History Traveller

Heritage tourism, historical reenactment, living history & assorted stops between.

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[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

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[disneyprint]

Hell’s Bells

1929 theatrical release poster

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[jstor]

Is it just us, or does everyone like anthropomorphic fruit? Yeah, it's probably just us. Anyway, here are some selections from the UC Davis Lug and Can Label Collection on JSTOR. There are more than 3,000 of these things from 1890 to 1970, and the collection is open to all!

[notentirely]

no idea if this is true, but it feels true

[pleasedontsqueezetheshhh]

I heard an interview, can’t remember the psychologist, but he was explaining this idea and encouraging people to stop and take a deep breath and literally drink in small moments like you’re a dryass plant when something is ever satisfactory, positive, mildly successful, randomly joyful so your brain can code and integrate that experience because our natural lizard brain will quickly tape over it with mostly unnecessary negative survival shit. Sounds dumb and dorky but sometimes I remember this when I’m feeling good about a moment because our cave brains are still catching up with modern life without sabertooths. I like that it’s not just a pollyanna gosh just be more positive thing but more of a legit brain wiring phenomenon can be gradually hacked through small behavioral changes.

[elidyce]

Another super important one: Take the time to tell yourself, when something you did or bought or decided works out “That was a good decision and I’m glad I made it! Go me!” 

Seriously, it can have a huge impact. suddenly you go from remembering nothing but bad decisions to adding in a series of Excellent Choices You Feel Good About, and it makes things so much better. 

[silentwalrus1]

#we’re all running happiness software on survival hardware and we gotta do our own firmware updates   from @galwednesday 

[aprillikesthings]

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” —Kurt Vonnegut

[publicdomainreview]

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn “infographics” he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900 #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

[an-drom-eda]

it makes me feel something raw and aching when i see the monuments left behind by ancient cultures, the pillars and the carvings and the steps rising to the sky and the temples and the pictograms, like for thousands and thousands of years humans have stood in awe of the universe and poured their energy into building places to worship the gods they imagined made all of this, the way their wonder and their belief have lasted well beyond even their culture's lifetimes

for us to still see these places and feel the memory of their hands and their heartbeats carved into the stone, for us to know, thousands of years later, that they were there and they were amazed at what they saw

idk, in this sanitized world saturated with advertisements and cold steel and corporations squeezing the life out of the planet for another quick buck, it's gut-wrenching to look at the stones of gobekli tepi and feel shadows of the awe we once beheld the world with

[thevaultofretroscifi]

[delicious-dream-before-the-storm]

When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen …

[francesca-feasts]

@hieronymus-bush … although I’m not sure what you’ll think of it 😆

[hieronymus-bush]

Holy hell. He has amazing technique AND he didn’t just transcribe the piece to piano, he essentially composed classical music (and honestly some neo-classical, lol) based on the melody. Plus, he kind of looks like Freddie.

[muchymozzarella]

People in the 1800s would've gone apeshit over this in the concert halls

[emeraldbirdcollector]

Reblogging to watch later...

[historytravellers]

Okay, I’m good with this.

[usnatarchives]

Potato Pete propaganda, NARA IDs 44266925 and 44266927.

Happy #National POTATO Day! By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

"POTATO PETE" GOES TO WAR! Years before #MrPotatoHead, Potato Pete helped the Allies fight the Nazis! Not sure which gov't communicator associated potatoes with military strength, but this series of wartime posters - including Airborne spuds -- promoted potatoes as "fighting food" at a time of food scarcity.

NARA ID 44266921.

NARA ID 44266923.

Before “Freedom Fries” -“POTATRIOTS”! Potatoes helped in World War I, as well! U.S. citizens were encouraged to eat more potatoes while wheat was being sent to the soldiers overseas.

Iowa potatoes are "the Newest Fighting Corps." NARA ID 283501.

Hungry for more food history? Check out our online exhibit, What’s Cooking Uncle Sam, to learn: 

What’s “Exploding ketchup”?

Why were some gov’t volunteers called the “Poison Squad”?

How can donuts improve morale?

What was Queen Elizabeth’s recipe for scones?

Is coffee truly “wholesome and nourishing”?

More online: Potatriots: The original Freedom Fries, Pieces of History Potatoes in Iowa Become "The Newest Fighting Corps" on the Domestic Front, Docs Teach National French Fry Day, NARA Tumblr

[dandyads]

U.S. Food Administration WWI Poster, 1918

[irisharchaeology]

Miaow………. medieval cats, Drumacoo church, Co Galway

[browsethestacks]

"Can I Keep Him?" (1993)

Art by Mike Ploog

[weirdlandtv]

Betty Boop (and Koko the Clown) promotional image from the 1930s. (There’s no information on it unfortunately. It was published in the 1990 comic, BETTY BOOP’S BIG BREAK.)

[attaining-fic]

I like that Number One at first tries to approach beaming a piece of a planet’s mantle onto the ship or trying to touch the warp core the same way one would approach a toddler trying to eat crayons.

[sharonz-arty-corner03]

FOR REAL her whole energy was “honey no put that down it’s bad for your tummy”

[curlytrek1701]

"Show me what you have!"

"A destabilized warp core!"

"NO!!!!!"