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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

maudelynn: “hallowe’en jollity!” Adorable vintage John Winsch Halloween Postcard c.1914

maudelynn:

“hallowe’en jollity!”

Adorable vintage John Winsch Halloween Postcard c.1914

"Books often differ even if they’re part of the same edition. From birth they all have distinguishing details. And each book lives a different life: it can lose pages, or have them added or replaced, or acquire a new binding…. Over the years two books printed on the same press can end up looking entirely different."

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas, p. 60

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themauveroom: Alix and her Scottie dog: 1900. According to Anna Vyrubova, it was a very unpleasant creature that was always nipping at everyone’s ankles. (I can’t currently remember or find his name.)

themauveroom:

Alix and her Scottie dog: 1900. According to Anna Vyrubova, it was a very unpleasant creature that was always nipping at everyone’s ankles. (I can’t currently remember or find his name.)

4r7inme: Abbott Handerson Thayer - Stevenson Memorial (1903)

4r7inme:

Abbott Handerson Thayer - Stevenson Memorial (1903)

monstresetmerveilles: Abbott Handerson Thayer, Winged Figure (The Angel), 1918 (Etats-Unis) (via)

monstresetmerveilles:

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Winged Figure (The Angel), 1918 (Etats-Unis)

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distinguishedcompany: firsttimeuser: Tramps fighting on R.R. train.. A railroad worker with a club, maybe a hobo nighthawk, straddles train cars while chasing off a tramp. Brown Brothers, c1905. Probably posed. From Shorpy.

distinguishedcompany:

firsttimeuser:

Tramps fighting on R.R. train..

A railroad worker with a club, maybe a hobo nighthawk, straddles train cars while chasing off a tramp. Brown Brothers, c1905. Probably posed. From Shorpy.

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vintagegal: “Time to Start Gazing,” for the cover of Film Fun Magazine, June 1938 by Enoch Bolles

vintagegal:

“Time to Start Gazing,” for the cover of Film Fun Magazine, June 1938 by Enoch Bolles

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speciesbarocus:

Theophilus Christian - Cometen, Propheten (1665).

books0977: Ava Gardner reading and sunbathing (c.1940s). Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South. At age 18, her picture in the window of her brother-in-law’s New York photo studio brought her to the attention of MGM, leading quickly to Hollywood and a film contract based strictly on her beauty.

books0977:

Ava Gardner reading and sunbathing (c.1940s).

Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South. At age 18, her picture in the window of her brother-in-law’s New York photo studio brought her to the attention of MGM, leading quickly to Hollywood and a film contract based strictly on her beauty.

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books0977: Gene Tierney reading a script (1941). Sundown. United Artists, 1941. With Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders. Tierney was featured on all the posters, but you’ll have to wait a good long time to see her. Like many of her films, the emphasis here is on her otherworldly beauty at the expense of her performance. She’s a beautiful blank, her exotic looks enhanced by the makeup crew to make her more believable as a half-French, half-Arab temptress.

books0977:

Gene Tierney reading a script (1941).

Sundown. United Artists, 1941. With Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders.

Tierney was featured on all the posters, but you’ll have to wait a good long time to see her. Like many of her films, the emphasis here is on her otherworldly beauty at the expense of her performance. She’s a beautiful blank, her exotic looks enhanced by the makeup crew to make her more believable as a half-French, half-Arab temptress.

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