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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.

tuesday-johnson: ca. 1860-70s, [tintype portrait of two bearded gentlemen,  David & Thomas Havens, identified on verso] via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1860-70s, [tintype portrait of two bearded gentlemen,  David & Thomas Havens, identified on verso]

via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics

tuesday-johnson: ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a Chinese man holding a flower], William Shew via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a Chinese man holding a flower], William Shew

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

stellar-raven: Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1870-1880)

stellar-raven:

Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1870-1880)

peterjaussie: Poster 21 by CharmaineZoe on Flickr.

peterjaussie:

Poster 21 by CharmaineZoe on Flickr.

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thecivilwarparlor: Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl-Pre-Civil War  Women’s dress in to the Civil War, Women loved the idea of a tiny waist with yards of material in the skirt. The corset was being worn along with a metal hoop and crinoline to make the desired effect of a tiny waist with a huge skirt. Albert Sands Southworth  (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811–1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts)

thecivilwarparlor:

Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl-Pre-Civil War 

Women’s dress in to the Civil War, Women loved the idea of a tiny waist with yards of material in the skirt. The corset was being worn along with a metal hoop and crinoline to make the desired effect of a tiny waist with a huge skirt.

Albert Sands Southworth  (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811–1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts)

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heaveninawildflower: Huile de Macassar Naquet. 60 années de succès ; se vend partout (1877) by Jules Chéret (1836-1932). Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France

heaveninawildflower:

Huile de Macassar Naquet. 60 années de succès ; se vend partout (1877) by Jules Chéret (1836-1932).

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France

allaboutmary: Maria mit dem Geneigten Haupt A 19th century engraving of the image of Our Lady of the Bowed Head in the Carmelite church in Vienna, Austria.

allaboutmary:

Maria mit dem Geneigten Haupt

A 19th century engraving of the image of Our Lady of the Bowed Head in the Carmelite church in Vienna, Austria.

mudwerks: (by ggaabboo) photographer: Koller Károly - Budapest / Hungary… Koller Ödönné, szü. Bogyay Olga

mudwerks:

(by ggaabboo)

photographer: Koller Károly - Budapest / Hungary…

Koller Ödönné, szü. Bogyay Olga

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arcadeparade: Rollerskating nineteenth-century style in Melbourne. “They see me rollin’ ; they hatin’”

arcadeparade:

Rollerskating nineteenth-century style in Melbourne.

“They see me rollin’ ; they hatin’”

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momalibrary:

Un Autre Monde by the 19th century French caricaturist J.J. Grandville. He was a subject of study by Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin and also admired by the Surrealist Circle in 1920s Paris, where his personified objects, animals and vegetation were seen as precursors to surrealist imagery. Un Autre Monde was printed in 1844 and is one of the oldest books in our collection. -ds

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