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.
“Top Women” at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works, 1940-1945
Original caption:
Like Girls from Mars Are These “Top Women” at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works. Their Job Is to Clean Up at Regular Intervals Around The Tops of Twelve Blast Furnaces. As A Safety Precaution, the Girls Wear Oxygen Masks., 1940 - 1945
via The U.S. National Archives Flickr
~ Chicago Tribune, 1899
“I must confess that I am not an advocate of the use of the bicycle among women, when viewed from a morality phase.”
“Captain of Detectives … says that the use of the wheel tends to evil.”
(Source: calumet412)
Women, real or imagined, in neckties. More women need to do this, just my opinion.
~ Etiquette for Americans, by A Woman of Fashion, 1898
Next time I’m on my bike, I’ll remember to take my sailor hat with me.
~ The Young Man’s Guide, by William Alcott, 1846
No mention of coffee or tea - I think I see a loophole in his list of stimulants.
~ September 11th, 1911
via classifiedhumanity
“It is a significant fact that most college girls wear no hats at all.”
Women’s life class at the Chase School of Art, ca. 1896 / unidentified photographer. F. Luis Mora papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
