Retro Spectator

Somewhere in the 20th century... that's where I live. I will make my home a time capsule with the antiques I accumulate. By some cosmic mistake I was born a hundred years late. I am a nostalgia junkie. An anachronism.

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Frozen firetrucks after a five alarm fire in zero degree weather in Boston. c.1920.

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The Sound of Siam • Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam from Thailand 1964 -197

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…Agence eureka…

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Paul Poiret, 1911

Photographer: Edward Steichen

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

T.S. Eliot (via lazyyogi)

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at M. E. Swings Coffee Roaster - Del Ray

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All my human relationships have to do with a mask of me and I must perpetually be the victim of living a completely hidden life. I have always been exposed to the cruelest coincidences - or, rather, it is I who have always turned all coincidence into cruelty.

Friedrich Nietzsche (via silencemadenietzschecry)

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Cary Grant posing for a fan, c. 1950s.

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Fun Choices Lettering - David Sierra

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ANTI-WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE POST CARDS

"Those opposed to women’s suffrage also used postcards to get their message out to the public. The Palczewski Postcard Archive at the University of Northern Iowa, sent to us by Katrin, has a number of great examples that illustrate the frames used to present women’s full political participation as threatening.”

“For instance, a 12-card series produced by Dunston-Weiler Lithographic Company presented suffrage as upending the gender order by masculinizing women and feminizing men. Suffragists, the postcards tell us, cause women to abandon their household duties and become aggressive and unladylike:

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Illustration by Curtiss Sprague, 1931 from Skags, the Milk Horse

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FREAKS promo pin. Unauthenticated.

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Love these old tanker trucks

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An die Musik - Alexandra Rubner