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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.

turner-d-century: theeverydaynothing: Christian Comic Book Slacktivist: But the strangest of all the Hartley-drawn Spire Christian Comics may be “The Gospel Blimp,” which was Hartley’s comic-book adaptation of the movie version of Joseph T. Bayly’s satirical book. In very broad strokes, “The Gospel Blimp” tells the story of a group of Christians in a small town who, inspired by the sight of the Good Year blimp, decide to get an airship of their own to reach their unsaved neighbors with the good news of salvation. The project becomes ever-more showy, obnoxious and ineffectual — they drop thousands of gospel tracts from the air and broadcast Bible verses in multiple languages over too-loud speakers. The clumsy and off-putting bungling of the blimp “ministry” is contrasted throughout the story with the clueless characters’ repeated failures to reach out to the “sinful” neighbors on a more human level.

turner-d-century:

theeverydaynothing:

Christian Comic Book

Slacktivist:

But the strangest of all the Hartley-drawn Spire Christian Comics may be “The Gospel Blimp,” which was Hartley’s comic-book adaptation of the movie version of Joseph T. Bayly’s satirical book.

In very broad strokes, “The Gospel Blimp” tells the story of a group of Christians in a small town who, inspired by the sight of the Good Year blimp, decide to get an airship of their own to reach their unsaved neighbors with the good news of salvation.

The project becomes ever-more showy, obnoxious and ineffectual — they drop thousands of gospel tracts from the air and broadcast Bible verses in multiple languages over too-loud speakers. The clumsy and off-putting bungling of the blimp “ministry” is contrasted throughout the story with the clueless characters’ repeated failures to reach out to the “sinful” neighbors on a more human level.

planeshots: French aviator Louis Paulhan makes record-breaking flight to 4,600 feet at the Los Angeles Air Meet in Dominguez Hills, 1910. The balloon in the background advertised the young Los Angeles Examiner.

planeshots:

French aviator Louis Paulhan makes record-breaking flight to 4,600 feet at the Los Angeles Air Meet in Dominguez Hills, 1910. The balloon in the background advertised the young Los Angeles Examiner.

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judywald: Myrna Loy

judywald:

Myrna Loy

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thedailyvictorian:

Men’s and boy’s nightshirts from the Sears and Roebuck catalog, 1900

edwardianera: Presenting a lovely group of hockey players, who may have been photographed in Tramore, Co. Waterford. March 24, 1904 

edwardianera:

Presenting a lovely group of hockey players, who may have been photographed in Tramore, Co. Waterford. March 24, 1904 

mudwerks: Edwardian portrait of unknown man, possibly Fred Watts (by whatsthatpicture)

mudwerks:

Edwardian portrait of unknown man, possibly Fred Watts (by whatsthatpicture)

edwardianera: Mosman Bay, Sydney Harbour, Australia early 1900s

edwardianera:

Mosman Bay, Sydney Harbour, Australia early 1900s

adiscourseongaming:

Wil Wheaton hosting a table top gaming show? Color me interested.

hatsfromhistory:

A Party Angling and The Angler’s Repast, engravings after George Morland, 1789. 

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questionableadvice: ~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of “Etiquette for Gentlemen”, 1847

questionableadvice:

~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of “Etiquette for Gentlemen”, 1847