This place was famous in the olden time as one of the favorite haunts of the great sea-serpent.
Category: 1899
Scene at Fifth Avenue, New York by William Thomas Smedley.
Belle Époque. Fifth Avenue looking north towards the southern entrance to Central Park by W. T. Smedley, 1899.
Gay Nineties. Couple in late victorian fashion of the 1890s.
This couple dressed in afternoon formal dress. Change that took place in feminine costume. It shows the new silhouette.

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The Graecomania. Modes of the Directory and the Consulate.
Women’s fashion of classicism in France at the end of the 18th century. Modes of the Directory and the Consulate (1795-1804).
Persian characters at the end of the 19th century. Travel to Iran.
Golnabat Khanoum (Mrs. Sugar-candi) of the Susmani tribe.
Host of a Black bar in the north of Brazil
Host of a Black bar in the north of Brazil
Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Various opium pipes. Opium smocking in Shanghai 1899.
The native opium grown in China, is generally considered the most inferior, and the Indian opium, especially Malwa and Patna, the best.
Peasant girl of the village of Kieg island, Arkhangelsk.
Russian peasant girl of the village of Kieg island, Arkhangelsk. Russia 1899
Usagara, Chief of Mamboya, with his son and witch doctor.
Usagara, Tanzania. Chief of Mamboya, with his son and witch doctor.