All images by George R Fardon
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Thank you to the George Eastman House Archive
‘San Francisco Album’, 1855
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“Fred Ott’s Sneeze”, January 1894
First fake photographs, c.1860
“When They Were Young”
Santa Claus, 1898
1700 Japanese babies, 1893
The Writing Ball
Pre-Communist Russia Postcards
Woman with cups and saucers on chest
Victorians Smiling II
The lost village of Balmalonesca, 1898-1905
Victorian Faux Snow Portraits
Construction of Tower Bridge, 1886-1894
New York in the snow, 1892-1920
Opium Smokers
Colton Pocket Map of the United States, 1855
New Orleans Business Directory, 1889
London Alphabet, 1850s
Printed “Teaching Machine”, 1894
Posters for Acrobatics shows, 1892-1903
Oh, for captions for the pictures. Surely they were included in the original album.
Amazing.