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.
Art Nouveau restaurant in Paris,France: “La Fermette Marbeuf”, originally created around 1898-1900 as the dining room of Hôtel Langham, then covered up when the style had become unfashionable.It was rediscovered by accident in 1978 and then restored to life.
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“Le coup du Pere Francois” as practiced by the Parisian Apache or Hooligan. (HT Bartisu Society | “Father Frank’s trick”)
Voici le Boulevard du Temple à Paris, 1838.
This photograph always fascinates me. According to Wikipedia it contains the earliest reliably dated images of human beings - the man having his boots cleaned at the lower left, and, a bit fuzzier, the cleaner at work. (Here’s a bigger version.)
There’s nothing else in the street, because the exposure time (about 10 minutes!) was too long to catch pedestrians or street traffic moving at normal speed. The place is a ghost town. And it seems that getting your boots cleaned properly takes quite a while!
Métro Art et Métiers - Steampunk Metro Station - Paris
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Colour photographs of Paris taken between 1909 and 1930. There were too many for one photoset, click here for part 1 and here for part 2.
Click here for more.Almost a year ago I posted several colour photographs taken in Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century, you can see them here.
Colour photographs of Paris taken between 1909 and 1930. There were too many for one photoset, click here for par 2 and here for part 3.
Click here for more.Almost a year ago I posted several colour photographs taken in Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century, you can see them here.
Colour photographs of Paris taken between 1909 and 1930. There were too many for one photoset, click here for part 1 and here for part 3.
Click here for more.Almost a year ago I posted several colour photographs taken in Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century, you can see them here.
