1890s
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A Mother and Son in 1890 Lisdoonvarna: Capturing Victorian Ireland’s Grand Spa Town
A rare 1890 photographic plate preserves a mother and her young son visiting the County Clare spa town of Lisdoonvarna during the peak of Ireland’s Victorian health-tourism boom.
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Submerged in the 1890s: Louis Boutan and the World’s First Underwater Portrait
Clad in a heavy copper diving helmet and anchored to the Mediterranean seabed, a diver holds a slate inscribed ‘Photographie Sous-Marine’ in Louis Boutan’s pioneering 1890s attempt to capture life beneath the ocean surface.