Magpie & Whale

steamscrapbook:

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/

calumet412:

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.

oneyardatatime:

jastaace:

thesouschef:

lostsplendor:

Prussian Garde Military Bandsmen c. 1895-1897 Cabinet Card (by sunnybrook100)

dude in the front

“Ladies.”

I have never seen a group who thought they were so cool. The original band nerds?

Is that Graham Chapman in the middle there? …I feel that would explain a lot.

There’s no way I can improve on any of this perfect commentary.

notyourplayground:

artistswanted:

Today’s Featured Art Takes Times Square Entrant - Alicia Moneva! Photography from Madrid http://bit.ly/JIKLQy

Reblogging because this keeps reminding me of Sleep No More.

Weeping because I love this and also because I need to see Sleep No More so. badly.

calumet412:

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!

(via falsestuff)

interwar:

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.

(via oneyardatatime)

calumet412:

Palmolive Building projecting it’s beacon on Lake Michigan, resulting in some sort of explosion in the water (obviously not caused by the light)c. 1939, Chicago.

Hedrich-Blessing.

There must be a sound effect for that. Zlrp zlrp?

Just ran across a picture of Walt Whitman elsewhere. I like his expression. He’s someone with a very interesting face.

(Source: dyingofcute)