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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.

judywald: Lillian Russell 1893 retro-vintage-photography.blogspot

judywald:

Lillian Russell 1893

retro-vintage-photography.blogspot

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turnofthecentury: Lillian Russell,c.1893 by W.M. Morrison, Chicago from LOC

turnofthecentury:

Lillian Russell,c.1893 by W.M. Morrison, Chicago

from LOC

pearlconcubine: Lillian Russell was once described as a “butterscotch sundae of a woman, as beautiful as a tulip of beer with a high white collar.”

pearlconcubine:

Lillian Russell was once described as a “butterscotch sundae of a woman, as beautiful as a tulip of beer with a high white collar.”

maudelynn: Lillian Russell as Patience at the Bijou Opera House in New York, 1882

maudelynn:

Lillian Russell as Patience at the Bijou Opera House in New York, 1882

"what, after all, is there great in being beautiful? to be a great woman, a great person, one must have suffered, even suffered in great crises. what have i done that i should be famous — nothing but powdered a bit gently the cheeks that god gave me and smoothed the hair that i was born with, laughed and proven a faultless set of teeth. any grinning idol, well painted, can do as well, but the real women, the big women, are those who toil and never write of it, those who labor and never cry of it, those who forfeit all and never seek reward."

— lillian russell (via monblues)

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ophelialives: Lillian Russell 1903 by sunnybrook100 on Flickr.

ophelialives:

Lillian Russell 1903 by sunnybrook100 on Flickr.

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sibyl—vane: Lillian Russell.

sibyl—vane:

Lillian Russell.

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rosecarousel: Lillian Russell

rosecarousel:

Lillian Russell

carolathhabsburg: Miss Lillian Russell. This is one of the most prettiest Victorian-edwardian stage actress.

carolathhabsburg:

Miss Lillian Russell. This is one of the most prettiest Victorian-edwardian stage actress.