The following articles were authored by Chris Forster

Photo of the Week: Coney Island Swimming

Victorian bathing attire has a reputation for its modesty, but this seems somewhat excessive. A less idiosyncratic view of the culture of bathing is offered by the following images from the Library of Congress: the 1911 Coney Island Swimming Carnival, Winter Bathing, N.Y., Dec. 1912, or this picture of a bathing machine. Bathing, of course, [...]

Photo of the Week: Revolution!

This glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection of the Library of Congress shows Pascual Orozco (sometimes spelled “Oreo”) being declared “supreme commander of the revolutionary forces” (“Orzco proclamado jefe supremo fuerzas revolucionarias“).