Alice austen

🖤 Lana’s Victorian Gallery 🖤 on Instagram: “photograph inside an ice skating rink, circa early 1900s. 🖤 • photo from getty images •…”

Tessa Hulls travels back to the early days of cycling to tell stories of pioneering women, trans, and femme riders.

Alice Austen Her Life Alice Austen (1866 – 1952) was one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers, and over the course of her life she captured about 8,000 images. Alice Austen …

The South's conservative and religious majority has made it nearly impossible to suss out the queers in classic Southern literature and in the history books. That's why this list exists.

Elsie played the part of “Lally” opposite Adrienne Augarde playing “The Princess” in “The New Aladdin” which opened at The Gaiety Theatre on 29th September 1906.…

Photographs of lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified women, 1850-1999. Seriously this is really cool.

Alice Austen was a prolific photographer who lived on Staten Island's North Shore at the turn of the twentieth century. In honor of National Photography Month, let's explore her life and photography. We will also explore Austen's house, Clear Comfort, which is now a National Historic Landmark and serves as a museum and resource center.

The city wasn't so different, as these 1896 photos from the New York Public Library's collections show.

In Neil McKenna's latest book, Fanny and Stella, he tells how two young men who liked to dress as women were feted about town – and ended up as the subjects of a sensational show trial