1. Notes: 70 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   “What you are now we used to be; what we are now you will be…”

   Capuchin Crypt in Rome [another view here]

   via Orchard Lake

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2. Notes: 33 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo [also]

   from LIFE

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3. Notes: 53 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   Conversation about a Rose, Capuchin catacombs in Palermo, 1950

   by Herbert List * [more catacombs]

   via stephen daiter gallery

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4. Notes: 217 / 2 years ago 
   

   From Living Dead: Inside the Palermo Crypt

   courtesy of  amazing mr. Herbert Pfostl [ Blind Pony Books and Paper Graveyard] and Morbid Anatomy

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5. Notes: 277 / 2 years ago  from liquidnight
   

    Another view of Capuchin catacombs

   from liquidnight:Herbert List The Eternal Prayer,Palermo, 1939

   From The Essential Herbert List: Photographs 1930-1972

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6. Notes: 333 / 2 years ago  from oldhollywood
   

   oldhollywood:The ballerinas roam the catacombs of the Paris Opera in The Phantom of the Opera (1925, dir. Rupert Julian) (scene here)

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7. Notes: 73 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   Capuchin catacombs of Palermo *

   Anonymous c.1970

   via verdeau

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8. Notes: 12 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   Giuseppe Incorpora ~Palermo - Catacombe dei Cappuccini,1870s-80s

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9. Notes: 28 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   View in the Catacombs,Paris,1861

   by Nadar 

   [also,more catacombs]

   Getty Museum

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10. Notes: 665 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    

    Capuchin Crypt in Rome

    via La Magie du Bouddha

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11. Notes: 17 / 3 years ago 
    

    obscure find of the day,possibly from Capuchin catacombs of Palermo

    [see also]

    thanks to our skull lovin’ friend,amputrex

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12. Notes: 59 / 3 years ago  from turnofthecentury
    

    turnofthecentury:Palermo Catacombs

    [also here & here]

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13. Notes: 33 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    

    Denise Colomb ~Dans les catacombes,Paris,1953

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14. Notes: 153 / 3 years ago  from turnofthecentury
    

    more skulls from Paul Frecker

    Giuseppe Incorpora~The catacombs of the Capuchin monks at Palermo

    [i forgot i posted this this earlier on turnofthecentury ;]

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15. Notes: 19 / 3 years ago  from bookmarklet
    

    more skull/z:Nadar~The Catacombs 1861

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