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  1. Notes: 344 / 2 months ago  from bookmarklet
    Nadežda Petrović, Anđa pod jabukom (Anđa under the apple tree) 1907 - 1908 [ Nadežda Petrović is considered the most important Serbian female painter from the late 19th and early 20th century. She was also known as Serbia’s most famous Impressionist and Fauvist.] from Designed.rs

    Nadežda Petrović, Anđa pod jabukom (Anđa under the apple tree) 1907 - 1908

    [ Nadežda Petrović is considered the most important Serbian female painter from the late 19th and early 20th century. She was also known as Serbia’s most famous Impressionist and Fauvist.]

    from Designed.rs

     
  2. Notes: 71 / 2 months ago  from bookmarklet
    Santa Barbara Pupil Weaving Rug c.1915 autochrome by Helen Messinger Murdoch  from The Royal Photographic Society Collection, National Media Museum 

    Santa Barbara Pupil Weaving Rug c.1915

    autochrome by Helen Messinger Murdoch

     from The Royal Photographic Society Collection, National Media Museum 

     
  3. Notes: 115 / 2 months ago  from bookmarklet
    Miss Sallie Currier, Houlgate, Normandy, 1912 by  Helen Messinger Murdoch  Helen Messinger Murdoch (1862 – 1956) was a remarkable woman – one of the earliest colour photographers and one of the first female aviators. Murdoch joined  The Royal Photographic Society in 1911, becoming a fellow of the society the following year. A frequent visitor to Europe she showed her work at a number of venues, including the Wigmore Street Gallery and the Halcyon Women’s Club. In October 1913 she gave a talk illustrated with her lantern slides to a packed meeting of the Royal Photographic Society. Later that year, aged 51, Murdoch decided to embark on a round the world tour – the first woman photographer to undertake such a challenging journey. She travelled through France to Egypt and then on to Palestine, India, Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong, China, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, Honolulu, San Francisco, San Diego and overland to Boston, arriving home in 1915. more @ National Media Museum blog

    Miss Sallie Currier, Houlgate, Normandy, 1912 by  Helen Messinger Murdoch

     Helen Messinger Murdoch (1862 – 1956) was a remarkable woman – one of the earliest colour photographers and one of the first female aviators.

    Murdoch joined  The Royal Photographic Society in 1911, becoming a fellow of the society the following year. A frequent visitor to Europe she showed her work at a number of venues, including the Wigmore Street Gallery and the Halcyon Women’s Club. In October 1913 she gave a talk illustrated with her lantern slides to a packed meeting of the Royal Photographic Society.

    Later that year, aged 51, Murdoch decided to embark on a round the world tour – the first woman photographer to undertake such a challenging journey. She travelled through France to Egypt and then on to Palestine, India, Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong, China, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, Honolulu, San Francisco, San Diego and overland to Boston, arriving home in 1915.

    more @ National Media Museum blog

     
  4. Notes: 310 / 2 months ago  from bookmarklet
    Lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain prepares to lead the Suffrage Parade, on March 3, 1913.  from Library of Congress via The Atlantic

    Lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain prepares to lead the Suffrage Parade, on March 3, 1913. 

    from Library of Congress via The Atlantic

     
  5. Notes: 404 / 10 months ago  from bookmarklet
    June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.” National Photo Co.  from Shorpy [see also 1933 measuring @ so30s :]

    June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.” National Photo Co.  from Shorpy

    [see also 1933 measuring @ so30s :]

