Snow Day in the Archives

Bridget | 27 | librarian-in-training, mess of a historian, anxious Edwardian | Ukrainian diaspora in Mohkínstsis | just wants you to have a good time

[edwardiansuggestions]

adore the look of the charming girls with their hair cut short, and put your own hair in a low bun, as it is the closest your lord-father will allow

[boykeats]

[” – Men’s letters are proverbially uninteresting and uncommunicative – ”]

Charlotte Brontë, in a letter to Ellen Nussey, dated 7 November 1854

[yesterdaysprint]

The Frankfort Index, Kansas, April 26, 1930

[magicconchshell-deactivated2018]

imagine if you went to go see a horror movie but it was just a slide show of your middle school selfies for an hour

[snowdayinthearchives]

A playback of every msn message you ever sent in junior high that mentioned your crush

[oupacademic]

Suzannah Lipscomb, the author of The Voices of Nîmes, explains why primary sources from women are so important. 

Gifs created by Mara Sandroff for Oxford University Press

[lchaimfuckass]

this club has everything! sea shanties, a lighthouse, homoeroticism, madness from the sea, a giant squid

[classiclesbians]

Lesbian Couple of the Day: Mary and Ruth embracing, 1910.

[showerthoughtspost]

Tall people are just vertically thicc.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Saint Paul Globe, Minnesota, July 31, 1887

[darklingpearl]

Karl Brjullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (detail), 1830-1833

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

everyone wonders why trees are so big, but I know.

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

OK, I can tell you, but the world will never be the same

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

their bigness comes chiefly from their height and their girth, which are both enormous. if you look at small things you will tend to find that they are very low in height, width, etc. (you get the picture). trees, however, have a very tall height and wide girth, which makes them extremely large

[anthropologyofwater-deactivated]

[serenatonin]

Me looking for articles to cite in my paper that I totally procrastinated on

[downwithneocolonialism]

[paradoxius]

This is supposed to be a joke, but this was an actual controversy when the queen was introduced into chess:

15th century gamergate: ‘tis about moral unrighteousness in the folios printed about games on Master Gutenberg’s new movable type press.

[wike-wabbits]

Perfume bottle consisting of eight enameled glass bottles as orange segments, set in painted ceramic holder. (ca. 1925)

[deceptive-owls]

Why did 1925 people get 1000% cooler product packaging than we do

[sexycraisinthanos]

when crack is allowed in literally everything people get creative

[yesterdaysprint]

The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, August 9, 1918

[arotaro]

Bad joke time

It can be frustrating when people confuse “aromantic” with “aromatic”, but hey, you know what they say: Aros, by any other name, would smell as sweet.

[bandvn-deactivated20190827]

First of all, how dare you

[yesterdaysprint]

Chicago Tribune, Illinois, June 25, 1916