Elmer Paisley:

occultronic: Vintage Robots shared from FaceBook

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:17:42 -0400

Vintage Robots shared from FaceBook

criminalwisdom: “One never knows when the homosexual is about,...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:57:14 -0400

“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...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:54:51 -0400

thehystericalsociety:

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

ponderful: Maxfield Parrish, Jason and the Talking Oak...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:25:17 -0400

ponderful:

Maxfield Parrish, Jason and the Talking Oak (1910)

He looked up among the knotted branches and green leaves, and into the mysterious heart of the old tree.

sporadicq: Emblems from Michael Maier’s book Atalanta Fugiens...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:22:24 -0400

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)

celestialmazer: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A DRESS Restored dress as...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:19:30 -0400

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.
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questionableadvice: ~ A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:56:24 -0400

questionableadvice:

~ A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding, by Daisy Eyebright, 1852

labelleotero: “I’d never seen Russian boots before—remember...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:10:04 -0400

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

She’s dead…wrapped in plastic…

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:01:35 -0400

She’s dead…wrapped in plastic…

fuckyeahvintageillustration: ‘A House of Pomegranates’ by Oscar...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:11:55 -0400

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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Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:09:15 -0400

mrsdentonorahippo: unicornfromhell: Happy Easter The one in...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:08:37 -0400

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.

c0ssette: MOREAU, Gustave Oedipus and the Sphinx 1864. Moreau’s...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:18:41 -0400

c0ssette:

MOREAU, Gustave Oedipus and the Sphinx 1864.

Moreau’s interpretation of the Greek myth draws heavily on Ingres’ Oedipus and the Sphinx of 1808 (Musée du Louvre, Paris), which was exhibited in Paris in 1846 and 1855. Both painters chose to represent the moment when Oepidus confronted the winged monster in a rocky pass outside the city of Thebes. Unlike her other victims, he could answer her riddle and thus saved himself and the besieged Thebans. The painting was a success at the Salon of 1864; it won a medal and established Moreau’s reputation. Moreau made more than thirty studies for this work and many repetitions after it.

blackpaint20: The pipes of pan

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:14:49 -0400

blackpaint20:

The pipes of pan

eleanorapaisleyfanclub: Found this amazing book recently… La...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:13:41 -0400

eleanorapaisleyfanclub:

Found this amazing book recently…

La Casa De Cita: Mexican Photographs from the Belle Epoque

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Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:48:24 -0400

(via obcomar)

Photo

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:46:40 -0400

rubatosis

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:03:09 -0500

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, the kind that people compulsively hum or sing while walking in complete darkness, as if to casually remind the outside world, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here.

criminalwisdom: ONE NIGHT COUGH SYRUP The contents on this...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:33:41 -0500

criminalwisdom:

ONE NIGHT COUGH SYRUP

The contents on this label for a bottle of One Night Cough Syrup, from 100 years ago, included:, Alcohol (less than 1%),
Cannabis Indica F.E.
Chloroform
Morphia, Sulph.

Skillfully combined with a number of other ingredients.

The dosage was 3 x 1 half-teaspoonful.

Does “One Night” mean you won’t need it the next because you won’t be waking up in the morning?

poisonwasthecure: Dance of Death

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:08:04 -0500

poisonwasthecure:

Dance of Death