Omertà: Reaping Whirlwinds

A Reference and Inspiration Collection Blog for the Novel Project: " Omertà: Reaping Whirlwinds"

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The 1929 Kirsch book : a stylebook of window and door draping treatments.

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Leonard Potts in The Tatler, January 30, 1929 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.

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The Sketch, England, October 28, 1931

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How to tape up your hands before a fight

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Useful reference?

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Let’s go beat someone up! But no seriously, does this prevent pain or something ? What do these bandages actually serve ? 

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It keeps your bones aligned to prevent injury, compresses soft tissue to make the fist more rigid, and pads the knuckles. Skull bones are sturdier than hand bones, and even if you know what you’re doing there’s a high risk of damaging your metacarpals if you punch someone barehanded. It’s why they recommend if you find yourself in a fight unprepared to bunt their nose with the butt of your palm, because if the other person tucks their head and you end up hitting their forehead instead it’ll do a lot less damage to your palm than your knuckles.

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Art Deco Cocktail Bar & Restaurant, 1932

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Looking SW at Michigan Ave and Congress, 1897, Chicago

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Looking northwest from the 11th St. bridge, Grant Park, 1956, Chicago.

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Grant Park in Chicago

The city officially designated the land as a park on April 29, 1844, naming it Lake Park. When the Illinois Central Railroad was built into Chicago in 1852, it

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The Graphic, England, July 20, 1929

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NW corner of Clark and Balmoral, Andersonville, 1933, Chicago

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Looking east on Polk from Wells, 1900, Chicago

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Late 1920′s to early 30′s pair of green and pink lounging/beach pajamas. From Kerry Taylor Auctions.

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Kittyinva: 1920′s Boue Soeurs little girl’s embroidered net dress. Cream tulle having a series of tiny tucks to the collar, yoke and cap sleeves, floral embroidery, the lower skirt having embroidered swags with bows above an insert of fine cotton lawn, the hem edged in filet lace, over a pink silk underdress. From Whitaker Auctions.

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Looking SE on Milwaukee from Western, 1908, Chicago. 

All of these buildings are now gone, save the building with the Cremo Cigars sign which still stands. It’s the one to the right of the taller building.

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A rare glimpse of the interior atrium of the Masonic Temple Building, NE corner State and Randolph, 1939, Chicago.

Built in 1892, the Masonic Temple Building was the world’s tallest at 302 feet. It would be demolished a mere 47 years later in 1939. The reason? Aside from depression-era financial woes and being serviceably obsolete, the City engineers decided that it would be too ambitious to replace the building’s floating foundation with caissons as subway construction began, so it came down. 

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