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🌹Queen of Roses🌹

✨️International Design and Development Consultant✨️

👩‍💼co-founder @SolarKwetu 👩‍💼
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[it's by deesign @KuntaKitten]

THE REMARKABLE STORY OF THE 1924 LA BEAUTÉ

In 2025, in a small thrift shop in Namibia, I found something no one expected to exist here — a nearly intact 101-year-old Parisian photogravure art portfolio, La Beauté, Album X from 1924.

What looks at first like an old booklet is actually a rare survivor from the early modernist art world of Paris — the same era that produced Man Ray, Josephine Baker, Picasso’s atelier period, and the birth of Surrealism.

Albums like this were never mass-market magazines.
They were professional tools used by artists, sculptors, photographers and art students as anatomical and lighting references before photography and printing became widespread.

Most of these portfolios were:

(a) torn apart in art studios,

(b) lost in the chaos of WWII,

(c) sold plate-by-plate for profit,

(d) thrown away as “indecent,”

(e) or simply disintegrated over a century of poor storage.

Yet this one survived.

It travelled from 1924 Paris — a city buzzing with modern art, the Olympic Games, early photography studios, and bohemian life — all the way to southern Africa, crossing continents and generations with no record of how it got here...

It lost its cover, but kept what mattered: 31 intact photogravure plates, clean, undamaged, and printed in the same workshop district that produced some of the earliest modern artistic photography.

The statistical odds of such a piece surviving — and then appearing in Namibia — are absurdly small.
These albums almost never leave Europe or the US. Many collectors look for years and never find early issues like this one.

Whether or not another copy exists on the continent is unknown — but realistically, this may be the only surviving Album X (1924) in Africa.

For 225 Namibian dollars, I rescued a cultural artifact that carries:

(a) the faces and forms of women who lived a century ago,

(b) the craft of early photogravure printing,

(c) the history of Parisian art education,

(d) and the improbable journey of an object that should not have survived.

This tiny portfolio is a reminder that history doesn’t always sit in museums...Sometimes it hides on a dusty thrift shop shelf, waiting for someone paying attention.

And now it’s preserved — properly, respectfully — for another hundred years.

Hopefully.

[Dr. 𝔹𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕚 𝒜𝓅𝓅𝒽𝒾𝒶 @mediclady]

BSc - Medical laboratory science
MSc - Molecular medicine with distinction
MSc - International regulatory science
PhD - Pharmaceutical and Biomedical science
Cert - Clinical trial design and management
Cert - Int regulatory science
Beverly Hirsh Frank Fellow

Too many to remember

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

ICE took a 31 y/o Haitian asylum-seeker into custody, drove her 30 miles away to a Pittsburgh office, put an ankle monitor on her, then sent her out the front door with no way to get anywhere or contact her family.

She froze to death at a bus stop. It's now ruled a homicide.

[surditia do zap™ @senhorasurda]

eu nasci em 92 e ainda não esqueci de quando me contaram que na copa do mundo de 94 sequestraram o pai do romário e o cara disse que se não achassem o pai dele, não ia jogar na copa

os traficantes se unindo pra acharem o pai dele e isso merecia um FILME

[Simon Banza @simbnz]

🇺🇸🐆🐾🇨🇩

[nana aba @thenanaaba]

If they were living there illegally, then of course they should be deported by the authorities empowered to do so.

It’s not your job to loot their shops, assault them and behave like a lawless mob.

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

you're the main character and humans are just background..

[Wild Clips @JCFights]

A woman was having her photo taken by her husband in Monaco when a group of women jumped in to warn her, saying "Someone is taking your picture." They quickly relaxed when they found out the person filming was actually her husband.

[۟ @JPlaideLaRelaxe]

Est-ce qu’ils sont au courant qu’ils sont OBLIGÉS de bien jouer mtn ?

[nana aba @thenanaaba]

Your bloodthirsty, pea sized brained compatriots didn’t stop to check visas and other documents before attacking black people in their shops and on the streets.

Now that the facts are inconvenient, you’ve suddenly become an expert on legal status. A little late for that, considering the mobs were busy looting shops and attacking anyone they thought looked foreign.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Please stop being mean to people just because you’re unhappy with your life.

[nana aba @thenanaaba]

No, they’re not crying to stay. They’re crying because some evil, dim witted, idiotic animals pretending to be human beings think violence and intimidation are acceptable ways to deal with immigrants.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“All addictions are a low level search for God.”

- Carl Jung

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

My frontal lobe fully developed, and I realized that working a 9 to 5 job five days a week until I am 60 just so I can “enjoy” a few years when I am close to death is the worst idea I have ever seriously considered.

[PeePee🎀 @peegzy1]

When a person becomes wise, the first thing they give up is showing off.

[Ginger @Gboye_Rave]

I have tried hustling but I recommend inheritance .

[7’ @7chrsyns]

je pense que les congolaises sont les plus belles femmes d’afrique

[it's by deesign @KuntaKitten]

what??

[Rapid Report @RapidReport2025]

JUST IN: 21-year-old dies after workers forget to attach safety rope and push her off 40-meter bridge in São Paulo’s Limeira, Brazil

[Alkass English @alkassenglish]

The Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Houston for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in style, with their eye-catching travel outfits inspired by the leopard, one of the country's national symbols.

Making their first World Cup appearance in 52 years, DR Congo will kick off their Group K campaign against Portugal on June 17 in Houston.

#AlkassEnglish #Shoof #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup2026

[Rhema Cèdre @RhemaCedre]

Fière d’être congolaise !!🇨🇩❤️

[VastLand. @VastLandd]

“Les Leopards”
- study of DR congo’s wc arrival outfits 🇨🇩

👨‍🎨: @nkfrom04