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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.

msbphoto: Hutterite children. Springdale Colony, outside White Sulphur Springs, Montana, USA. 2007.

msbphoto:

Hutterite children. Springdale Colony, outside White Sulphur Springs, Montana, USA. 2007.

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throateyeandknucklebone: Is it just my imagination or are half of these children giving us Blue Steel? legrandcirque: P. Dittrich, The children of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II of Egypt, 1906. Source: Travelers in the Middle East Archive

throateyeandknucklebone:

Is it just my imagination or are half of these children giving us Blue Steel?

legrandcirque:

P. Dittrich, The children of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II of Egypt, 1906.

Source: Travelers in the Middle East Archive

questionableadvice: ~ The American Magazine, vol. XCII, July 1921 - December 1921via google books(click to enlarge)“If your boy hasn’t a gun - one that is all his own - he is missing one of the biggest things in life” Indeed

questionableadvice:

~ The American Magazine, vol. XCII, July 1921 - December 1921
via google books
(click to enlarge)

“If your boy hasn’t a gun - one that is all his own - he is missing one of the biggest things in life”

Indeed

itsherfactory: Vogue Paris September 2011

itsherfactory:

Vogue Paris September 2011

(Source: intothewordless, via perstephsanscouronne)

cabbagingcove: “Boy With Squirrel” Fantastic! 1765 painting. John Singleton Copley, Boy with a Squirrel. 1765

cabbagingcove:

“Boy With Squirrel” Fantastic!

1765 painting.

John Singleton Copley, Boy with a Squirrel. 1765

oldrags: Woman’s bodice and a dress for a toddler, 1865 the Netherlands, De Gracieuse

oldrags:

Woman’s bodice and a dress for a toddler, 1865 the Netherlands, De Gracieuse

cabbagingcove: “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag…” - 1932 I’m gathering that this person’s troubles consist of children and a puppy…

cabbagingcove:

“Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag…” - 1932

I’m gathering that this person’s troubles consist of children and a puppy…

"Do not leave children to their own devices near a lion’s cage."

— Good Manners for All Occasions, Margaret E. Sangster, 1921. From Wicked Etiquette by Sarah Kortum, 1995. (via ingridrichter)

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slightperceptualproblem: [Lapland children, possibly from Sweden] by New York Public Library on Flickr. Augustus F. Sherman, Ellis Island, ca. 1906-14.

slightperceptualproblem:

[Lapland children, possibly from Sweden] by New York Public Library on Flickr.

Augustus F. Sherman, Ellis Island, ca. 1906-14.

Very cute.

Very cute.

(Source: mysteryof1990)