Yes! Because there really were black burlesque dancers back in the day.
bhof:
Vintage Black Burlesque: Rare images of bold and beautiful burlesque dancers from the past on Ebony.com
Absolutely awesome! Love these photos…
I think I’d go back to writing poetry again if I had one of these.
AntiqueTypewriters.com has a great section on the Crandall New Model, “one of the most beautiful typewriters ever made.”
It has a wonderful curved and ornate Victorian design and is lavishly decorated with hand painted roses, accented with inlaid mother-of-pearl!
Lucien S. Crandall was born in Broome County New York in 1844. He would become one of the great early typewriter pioneers during the 1860s and 1870s. He patented perhaps ten typewriters with six or so being manufactured. All of his designs are very intriguing and brilliantly imagined machines. The Crandall - New Model was his third typewriter to be manufactured but the first to have some success in sales.
The Crandall was the first typewriter to print from a single element or “type-sleeve”, well before IBM’s ‘Golf ball’ of 1961. The Crandall’s type-sleeve is a cylinder, about the size of your finger (see photo below), which rotates and rises up one or two positions before striking the roller, achieving 84 characters with only 28 keys. The type-sleeve is easy to remove, allowing for change of font style and character size.
Crandall, New Model (Thanks, Antique typewriter Collector!)
(Image via BoingBoing)
Scandalous!
From Jezebel:
One of the oldest pieces of British porn has been discovered in mud near the Putney Bridge in London. The artifact from the first century A.D. looks like it might feature two blobs wrestling, but it’s actually a kind of token used in brothels across the Roman Empire, which one could turn in for a particular sex act. It’s been handed over to the Museum of London, where it will provide cheap thrills to kids on field trips.
(Image via Jezebel)
I’m a little late in posting this, but check it out! It’s a vintage Mission Christmas! I love that the Mish had a “miracle mile”…
(Image via Mission Mission)
This image reminds me of one of my favorite books from my pre-teen years: Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book.
From How To Be A Retronaut:
‘A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of “…parting the veil of Faery…”. The device, which he called the “Spectobarathrum”, produced beautiful photo graphic plates he called “fatagravures”, through a now lost process. The original “Spectobarathrum” along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire.
‘The images were first made public in the 1890′s. They were presented in scientific lectures and were by and large ignored’
(Image via How To Be A Retronaut)
When I first saw this photo, it took my breath away…
From Jezebel:
This weekend the Lovers of Valdaro, two skeletons found wrapped in an embrace, were displayed for the first time at Mantua’s Archaeological Museum. The bones date back to the Neolithic era and were found face to face with their arms and legs entwined in 2007. There’s no sign that the man and woman, who were around 18 to 20 years old, died a violent death. Some believe they died holding each other on a freezing night, though it’s more likely that they were just buried in that position. Fans of the Lovers in Mantua are campaigning to give them a permanent spot in the museum, now that they’ve been moved from the grave they shared for 6,000 years.
(Image via Jezebel)
