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.
~ Recipes Tested by the Families of the Parish and Compiled by the Women’s Guild, 1921
via Internet Archive
ICE: “If you are not using it, you are not only behind the times, but you are missing one of the good things that makes life worth living.”Copywriters of the world, go ahead and go home now. You will never top this tagline.
Fairy with wings riding a bat? Kinda lazy.
Poster advertising Viola Tree’s Company performing ‘The Tempest’ by William Shakespeare at the Aldwych Theatre, London - Charles A Buchel (1872-1950) - Designed in 1904, Printed in 1921
ABC’s. Good Housekeeping October 1921. Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863-1935).
It was on the covers of Good Housekeeping that most people became familiar with Smith’s art. For over 15 years she painted the covers for one of America’s most popular magazines. Month after month, from December of 1917 through March of 1933, a new Jessie Willcox Smith image was on the newsstands and in countless homes. She painted the universal child, but the dresses and playsuits they wore helped shape the dressing habits of a generation of children.
~ Graham Electrical Autohorn, February 1921
via Grace’s Guide
“The Motor Horn Which Warns But Does Not Worry”
~ Manners and Conduct In School and Out, by The Deans of Girls in Chicago High Schools, 1921
via University of OregonAnyone who ever sat next to me during high school trips to see plays, especially Shakespeare: READ THIS. -_-
Also no spoilers!
Children’s Book Week poster 1921
(Source: antediluvianbychoice)
