Vast Public Indifference

Abigail W. Wood, Nemasket Hill Cemetery, Middleboro, MA, 1854 Sacred to the memory of ABIGAIL W. Wife of Horatio G. Wood & daughter ...

This week, Andrew Sullivan published a 19th-century photo (c. 1870s) submitted by a reader who claimed that it depicts "a would-be tran...

Cincinnati, 1848, Cincinnati Public Library Pete's friend, Ross, is getting his Ph.D. in computer vision at the University of Rochest...

Visit Black and WTF for a collection of strange black-and-white photographs. Thanks, Mom!

This daguerreotype (ca. 1855) of George Leverett Stowell is part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection . If you click ...

According to the Duke University Digital Collections , Hugh Magnum was an itinerant photographer who carted his mobile portrait studio all ...

I apologize for the lack of new posts lately. Gravestones usually get pushed to the back burner during this time of year. In our family,...

Duke University has one of the best digital photo archives around. One of the most interesting collections in the archive chronicles the ph...

Is he planning to wear that hat on his entire body? He is just too adorable with his little pout and his overlarge tunic and standing on t...

While I was looking for more daguerreotypes of kids in hats, I came across this image in the online collections of the George Eastman House...

Young Irving Selden and his magnificent hat. See this and many other unusual portraits from the Harvard Theatre Collection here !

This is Edward Waldo Emerson, youngest son of Ralph Waldo Emerson . He seems unimpressed with his little Glengarry cap . Not too fond of th...

I wish I could carry my big camera around campus on a daily basis, but I can't manage it and my computer at the same time. That means I...

All lovers of kids in hats should go immediately to photo_history's Flickr photostream ! I have already spent more than an hour flippin...

I dedicate this hat to my mother, who loves 19th-century portraits in which half-hidden monsters mothers steady their floppy offspring for...

I have about a hundred of these. Poor little 19th-century kids. I'd probably be pursing my lips if someone made me wear that fetching l...

Someone in this photo is a teeny bit overdressed: More adorable kids in hats@ Harvard Visual Information Access .

Until the middle of the 20th century, young children in Europe and the United States regularly wore dresses, regardless of sex. Many modern ...

I'm sure that many people will post commemorative essays on this, the 65th anniversary of D-Day. I will mark the day by looking through ...

While reading Jill Lepore's Baby Food yesterday, I was reminded of the Schlesinger Library's small collection of beautiful daguerre...