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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.

vintagevision: centuriespast: Cycles Clesse, Bureaux & Magasins, 21 Rue N. D. de Nazareth Emile Clouet (French) Printer: Kossuth & Cie., Paris. c. 1900. Lithograph MoMA Wow, I would so not recommend cycling in that get-up, unless you wanted to end up like Isadora Duncan!

vintagevision:

centuriespast:

Cycles Clesse, Bureaux & Magasins, 21 Rue N. D. de Nazareth

Emile Clouet (French)

Printer: Kossuth & Cie., Paris. c. 1900. Lithograph

MoMA

Wow, I would so not recommend cycling in that get-up, unless you wanted to end up like Isadora Duncan!

questionableadvice: ~ Road Book of Boston and Vicinity for Bicyclers, Riders and Drivers, Charles A. Underwood, Ed., 1893“The only boarding stable for Bicycles in Boston”Note: I love the way it takes human ideas and language a while to catch up to new technology. This is an ad for a “boarding stable” ( historically a place to leave your horses) for bicycles where you can “put your wheel up at the Inn” and it can be “cleaned and cared for” while you do your business in town. Personally I like to imagine all the bicycles having tea while they wait, but I’m weird that way….

questionableadvice:

~ Road Book of Boston and Vicinity for Bicyclers, Riders and Drivers, Charles A. Underwood, Ed., 1893

“The only boarding stable for Bicycles in Boston”

Note: I love the way it takes human ideas and language a while to catch up to new technology. This is an ad for a “boarding stable” ( historically a place to leave your horses) for bicycles where you can “put your wheel up at the Inn” and it can be “cleaned and cared for” while you do your business in town.

Personally I like to imagine all the bicycles having tea while they wait, but I’m weird that way….

questionableadvice: calumet412: ~ Chicago Tribune, 1899“I must confess that I am not an advocate of the use of the bicycle among women, when viewed from a morality phase.” “Captain of Detectives … says that the use of the wheel tends to evil.”

questionableadvice:

calumet412:

~ Chicago Tribune, 1899

“I must confess that I am not an advocate of the use of the bicycle among women, when viewed from a morality phase.”

“Captain of Detectives … says that the use of the wheel tends to evil.”

(Source: calumet412)

1bicycle: Springwood Cycling Club by Blue Mountains Library - Local Studies on Flickr. About 1912

1bicycle:

Springwood Cycling Club by Blue Mountains Library - Local Studies on Flickr.

About 1912

socalledbohemian: questionableadvice: ~ Etiquette for Americans, by A Woman of Fashion, 1898 Next time I’m on my bike, I’ll remember to take my sailor hat with me.

socalledbohemian:

questionableadvice:

~ Etiquette for Americans, by A Woman of Fashion, 1898

Next time I’m on my bike, I’ll remember to take my sailor hat with me.

kingofthesavages: Man with a bicycle Date: [between 1895 and 1910] Creator: Bartle Brothers Format: Glass plate negative

kingofthesavages:

Man with a bicycle 
Date: [between 1895 and 1910] 
Creator: Bartle Brothers 
Format: Glass plate negative

(Source: archives.gov.on.ca)

glasscaseofemotion: I need to find this book because I think this is what’s missing from my life. I long for the smugness of fancy cycling.

glasscaseofemotion:

I need to find this book because I think this is what’s missing from my life. I long for the smugness of fancy cycling.

(Source: forgottenantiquities)

cabbagingcove: Now good digestionwait on appetiteAnd health on both  No idea what this means, but I’m sure it’s true, because why else would there be pennyfarthing tricycles? Those signify true truthiness in my world. Medical Register of New England. Francis H. Brown. 1888.

cabbagingcove:

Now good digestion
wait on appetite
And health on both 

No idea what this means, but I’m sure it’s true, because why else would there be pennyfarthing tricycles? Those signify true truthiness in my world.

Medical Register of New England. Francis H. Brown. 1888.

nyyankee2jeter: roger sterling, whatchu doin?

nyyankee2jeter:

roger sterling, whatchu doin?

(Source: villenoire, via 30rockingnewyork)

forsonya: yeoldenews: The classic “run around with a wheel-barrow” argument seals the fate of bicycles everywhere.

forsonya:

yeoldenews:

The classic “run around with a wheel-barrow” argument seals the fate of bicycles everywhere.