portrait-photo

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.

cynicalpelican: 1910 RCA Victrola ad

cynicalpelican:

1910 RCA Victrola ad

stilllifequickheart: Ambrose Patterson Garden Flowers 1914-20

stilllifequickheart:

Ambrose Patterson

Garden Flowers

1914-20

jimmystagger: 1910 Spaulding Athletics soccer rulebook.

jimmystagger:

1910 Spaulding Athletics soccer rulebook.

happygolovely: Illustration from The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book; containing The Sleeping Beauty; Bluebeard; The baby’s own alphabet: with the original coloured designs by Walter Crane. (New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1911) . Via the NYPL.

happygolovely:

Illustration from The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book; containing The Sleeping Beauty; Bluebeard; The baby’s own alphabet: with the original coloured designs by Walter Crane. (New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1911) .

Via the NYPL.

mothgirlwings: Nell Brinkley C. 1910s

mothgirlwings:

Nell Brinkley

C. 1910s

stilllifequickheart: Ambrose McEvoy La Reprise 1912

stilllifequickheart:

Ambrose McEvoy

La Reprise

1912

joymuseum: 1918 Source: old-picture.com

joymuseum:

1918

Source: old-picture.com

missfolly: The Hammock by Gustave Courbet, 1844

missfolly:

The Hammock by Gustave Courbet, 1844

smexysecretary: William Heath, published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London, May 12, 1830.

smexysecretary:

William Heath, published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London, May 12, 1830.

meringuemasquee: The Talking Oak, William Maw Egley, 1857

meringuemasquee:

The Talking Oak, William Maw Egley, 1857

(Source: ohmeringue)