Alice '03

"The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations."

"With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film's original colours for the first time in over 100 years."

Found on the TamTam Books blog

Have you seen the new Alice?

Brooklyn Marathon 2/12/09

Brooklyn Marathon - 1909
From Bed-Stuy to Coney Island and back

Photos from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress
Text from the NY Times Archives

Forming

source:life
via: KellyR

Deeds Not Words - Part 2

Swatches for Suffrage Banner Design

"The items in the collection were mostly designed and created by two artist-based suffrage organizations in Britain: the Artist’s Suffrage League and the Suffrage Atelier, both connected to women’s suffrage organizations in that country."

from: here

Deeds Not Words

Women's Suffrage Banners from the UK
from: here

Berlin circa 1908

"Among the larger collections at George Eastman House are nearly 11,000 glass negatives by Ch. Chusseau-Flaviens...He seems to have been an early free-lance photojournalist able to travel and gain access to various European royalty, armies, and political rallies"

GEH also has a flickr

Boxers of the Early Twentieth Century

More cigarette cards from the NYPL Digital Collection.

Boxers circa 1903-1917