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.
Mother and her four daughters from the Civil War era possibly reading a letter from the front. CDV photograph.
The carte de visite (abbreviated CDV) was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero. It was usually made of an albumen print (2.125 in x 3.5 in), which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card (2.5 in x 4 in).
Signs of Conflict
There is an amazing new online database of posters from Lebanon’s long civil war dating between 1975 and 1991. It represents work from all the involved political parties and covers a spectrum of topics ranging from martyrdom, nationalism, commemoration, foreign intervention, allegiance, power and politics… This is the culmination of many years of work of a professor I had the pleasure of studying with under during my years at the American University of Beirut… Zeina Maasri. Enjoy browsing! For those not interested in the political aspect of the collection, it does offer an amazing collection of Arabic design and typography from the recent past.
A Union soldier holding the tattered flag of the Eighth PA Infantry during the American Civil War. USA, 1864.
‘A Family Quarrel’ - Uncle Sam (holding a torn map of the United States) argues with a lady wearing an 1860s Confederate flag pinny as a slave tiptoes by. Cartoon published by Brady, New York - 1861 to ‘70
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Texan woman with fashionable contemporary jewelry and hairstyle - 1868.
From Southern Methodist University archives.
