grigori rasputin #creepy #vintage #portrait #history #priest #imperial russia #russian revolution #romanov #romanov family #scary
117 notes

Jun 3 2012
7:45 am
Frank G. Carpenter, Eskimo Medicine Man, Alaska, Exorcising Evil Spirits from a Sick Boy/Working to beat the devil, Nushagak, Alaska, ca. 1895. Source: Library of Congress

Frank G. Carpenter, Eskimo Medicine Man, Alaska, Exorcising Evil Spirits from a Sick Boy/Working to beat the devil, Nushagak, Alaska, ca. 1895.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 1 year ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #creepy #scary #frank carpenter #alaska #native american #american indian #USA #eskimo #inuit #native people #mask #children #exorcism #medicine man #shaman
46 notes

Jun 2 2012
10:27 pm
Edward S. Curtis, Hamatsa emerging from the woods—Koskimo, 13 November 1914. Source: Library of Congress

Edward S. Curtis, Hamatsa emerging from the woods—Koskimo, 13 November 1914.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 1 year ago
#american indian #british columbia #canada #creepy #edward curtis #first nations #history #kwakiutl #native american #portrait #vintage #1910s #native people #shaman #priest #religion #hamatsa #koskimo
18 notes

Jun 2 2012
7:39 am
Mark Kauffman, Hong Kong, March 1947.

Mark Kauffman, Hong Kong, March 1947.

Posted 1 year ago
#1940s #hong kong #china #mark kauffman #vintage #history #destruction #creepy
19 notes

May 22 2012
3:30 pm
Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dali, Portrait of Marilyn Monroe as Chairman Mao, 1952. Source: Getty Museum

Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dali, Portrait of Marilyn Monroe as Chairman Mao, 1952.

Source: Getty Museum

Posted 1 year ago
#1950s #mao zedong #mao tsetung #chairman mao #marilyn monroe #marilyn #vintage #portrait #history #creepy #wtf #philippe halsman #salvador dali
98 notes

May 8 2012
7:26 pm
Ku Klux Klan members gathered under a burning cross, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1921. Source: Library of Congress, American Memory Collection

Ku Klux Klan members gathered under a burning cross, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1921.

Source: Library of Congress, American Memory Collection

Posted 1 year ago
#1920s #KKK #USA #colorado #creepy #cross #denver #history #ku klux #racism #racist #segregation #white supremacy
46 notes

May 6 2012
1:44 pm
Louis Daguerre, L’Atelier de l’artiste, France, 1837. Source: Société française de photographie

Louis Daguerre, L’Atelier de l’artiste, France, 1837.

Source: Société française de photographie

Posted 1 year ago
#1830s #19th century #victorian #louis daguerre #france #atelier #daguerreotype #creepy
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