Fame & Fortune

hometoursandotherstuff:

through-a-historic-lens:

Don’t go to Spain (UK, 1970s)

through-a-historic-lens:

Don’t throw stones, Iraq, 2004

thunderstruck9:

John Craxton (British, 1922-2009), Eleni Psari, 6 August 1947. Gouache and conté crayon on board, 60.2 x 44.5 cm.

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publicdomainreview:

Published by the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company in 1917, this little book’s pages are entirely blank. More on it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/why-women-should-not-vote

through-a-historic-lens:

Cigarette holder for nudists, 1938

(via instamatik)

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nobrashfestivity:

Tattoos for Criminals, Edo period

(via nobrashfestivity)

jointhesoftrevolution-blog:

Girl on roller skates looks on at British Soldier in Ireland. January, 1972.

(via yestertears)

through-a-historic-lens:

Anti-masturbation cartoon published in the ‘The Sexual System and its Derangements’, an 1875 book published in New York and written by one Emery C. Abbey.

cuties-in-codices:

origen castrates himself
(so he can instruct nuns without suspicion or temptation)
miniature from a copy of le roman de la rose by guillaume de lorris and jean de meung, illustrated by robinet testard, france, c. 1490-1500
source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195, fol. 122v

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage:

Aga mobil type 4346 (Sweden, 1963)

venceslaugama:

lucidpast:

Earl Staub, inventor of the flexible straw, 1972