#19thc

[drumlincountry]

Just want to let u know (in your very well held bafflement of how long the US "was" a slave state) that the official abolition of slavery in the United States wasn't until 1863 (!!!). This wasn't fully implemented across the union until june of 1865 and wasn't codified into our constitution until the very very end of 1865 (December 6). Even then it contained loopholes still present today through allowing slavery as a punishment for a crime. The United States is still a slave state. All they have to do is prove you're a criminal, and due process here is a fucking joke.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1210564359/slavery-prison-forced-labor-movement

Haha fun fact I just looked up the last survivor of chattel slavery in the USA was a woman called Elizabeth Cash Green who died in 1975.

You know. The year Jaws came out.

[daguerreotyping]

Fashion plate featuring an extravagantly languorous young dandy entertaining a friend, Le Bon Ton, 1836

[thebaffledcaptain]

Age of Sail fans—did you know the USS Constitution offers free panoramic virtual tours on their website? It's a great resource for modelers, writers, artists, or simply those who regularly feel the urge to wander an early 19th century frigate—there's almost nothing off limits, so if you want to snoop around in the Captain's quarters, need a solid visual reference of a wardroom, or see what it's like to climb down into the magazine, they've got you covered. All they ask is that you fill out a 10 second Google form to gauge the educational demographic of the users, and the rest of it is free to explore.

They also have comprehensive deck plans and visual resources for modelers, also for free, which are equally valuable for the writer or artist and do not deserve to go unmentioned.

[trickstersmakethisworld]

The Halwyll Palace in Stockholm was the winter residence of the richest family in Sweden during the late 1800s, and as such the interior design is naturally quite minimal and modest.

[fleshaesthetic]

a feeling 

[caorthainn]

“My morning-dream was often hummed away

By the bees in it”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

[mangodebango]

“O Retrato de Dorian Gray" (The Picture of Dorian Gray - Portuguese Edition) by Oscar Wilde, Brazil, original edition 1890.

[laurelrusswurm]

THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE

 “Old Vic”, Victoria College, University of Toronto This is not exactly what this gorgeous bit of building actually looks like when the ivy isn’t obscuring the details... I’ve taken the liberty of touching the image up, as well as digitally removing a jumble of the ugly wires that had been een stuck on the bricks.