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Rapping Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter
The year was 1989. Inexplicably, Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, federal judge Renee Cardwell Hughes, and pals attended Leadership Inc.’s 30 anniversary.
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Beautiful Old Playing Cards
Pick a card, any card. Although, I’d like to pick all these cards. Antique playing cards are charming to look at, aren’t they? If you’d like to know more about the history of playing cards, or would...
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Alexander Graham Bell's Delightfully Weird Sketchbooks
On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. Bell recorded those early telephone experiments in his lab notebooks from the time, as he did with countless other...
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18 Insane Mugshots From The Twenties
These mugshots were found and restored to a hauntingly high quality. All these mugshots are from Australian criminals and offenders, circa 1920. (Via) Walter Smith 2. De Gracy And Dalton 3. T. Bede 4....
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Short Visual History Of Tattoo Tools
As long as people have wanted to piss off their parents be part of a social group, there have been tattoos. Part of the human condition for over 5,000 years, tattoo tools have come in variety of...
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Things A Woman Can Do
From the November 6, 1903 edition of the The Bourbon News newspaper from Paris, Kentucky.
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Millerism And The Great Disappointment
Harold Camping isn’t the first self-proclaimed prophet to calculate a date for the rapture. In 1833, William Miller predicted the rapture would occur around 1843. The Millerite movement gradually...
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Brooklyn, Summer, 1974
From the National Archives, here’s a collection of vintage photos taken by Danny Lyons during the summer of 1974. View Entire List › Via buzzbrewery.com
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When I Grow Up
W. W. Denslow is best known for illustrating L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but he was a talented artist responsible for a number of books and cartoons. In 1909, he wrote and illustrated...
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Football: A Game For Gentlemen
In 1910 the rules for football were revised with the hope that eliminating violent plays would make the game more dignified. Enter Edward H. Coy, 1909 Captain of the Yale football team. Coy was keen...
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How to Get a Boyfriend (1955)
It’s Time You Knew was a popular sex education and dating manual written by Gladys Denny Shultz in 1955. Like most publications of its ilk, it weighed in on the women and sandwiches issue, offering...
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What It Was Like Working As A Sign Writer At The London Zoo In The 1930s
Here are some awesome pictures of Flickr user Pauline Locke’s grandfather working at the London Zoo in the 1930s. I think the little girl is his daughter. Can you imagine?! View Entire List ›
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Holland, 1945
The Dutch people had a tumultuous 1945 as they lived through the gruesome final moments of the last great war only to find themselves fully liberated mere months later. Here are 45 photographs of...
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The Art Of Lucy Fitch Perkins
Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865-1937) was a prolific illustrator of early 20th century children’s books. She is best known for her Twins series, but some of her most beautiful illustrations appeared in...
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23 Unbelievable Facts You Didn't Know About Humanity
Humans have done quite a few strange things over the years, but many not quite as unexpected as these. Find out why Julius Caesar wore a wreath on his head, what great gift Queen Victoria received on...
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Amazing Photos From The New York Photo League: 1936-1951
An exhibit about the group of photographers who set out to document what life in New York was actually like in the first half of the 20th century opens this Saturday at The Jewish Museum in New York....
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