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Goodnight all

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🎶 He's just a Poe boy 🎶 🎶 From a Poe family 🎶

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The Author, on His Sixtieth Birthday, Performing Feats of Agility Fletcherism, What It Is; or, How I Became Young at Sixty 1913 California Digital Library

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kinda relatable tbh

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This meme has been simmering in my brain since I first posted this cartoon

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Villagers with torches have the chance to do the funniest thing

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Goodnight. The Pond, Bill Crisafi. #FrogForFriday

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1.5 seconds to *BAP* Witch's Cat A Rehearsall both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile Public Domain Review 1579

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Rural Free Delivery Star route from Crescent City, CA, to Brookings, OR Library of Congress Date unknown

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From Finland: Vintage Kotilieden Catalogue pages from 1937.

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Excellent thread and I wish all the stories like this would get out there about the work federal employees were doing and the tremendous loss it is to just let them go for no good reason at all. Loss for them (obviously), loss to the country and in many cases the greater good.

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St. Dennistoun Mortuary” Coin-Operated Automaton by John Dennison (circa 1900) see it in action here www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsqF...

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Shout out to the people wondering what the opposite of in is

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Bug says don't get a bee in your bonnet Eat the bee instead

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Circa. 1927 fashions. L to R: Hattie E. Livas, Lydia Moore Merrick, Susie V. Gillie Norfleet, Martha Merrick Donnell, & Bessie Alberta Johnson Whitted, the "NC Mutual Quintet" Elegant Black women who were important community leaders in Durham, North Carolina in the 1920s. 1/2 #BlackHistory

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I've had this stupid allergic reaction going on on my face for months now so I'm thinking we need to bring back veils, anybody with me

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New information about my identity, courtesy of autocorrect

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Bug says don't get a bee in your bonnet Eat the bee instead

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If you offer me coffee and give me hot stale bread water we are no longer friends Things Mother Used To Make: a collection of old time recipes, some nearly one hundred years old and never published before Lydia Maria Gurney 1922

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Villagers with torches have the chance to do the funniest thing

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Come play in my dragon fort

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Also props for rhyming "Budapest" with "ruder pest"

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Watching My Fair Lady for the hundredth time and I'll never not be entranced by the costumes, especially in the race scene

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Suit of Amour - George Quintana, 1938

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French trade card. 1880s.

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the geese probably deserve this imo 1899

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"They have a cheek. I've never been asked." Artists' Suffrage League, London, England, 1908 Library of Congress

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Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence "Mrs. Pauline Adams of Norfolk, Virginia, was arrested when picketing the White House on Sept. 4, 1917, and sentenced to sixty days in Occoquan Workhouse" Library of Congress Records of the National Woman's Party

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Just leaving this here for future reference archive.org/details/eggl...

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British Library 1880

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Down the hatch in Pilottown, LA, 1938 FSA photo by Russell Lee

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A little Valentine’s lore…Those hoping for a new love tomorrow can find out their identity by taking a hard boiled egg, scoop out the yolk, put salt into the now ‘yolk void’ and eat the salty egg (though obviously, don’t…) before bed tonight. 💘 🖼️ Tjitske Geertruida Maria van Hettinga Tromp, 1929.

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Junior "Buckeye" lawnmower trading card Boston Public Library 1870-1900 (approx)

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A weird & nerdy thing I like to do is look up locations in old timey photos and see how they match up, so here is "View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia" from 1840 and also now. Robert Cornelius Library of Congress 1840

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When you overdo the accessories. 🖼️ Miniature of Barbara Radziwiłł, Lucas Cranach the Younger, c.1553.

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Just plop a big ol head o' cauliflower on the table and call it a day I guess Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book 1905

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Look at these auroral swirls last night in Fairbanks, Alaska. love these abstract shapes and lines... so beautiful!

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