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.
‘In March read the books you’ve always meant to read’
March 25, 1941, WPA Art Project Chicago (HT Brainpickings)
![For greater knowledge on more subjects use your library more often
Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lph33cllnM1qdjwldo1_500.jpg)
For greater knowledge on more subjects use your library more often
Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941]
(Source: runswithvamps)
(via Save our Wild Life - WPA Posters - Vintagraph)
Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Trumpeter Swan. Illustrated by Dorothy Waugh, circa 1940.
