occultronic:

Vintage Robots shared from FaceBook

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criminalwisdom:

“One never knows when the homosexual is about, he may appear normal”

Old anti-homosexual warning video - “Boys Beware”

thehystericalsociety:

Boogeymen - part of a series of eerie stereoviews - dated 1923 (Via)

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sporadicq:

Emblems from Michael Maier’s book Atalanta Fugiens (Atalanta Fleeing), published at Oppenheim in 1617 by the firm of Johann Theodor de Bry.
It’s an alchemical text in a strikingly unusual form: it comprises fifty sections, where each section consists of a score of a short fugue (‘in two canonical parts over a cantus firmus’), a motto, an engraved emblematic image, a Latin verse, and a few pages of cryptic commentary. It takes its title from the legendary tale of Atalanta’s race with Hippomenes. In its simultaneous presentation of music, image, poetry and prose, it is a singular piece of Baroque multimedia. (Source)

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celestialmazer:

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A DRESS

Restored dress as worn by Ellen Terry in her 1888 portayal of Lady Macbeth.

“When Ellen starred alongside Henry Irving in Macbeth in 1888, there was not a wide choice of fabrics available in England, and Alice could not find the colours she wanted to achieve her effects. She wanted one dress to ‘look as much like soft chain armour as I could, and yet have something that would give the appearance of the scales of a serpent.’ (Mrs. J. Comyns Carr’s ‘Reminiscences’. London: Hutchinson, 1926) Mrs. Nettlship found a twist of soft green silk and blue tinsel in Bohemia and this was crocheted to achieve the chain mail effect.

The dress hung beautifully but: ‘we did not think that it was brilliant enough, so it was sewn all over with real green beetle wings, and a narrow border in Celtic designs, worked out in rubies and diamonds, hemmed all the edges. To this was added a cloak of shot velvet in heather tones, upon which great griffens were embroidered in flame-coloured tinsel. The wimple, or veil, was held in place by a circlet of rubies, and two long plaits twisted with gold hung to her knees.’

the history blog.
the guardian
V&A 
blogspot

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labelleotero:

“I’d never seen Russian boots before—remember this was 1909.  She came in black suede Russian boots, black coat, a big band of fox fur, hair like medusa, all held in black tulle.  She took off the tulle and her eyes were blackened with kohl…fantastic!”

—Diana Vreeland on her childhood encounter with Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein

“The clothes she wore were beyond fashion, for without effort everything contributed to make her seem like an apparition…Ida wore an ermine coat.  It was open and exposed the frail chest and slender neck which emerged from a white feathery garment…Her partly-veiled head with dark hair moving gracefully from the temples as though the wind were smoothing it back.”

—Romaine Brooks, painter

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fuckyeahvintageillustration:

‘A House of Pomegranates’ by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Ben Kutcher. Published 1918 by Moffat, Yard and Company, New York.

See the complete book here.

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mrsdentonorahippo:

unicornfromhell:

Happy Easter

The one in the middle at the bottom looks like Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The rest of them just look like satan.

eleanorapaisleyfanclub:

Found this amazing book recently…

La Casa De Cita: Mexican Photographs from the Belle Epoque