AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN.

Now that I am on a LIC kick, better just keep on postin’. Monday evening I spent clicking page after page of stunning and remarkably fashioned African American women. In 1899 W.E.B Du Bois and Daniel A.P. Murray, an African American researcher and historian at the Library of Congress, spearheaded the planning, collection and installation [...]

RUSSIAN DISPLAYS. PART I.

I’ve made a couple of posts sharing the magical photos found on the Library of Congress’s Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection. This Sunday I spent a good portion of the evening devouring these incredible images. I have viewed every image up to page 100 and need to take a breath and share with you my findings [...]

HEAD STUDY.

Too Wonderful. All to herself, Head Study or Ėtiud golovki in Russian, between 1905 and 1915. No other information was given, leaving us to imagine mysterious circumstances and stories. Everything is striking-the long red hair, pale features, dark under eye circles, pea green velvet couch with tassels, white blouse, navy skirt tailored to fit, wow [...]

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