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.
Carousel advertisements from the turn of the 20th Century. Interestingly he Smithsonian carousel on the Mall is a Herschell. Want to know more about our carousel’s history? http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/08/oom-pah-pah-carousel-time/
The Fay Manufacturing Company, 1888
~ The Alphabet of Flowers and Fruit, c. 1871-1890
via University of Washington
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“DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD DIE!”
Note: Given the dramatic advertisement I assumed Fenning’s Children’s Powders would be another Victorian era quack medicine but surprisingly they are still sold today and contain paracetamol (acetaminophen).
Hard sell - Victorian style.
~ Bohemia Nugget, May 2, 1902 (Cottage Grove, Oregon)
via Historic Oregon NewspapersI love this so much. Even the name of the source. Bohemia Nugget. How great is that name?
They don’t write ‘em like that anymore.
~ “Ready-Made Ad”, The Liquor Book, by Charles Austin Bates, 1899
“The Germans are the healthiest looking people in the world and you know what beer drinkers they are.”Well, I’m sold! Bring on the pure, perfect beer! Deliver it to my home!
Science!
~ Grand Rapids Wholesale Opticians, 1903
via MediaMed
We don’t need no stinkin’ Opthamologists, we got the ‘Ocularscope’
Guernsey Moore, Edison Phonographs, 1908
From Taschen’s “All-American Ads 1900-1919”.
(via Gatoochy)
