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.
Photo postcard of a Victorian couple sitting in a studio mock-up of a hot-air balloon. Photo by J. E. Ballantyne, from Fantasy Travel: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips.
The Counter-Revolutionary Blog:
German-Texan postcard (1916) expressing solidarity with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary…and The Alamo.
