starfishpaws

my-ear-trumpet:

Atomic Antiques | Barely Able To Write

turnofthecentury:

Lucien Vogel’s Le Style Parisien | Recto|Verso

The “Paris Festival” in New York  [Poiret]

my-ear-trumpet:

herzundseele:

Summary/Description: World War I poster: mother and children gaze at framed portrait of husband/father in uniform draped in US flags above mantle; portraits of Presidents Washington, Wilson, and Lincoln also on mantle and wall

circa 1918

Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection, ca. 1850-1967

Bridge score cards from the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Thank you to AThousandWinds

speaklisten:

cubiclerefugee:

My favorite flower is slighted in love. 

nattyboo:

(via historiful)

yeoldenews:

Another awesome Victorian burn.

I think the average Victorian could give us a run for our money when it comes to snarkiness.

(source: The Atchison Globe, January 3, 1882.)

yeoldenews:

Prisoner #23: William Dodds

Charge: Obtaining a pony under false pretenses.

Verdict: Case Dismissed. Pony presumably kept.

Mr. Dodds, on behalf of little girls in princess costumes everywhere, I salute you!

(source: Assizes and General Gaol Delivery, The Castle of Newcastle upon Tyne, July 27, 1854.)

Sometime in 1860, a Pony Express rider, whose name is long lost to history, vanished while crossing the wild lands of Nevada. Two years later, his mail pouch was found. Today, only a few artifacts remain from that pouch, including the envelope above. This envelope is only one of two known pieces of “interrupted mail” mail to exist from the Pony Express.

The rare 1860 envelope attests that hard riding was not the most daunting aspect of the job. Routes passed through deserted, often forbidding, territory. A note scrawled on the front of the artifact alludes to its tragic backstory: “Recovered from a [sic] mail stolen by the Indians in 1860.” The nameless victim is thought to have been the only Pony Express rider killed, though a few station agents died when Indians attacked their outposts.

~via Neatorama

As far back as the 9th Century, the beautifully named ‘Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette’ insisted that local officials use the following letter template (dated 856) when sending apologies to offended dinner hosts.

via Letters of Note