My Newfangled Miscellany of Vintage Diversions

An Unabashedly Rose-Tinted and Whimsical Look at Ages Past, Particularly the Victorian and Edwardian Eras, and the Belle Époque

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Pressed Grapes Loving Couple

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Pratts Healing Ointment (c1880)

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Folies Bergere / La Loie Fuller, 1893. Jules Chéret. Original lithograph.

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The gateway of the Castel Béranger from 1898 in Paris by Hector Guimard (1867-1942). It was the first residence in the French capital built in Art Nouveau style.

📸 Groume

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The eye. Detail from a poster by Franz Struck. 1911.

Wikipedia Commons

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It wouldn’t be a holiday without at least one random ass frog card.

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The Cause of Ireland. 1881 color lithograph by Thomas B. Noonan & Co., depicting Charles Stewart Parnell, advocate for Irish nationalism and then-leader of the Home Rule League, surrounded by smaller portraits of 18 men active in Irish politics. Now in the Library of Congress.

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Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)

La Contessa Gabrielle de Rasty su un divano

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Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853–1919)

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Aleksey Savrasov - "Winter Landscape" (c.1871)

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Still Life with Oranges (1863)

— by Rafael Romero Barros

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Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Hermann von Kaulbach

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(source: The Kentucky Advocate, December 24, 1902.)

Narrator voice: Charles was not, in fact, a good boy forever.

The 15 minute gun fight broke out between Charles and at least two other men following an argument at a hotel coffee shop in Louisville where Charles, a bookie, was staying for the Kentucky Derby. It was soon joined by responding police officers.

Charles' photo and fingerprints were sent out to surrounding law enforcement and it was discovered Charles was wanted for a bank robbery in Detroit and a hotel hold-up in Cleveland where one person was killed.

Charles died from his wounds several days later, but refused to identify the other men involved in the argument, who fled in the aftermath - though several articles mention they were thought to be "Chicago men", suggesting mob affiliation.

(source: The Akron Beacon, May 22, 1931.)

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