My great grandfathers grandmother Mary Irber (1884 – 1967). Photo taken sometime in the early 1900s
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My great grandfathers grandmother Mary Irber (1884 – 1967). Photo taken sometime in the early 1900s
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That’s pretty liberal for back then right? Was she famous for something?
It looks like her stockings or whatever have built in knee pads.
Do we tell him about great gam gam?
She si beautiful
Otherwise known as your third great-grandmother
She was cabaret artist from Munich? She must have had some interesting stories. Do you have other pictures of her that aren’t already online?
She must have been pretty famous, for someone from the early 1900’s there’s a lot of photos of her online.
r/OldSchoolHot
…just saying
When she’s good, she’s good, but when she’s bad, she’s even better.
I love everything about this photo.
Ohhhh she’s so great
Your great great great grandmother was born less than 20 years before my great grandmother.
Are you really young?
Nice Socks.
Hi OP! Your Great-Great-Great Grandmother sure was something. She was an artist – a model and performer – in Munich, who was famous in her own lifetime. Her work absolutely scandalized the moralists of early-20th-century Germany, though she kept at it quite successfully for a long time.
Germany was a VERY interesting place in the early 1900’s (pre-war): if you’re interested in looking into what your gran-gran’s life may have been like (or the people she may have influenced), I can certainly recommend some books.
And to all the folks saying she was a porn star: only kind of. She was a stage actor, cabaret dancer/singer, and model with a reputation for sexual imagery and content – we would not (today) identify it as pornography, though at the time it was certainly seen as scandalous. She was more akin to a modern burlesque dancer.
Was she a prostitute? Not as such, no – but did she sleep with people for money? Absolutely, without a doubt (though again, it wouldn’t have been that unusual for women in her position to do so). Less prostitute, more sugar baby.
IMO your gran-gran was a badass, a pioneer for women’s sexual liberation and queer liberation in fermenting a kind of cultural revolution in late-industrial Germany.
That seems like a long line of young parents…
Are you three?
My great grandmother was about this age in 1900…
Shit. I AM “grandpa” old. That stings.
Mad how many generations it take you to get back to 1900.
I was born in 1985 and my grandfather was born in 1898.
She from LaGrange?
Something tells me she hunted vampires on the side.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking, etc, etc.
Those stocking are straight fire.
Actress Mary Irber in a Risque Boudoir shot, portrait by Heinrich.
A quick Google shows that she’d done a number of boudoir shots, and all of those I’ve seen are remarkably tasteful and artistic.
Mary (Marie) Irber
born: 1884, Langenisarhofen (Germany)
died: August 2nd 1967, Munich (Germany)
Mary Irber was a popular German cabaret artist, dancer and singer at Munich/Germany. She had performances on Munich theatre stages, in example the “Intimes Theater”. A few moralists called here stage-outfit quite indecent.
Someone’s granny was a “bad girl”. Back then showing any kind of shoulder or leg- even with stockings on-was considered to be immoral and “loose” behavior. So congrats.. your great, great granny was a badass who gave no shits.
Great Great grandma looks like a popular gal
Your great great great grandmother died in 1967? That doesn’t seem right
This makes me feel old and I’m 35. My mom’s dad was born in 1912.
How old are you, OP? I ask because my _grandmother_ was born in 1884.
Ye Olde SEND NUDES.
I recognize this. It’s from the April, 1907 issue of Hustler.
scandalous fo sure
Wait a minute…is that her ankle?
Dayum. What’s her deal? She single?
Math is not adding up here.
Spicy
Posting family nudes is not ok fam
Gam gam??
Wow. Besides her being incredibly beautiful, this photo is stunning.
Would you mind if I save it and print it for my small collection of photos like this? Most of the others I have (8) are relatives I obviously never knew.
Where are your ancestors from? I’m just so curious. Those stockings are like nothing I’ve ever seen.
p.s. I’m not perving on your gggm haha
Pretty racy for that time period isn’t it?
Is this considered risque or nudes for the time period? I think it’s funny, these were private pictures and now strangers are looking at them.
wow, so the fashion at the time is good girl on the outside but you lowkey goth? cool
She was most likely a prostitute when you look at her garments. Women or anyone who was a sex worker has to wear distinguishable garments from the rest of society.
Only Nans
That’s a scandalous photo for the time.
For my Dad, born in 1900, this type of photo was intensely personal, or hotter than a Playmate.
So you’re not descended from the Romanov’s?
That’s a picture! I’m 55 and my Grandfather was Born in 1889 and my Grandmother in 1905. Playas then playas now.
beautiful
That woman went from not being able to vote, probably knowing someone who fought in the civil war, horse and buggy, no indoor plumbing or electricity to 2 years shy of us landing on the freaking moon. Amazing.
She was a HUSSY