June 3, 2012
via Shorpy Spring 1942. “New Bedford, Massachusetts. Portuguese Girl Scouts.”

via Shorpy

Spring 1942. “New Bedford, Massachusetts. Portuguese Girl Scouts.”

1:27pm
Filed under: gyneocracy domestic arts 
June 3, 2012
ingridrichter: Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson.

ingridrichter:

Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson.

12:39pm
(Notes: 5)
  
Filed under: gyneocracy 
June 2, 2012
via Anonymous Works 1903 Suffragette defaced penny. Collection of the British Museum.

via Anonymous Works

1903 Suffragette defaced penny. Collection of the British Museum.

4:01pm
(Notes: 1)
  
Filed under: gyneocracy votes for women 
June 2, 2012
thekittencovers: Fleetwood Cat - Groomers

thekittencovers:

Fleetwood Cat - Groomers

3:13pm
(Notes: 1,222)
  
June 2, 2012
ingridrichter: Towanda.  The Cynic’s Calendar of Revised Wisdom by Oliver Herford, 1904.

ingridrichter:

Towanda.  The Cynic’s Calendar of Revised Wisdom by Oliver Herford, 1904.

2:26pm
(Notes: 22)
  
June 2, 2012
oldbookillustrations: … Good manners, elegance, and distinction, require that one must be at least a bit of a sportsman or a sportswoman. Paul Avril, from Le miroir du monde (Reflection of the world), by Octave Uzanne, Paris, 1888. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

… Good manners, elegance, and distinction, require that one must be at least a bit of a sportsman or a sportswoman.

Paul Avril, from Le miroir du monde (Reflection of the world), by Octave Uzanne, Paris, 1888.

(Source: archive.org)

1:25pm
(Notes: 90)
  
Filed under: paul avril old time beach party gyneocracy 
June 2, 2012
theartofgooglebooks: Text visible through the page (the subject of the girl’s gaze). Also, an amazing plate: “The mother stated that when three months pregnant with the child she was much terrified by a monkey attached to a street organ, which jumped on her back as she was passing by.” From p.82 of The Human Hair: Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment by Hermann Beigel (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 23, 2007.

theartofgooglebooks:

Text visible through the page (the subject of the girl’s gaze).

Also, an amazing plate: “The mother stated that when three months pregnant with the child she was much terrified by a monkey attached to a street organ, which jumped on her back as she was passing by.”

From p.82 of The Human Hair: Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment by Hermann Beigel (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 23, 2007.

12:36pm
(Notes: 22)
  
Filed under: gyneocracy hirsutism 
June 1, 2012

(Source: myjetpack)

4:06pm
(Notes: 432)
  
Filed under: tom gauld brontë realness 
June 1, 2012
oldbookillustrations: Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) From Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel ( Atlas, or Volume of plates to Scientific and popular natural history of birds), by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, Vienna, 1864. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)

From Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel ( Atlas, or Volume of plates to Scientific and popular natural history of birds), by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, Vienna, 1864.

(Source: archive.org)

3:21pm
(Notes: 184)
  
June 1, 2012
stilllifequickheart: Leonhard Fuchs Poppies 16th century

stilllifequickheart:

Leonhard Fuchs

Poppies

16th century

(via biomedicalephemera)

2:21pm
(Notes: 139)
  
Filed under: flora 
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