just-collecting-dust:

Sideshow performer, The Serpent Lady, Serpentina

Born in 1908, with no bones in her body besides her skull and a few in her arms, she was hailed as the eighth wonder of the world and and exhibited at Coney Island.

midnight-gallery:

Olive Jordi. The dead girl, Saddlebag (Tarragona), 1965.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. - F. Scott Fitzgerald,The Great Gatsby

gatzzby:

“Being in love, she concluded, is simply the presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone. Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure, she thought, another chance in life.” 

- Save Me The Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald

burnedshoes:

© Leopold Collection, Easter 1912, Gustav Klimt with Getrude

Gustav Klimt and the five-years old niece of Emilie Louise Flöge (Klimt’s life companion), Gertrude, on the landing stage of Villa Paulick in Seewalchen on Lake Attersee.

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indypendent-thinking:

Eleanor Clay Ford,  1916

thehystericalsociety:

“On the Border Of Shut-eye-town” -1898 (Via)

stardustedlashes:

Blue-Eyed Widow, Albumen Carte de Visite, Circa 1862 (by lisby1)

Photo by Ed Van Der Elsken, 1950

soyouthinkyoucansee:

portrait in sepia 11