portrait-photo

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.

hominisaevum:

Guinea pigs were exotic pets during the Renaissance

picture 1: Detail of The Garden of Eden by Jan Brueghel the Elder.

picture 2: Detail of The entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark by Jan Brueghel the Elder.

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atompunk: from an informative pamphlet sent out to residents of Nevada regarding open-air nuclear testing in their area. (Picture and caption taken from Atomic-Annihilation: 1955… you are about to participate)

atompunk:

from an informative pamphlet sent out to residents of Nevada regarding open-air nuclear testing in their area.
(Picture and caption taken from Atomic-Annihilation: 1955… you are about to participate)

atompunk: “You are in a very real sense active participants in the Nation’s atomic test program.” From a letter attached to an informative pamphlet sent out to residents of Nevada regarding open-air nuclear testing in their area. (Letter taken from Atomic-Annihilation: 1955… you are about to participate)

atompunk:

“You are in a very real sense active participants in the Nation’s atomic test program.”

From a letter attached to an informative pamphlet sent out to residents of Nevada regarding open-air nuclear testing in their area.

(Letter taken from Atomic-Annihilation: 1955… you are about to participate)