Fame & Fortune

Os cacahuetes do mono moderno.

[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.

[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

[instamatik]

[instamatik]

[nobrashfestivity]

Tattoos for Criminals, Edo period

[jointhesoftrevolution-blog]

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

[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

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

[fameandfortune]

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (Radio 2 Piano Room)