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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

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Scene from Glorifying the American Girl (1929)

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In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

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me and my mother <3

Antonio Ortiz Echagüe - El beso de la madre (1905)

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Late Victorian and Edwardian fashion in portraits by Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)

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Maggie Smith

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INCREDIBLE DRESSES IN ART (141/∞) Florence Piercy, Mrs. Goddard by Sir William Llewellyn

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i always forget my grandma used to be a clown so it caught me the fuck off guard when she saw this

and no hesitation saying “oh it’s that creepy clown- oh he’s drinking that’s against clown code”

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House of Worth Evening Dress, French, 1898-1900

From the Met Museum

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Athenais by John William Godward (1908)

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'The Witch' by William Mortensen, 1900s

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flower studies of enamel, silver gilt, jade, diamond, and rock crystal, house of fabergé, russia c. 1885-1915.

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Jane de Glehn in a Gondola, 1904, John Singer Sargent

Medium: watercolor,paper

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George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) in her letter to Gustave Flaubert dated 27 June 1870, featured in The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert letters

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Cora Crawley in Downton Abbey Season one

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Dragon Sculpture sitting at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel. Location: Romandy, Switzerland