Konstantin Somov, Арлекин и смерть (Harlequin And Death), 1907
1900’s
Bring out the Coffin, Let the Mourners Come: Vintage Coin-Operated Mortuary
Darlings, if you liked the grim, coffin-shaped automated cigarette dispenser we featured a few weeks ago, you might just fall in love with a turn-of-the-century, coin-operated, automated mortuary. Believed to be created around 1900 by John Dennison, this morbid automaton was… Read More ›
Silent Sundays: Anna Held’s Fencing Girls (1902)
One of Anna Held’s Fencing Girls, photographed by Gilbert & Bacon, 1902 Related Posts: – Silent Sundays: “Untitled” (1926) – Silent Sundays: Photo Prisma Almanac No. 5 (1952) – Silent Sundays: Trepanation (1944)
