Passionately Curious

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[historium]

Solar Eclipse over a snowy Central Park in New York City (1925)

[nemfrog]

Hokusai rabbits.

Denshin kaishu ippitsu gafu : zen. 1823.

Gallica

[nevver]

In the night garden, Mary Mattingly

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

A selection of "ornaments" marketed to printers by American Type Founders Co. in Inland Printer v.24 (1899:Oct.-1900:Mar.). From the text: "The ornaments here shown were collected by Will Bradley, the artist, many of them being from medieval sources, and designed by him with especial reference to the requirements of modern typography." Full text here.

[gacougnol]

Alan Frost

The ‘Sea of Steps’ staircase leading to The Chapter House

[zombilenium]

@wyattxplores

[gacougnol]

Céline Laguarde (1873-1961)

Portrait d'homme et paysage du pays basque, entre 1901 et 1914

[blood-and-breath]

[scrapironflotilla]

An improvised trench catapult used by the British in 1914. Also firing/flinging an improvised grenade known as a 'jam tin bomb'.

London Illustrated News, 1914.

[kathyakey]

The man just sleeping through it all in the illustration -- wow. Love it.

[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

[maybeallieart]

An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Jean Cocteau holding 'Les trois-yeux' ('The Three-Eyes'), 1958.

[scrapironflotilla]

Richard Tennant Cooper - The Working Party 1917, 1918.

[mapsontheweb]

Density of foreign-born population of the US 1890

[scrapironflotilla]

Plan of dummy tree observation post.

[scrapironflotilla]

Snipers Heads being manufactured in papier-mâché for use in locating enemy snipers.

[omgthatdress]

Evening Dress

1805-1810

The Metropolitan Museum of Art