One of the coolest things that’s happened to me lately is being mistaken for the lady in this photo.
Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg (Born Jane Nettie Harmon) (24 March 1907 - 11 April 1993) was an American amateur aviator. She was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence.
Why do so many people have so many great faces? Look at this great face! What an awesome badass. \o/
A boy visiting the Hull House Health Clinic, 1910, Lewis Hine, Chicago.
Excuse me while I keysmash about the fact that I know so little about this story and yet need to know more.
Double Room, c.1938, Merchandise Mart, Chicago.
Photo by Hedrich-Blessing
Part of me wonders how Innogen would look if I’d known to go for dieselpunk instead of steampunk. Wow.
That’s my girl. Rigantona poses for Mucha?
Read the Rigantona chapter of Innogen and the Hungry Half!
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Theodore Roosevelt, riding a moose, 1900.
In elementary school, I used to get out this picture book with rhymes about all the presidents. It stopped at Clinton, so, yay the 90s? (I saw a copy at a vintage store about a year ago with W. in it. I failed to buy the copy; I’m waiting for the Obama edition, I guess.) But I remember TR’s couplet to this day: Teddy Roosevelt, Twenty-Six / Spoke softly and carried a big stick.
I guess riding a moose is a little harder to work into a rhyme, but that’s no excuse for leaving it out of a formative kid’s book. Luckily that’s why we have comics.
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This… this whole Tumblr is how I want to live my life. With a hearty side of ultra pin-up girl/flapper when the mood (and the time) strikes.
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Tilda Swinton by Fabio Lovino, 1999 by Jessie Quast on Flickr.
Apparently there are people in the world who look like medieval illuminations or statuary.
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Band Shell, Grant Park, c.1936, Chicago. Fred Korth
Okay, now I’m sorry that I never got to see this. All the more reason to see the Hollywood Bowl?
