tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1853, [daguerreotype portrait of Josephine Clofullia, P.T. Barnum’s “The Bearded Lady of Geneva”], Thomas M. Easterly
via the Missouri History Museum

Joan Crawford, photographed by Don Gillum in a publicity shot for The Taxi Dancer, 1926
maudelynn:

Beautiful Trick Cyclists c.1891

Two Woman Posing with Stuffed Alligator in Florida, Circa 1910s, Courtesy of Florida Memory

Schnee bath, from Edward Reginald Morton and Elkin Cumberbatch’s Essentials of Medical Electricity (Third Edition), 1916
periwonkle:

Yes, this is a real thing.
deviatesinc:

Ethel Levy