Beautiful Century

consuelod:

Austin Osman Spare “Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy” 

The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): Psychology of Ecstasy (1913)

“Old King Cole” - illustrated by Grace G. (Wiederseim) Drayton (1916) by docarelle on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
“Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose” illustrated by Grace G. (Wiederseim) Drayton, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916.

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Almanaque Bertrand 1913 - 11, C. D. Gibson on Flickr.

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A jury of the future.

f-featherbrain:

li-an:

Illustration s’il vous plaît: Alexander Wilke

Karl Alexander Wilke (1879 Leipzig - 1954 Wien), illustration for “Die Muskete” magazine, 1906

adelphe:

Royal Academy Pictures and Sculpture, 1914 Part 1

sydneyflapper:

French postcard, WWI era.

This wouldn’t look out of place at certain sporting events today…if the supporters were a particularly stylish lot.

kittyinva:

oldrags:

Illustration for Good Housekeeping by Marjorie Torre Bevans, December 1914

Kiityinva: Click to enlarge for wonderful details.

onceagarden:

Femina March 1914

(Source: mrsdentonorahippo)

“Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose” - illustrated by Grace G. (Wiederseim) Drayton (1916) by docarelle on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
“Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose” illustrated by Grace G. (Wiederseim) Drayton, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916. Ms.

From:
books.google.com/