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.
Alma Youlin, 1905
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“The Devil’s Auction” - 1904
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Richards and Pringle’s Famous Georgia Minstrels
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I don’t know what he knows about me, but I’m afraid of what he’ll do with that information. D:
ca. 1900 poster advertisement for “Alexander: The Man Who Knows”, from Minneapolis, MN.
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1902 - ”Chas. H. Yale’s Everlasting Devil’s auction”
From NYPL Archives
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Molly Logan
1896 Cigarette Card Hignett’s Cigarettes
That hat is crazy. It looks WAY more 1790 than 1890.
Originally by Hignett’s Cigarettes, digitized by NYPL Archives.
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1890s Cigarette Card - feat. Cavalieri
Produced by Ogden’s Guinea Gold Cigarettes, digitized by Wisconsin Historical Society.
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When your dog recommends you don’t go into acting, you probably shouldn’t.
A Book of Etiquette Entitled “Don’t do That”, For Sale By No News Dealers. William Collier, 1909.
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“A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” for the 1919 Ziegfeld Follies
Score by the inimitable Irving Berlin! I love Irving Berlin. :3
From the NYPL Archives
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