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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.

collective-history: Miners with a police escort during the 1929 Glasgow strike, 1929

collective-history:

Miners with a police escort during the 1929 Glasgow strike, 1929

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lostsplendor: Germany by Motorcar, c. 1929 Away we go

lostsplendor:

Germany by Motorcar, c. 1929

Away we go

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lostsplendor: Katherine Cornell, The Age of Innocence c. 1929 via The New York Public Library

lostsplendor:

Katherine Cornell, The Age of Innocence c. 1929 via The New York Public Library

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mirrormaskcamera: Tamara de Lempicka — Die Dame — July 1, 1929 (via The Pictorial Arts: Cool and Confident) Tamara de Lempicka was an iconic painter of the jazz age, and this is an iconic self-portrait of her as the cool and confident woman of the times.

mirrormaskcamera:

Tamara de Lempicka — Die Dame — July 1, 1929

(via The Pictorial Arts: Cool and Confident)

Tamara de Lempicka was an iconic painter of the jazz age, and this is an iconic self-portrait of her as the cool and confident woman of the times.

German coins struck to commemorate LZ127 round-the-world flight. http://lord-k.livejournal.com/646318.html

German coins struck to commemorate LZ127 round-the-world flight.

http://lord-k.livejournal.com/646318.html

deforest: Robert Montgomery photographed July 20th, 1929.

deforest:

Robert Montgomery photographed July 20th, 1929.

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questionableadvice: ~ San Francisco Blue Book, 1929via Internet Archive(click to enlarge)“Those whose position in life has accustomed them to the finest will appreciate the ultra modern facilities of the Californian and its atmosphere of distinguished living.” “Such a lovely place”

questionableadvice:

~ San Francisco Blue Book, 1929
via Internet Archive
(click to enlarge)

“Those whose position in life has accustomed them to the finest will appreciate the ultra modern facilities of the Californian and its atmosphere of distinguished living.”

“Such a lovely place”

Walter Luyken as corporation Student in Bonn (Germany) (1928/29) (HT Wikipedia)

Walter Luyken as corporation Student in Bonn (Germany) (1928/29)

(HT Wikipedia)

atompunk: Tumblers Ron Hubbard, Arthur Creeper and another man performing on a beach in South Australia on 14 June 1929. They were a well known South Australian tumbling act which appeared at the Tivoli Theatre. URL images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/61500/B61253.htm SOURCE: State Library of South Australia (Flickr)

atompunk:

Tumblers Ron Hubbard, Arthur Creeper and another man performing on a beach in South Australia on 14 June 1929. They were a well known South Australian tumbling act which appeared at the Tivoli Theatre.
URL images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/61500/B61253.htm

SOURCE: State Library of South Australia (Flickr)

missfolly: Advertisement: 1929 Hupmobile, targeting upscale buyers, by Bernard Boutet de Monvel

missfolly:

Advertisement: 1929 Hupmobile, targeting upscale buyers, by Bernard Boutet de Monvel