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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.

Pall Mall series of National monuments no. 6. The Statue of Liberty, New York. (1914) “A 1914 Pall Mall advetisement, using Lady Liberty to exemplify the American freedoms that smoking brings!”

Pall Mall series of National monuments no. 6. The Statue of Liberty, New York. (1914)

“A 1914 Pall Mall advetisement, using Lady Liberty to exemplify the American freedoms that smoking brings!”

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D’Orcy’s Airship Manual: An International Register of Airships with a Compendium of the Airship’s Elementary Mechanics (HT Yours in a White Wine Sauce)

D’Orcy’s Airship Manual: An International Register of Airships with a Compendium of the Airship’s Elementary Mechanics (HT Yours in a White Wine Sauce)

The Daily Mirror (Monday, 17th February, 1913) (HT Airminded)

The Daily Mirror (Monday, 17th February, 1913)

(HT Airminded)

get-to-know-cz:

The Slav Epic (in Czech: Slovanská epopej) is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha between 1910 and 1928. The cycle depicts the history of Czechs and other Slavic nations.

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carolathhabsburg: Luxembourg Princesses. Mids 1910s.

carolathhabsburg:

Luxembourg Princesses. Mids 1910s.

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carolathhabsburg: Gretchen Hartman. Late 1910s.

carolathhabsburg:

Gretchen Hartman. Late 1910s.

dreigroschenoper: Grace la Rue, c. 1910s An actress and singer who had a very successful vaudeville career. She appeared in several silent films, including two singing shorts in 1929 and in Mae West’s She Done Him Wrong in 1933.

dreigroschenoper:

Grace la Rue, c. 1910s

An actress and singer who had a very successful vaudeville career. She appeared in several silent films, including two singing shorts in 1929 and in Mae West’s She Done Him Wrong in 1933.

1bicycle: Springwood Cycling Club by Blue Mountains Library - Local Studies on Flickr. About 1912

1bicycle:

Springwood Cycling Club by Blue Mountains Library - Local Studies on Flickr.

About 1912

legrandcirque: Crown Prince Franz Joseph of Thurn & Taxis and Prince Carl August, 1910-1915. Source: Library of Congress

legrandcirque:

Crown Prince Franz Joseph of Thurn & Taxis and Prince Carl August, 1910-1915.

Source: Library of Congress

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nosensemakessense:

theloudestvoice:

A few of the silent actresses of the 1910s (because the teens often get ignored in favor of the twenties, and that’s just not fair!):

Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Pearl White, Mary Pickford, Olive Thomas, Theda Bara, Mary Miles Minter, Mabel Normand, Miriam Cooper.

Three foxes on the bottom row. FOXES.