     
  6. Notes: 197 / 10 months ago  from bookmarklet
    In the summer of 1899, while alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described as “counting codes.” Having just detected cosmic radio signals for the first time, Tesla immediately believed them to be attempted communications from an intelligent life-form on either Venus or Mars, and later said of the experience, “The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”The next year, Tesla was asked by the Red Cross to predict man’s greatest possible achievement over the next century. The letter below was his reply.A much-needed transcript follows. “To the American Red Cross, New York City. The retrospect is glorious, the prospect is inspiring: Much might be said of both. But one idea dominates my mind. This — my best, my dearest — is for your noble cause. I have observed electrical actions, which have appeared inexplicable. Faint and uncertain though they were, they have given me a deep conviction and foreknowledge, that ere long all human beings on this globe, as one, will turn their eyes to the firmament above, with feelings of love and reverence, thrilled by the glad news: “Brethren! We have a message from another world, unknown and remote. It reads: one… two… three…” Christmas 1900 Nikola Tesla “ from Tesla Society &  Letters of Note 

    In the summer of 1899, while alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described as “counting codes.” Having just detected cosmic radio signals for the first time, Tesla immediately believed them to be attempted communications from an intelligent life-form on either Venus or Mars, and later said of the experience, “The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”

    The next year, Tesla was asked by the Red Cross to predict man’s greatest possible achievement over the next century. The letter below was his reply.

    A much-needed transcript follows.

    “To the American Red Cross, New York City.

    The retrospect is glorious, the prospect is inspiring: Much might be said of both. But one idea dominates my mind. This — my best, my dearest — is for your noble cause.

    I have observed electrical actions, which have appeared inexplicable. Faint and uncertain though they were, they have given me a deep conviction and foreknowledge, that ere long all human beings on this globe, as one, will turn their eyes to the firmament above, with feelings of love and reverence, thrilled by the glad news: “Brethren! We have a message from another world, unknown and remote. It reads: one… two… three…”

    Christmas 1900

    Nikola Tesla “

    from Tesla Society &  Letters of Note 

     
  7. Notes: 97 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Kodak Girl: From the Martha Cooper Collection a book by John P. Jacob thanks to La Lettre

    Kodak Girl: From the Martha Cooper Collection

    a book by John P. Jacob

    thanks to La Lettre

     
  8. Notes: 2026 / 1 year ago  from blackandwtf
    Standing on a mountain of already donated volumes, an amiable barker calls for still more books from passers-by outside the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.1910s fantastic find! thanks to blackandwtf & This Ain’t The Summer Of Love

    Standing on a mountain of already donated volumes, an amiable barker calls for still more books from passers-by outside the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.1910s

    fantastic find! thanks to blackandwtf & This Ain’t The Summer Of Love

     
  9. Notes: 665 / 1 year ago  from tuesday-johnson
    tuesday-johnson:ca. 1850’s, [portrait of a young girl on a rocking horse] via Live Auctioneers, Be-Hold

    tuesday-johnson:ca. 1850’s, [portrait of a young girl on a rocking horse]

    via Live Auctioneers, Be-Hold

     
  10. Notes: 417 / 1 year ago 
    Found this and thought of your great blog. We’re all big fans here at the museum. TEN WAYS TO COMMIT SUICIDE Wearing thin shoes and stockings and insufficient clothing in cold and rainy weather ; leading a lazy, excited theater-going, dancing life ; sleeping on feathers in a 7 by 9 room ; eating hot, stimulating food, too fast and a great deal too much of it at improper times ; beginning with tea and coffee in childhood and adding tobacco and spirits in due time ; marrying in haste and living in continual ferment thereafter ; following unhealthy occupations to make money ; taking bitters and confections and gormandizing between meals  ; giving way to fits of passion, or keeping in perpetual worry ; going to bed at midnight and getting up at noon, and eating when you catch it. To which may be added a recipe for killing children ; paregorics, cordials, candy and rich cake ; and when they are made sick thereby, mercury, tartar-emetic, castor oil and sulphur. found in the collection of the Dufferin County Museum & Archives. Source: Orangeville Sun, 1876. Awwww, this is so FANTASTIC, I think they’re right now more than ever;] thank You so much!!! love t.o.t.c. 

    Found this and thought of your great blog. We’re all big fans here at the museum.

    TEN WAYS TO COMMIT SUICIDE

    Wearing thin shoes and stockings and insufficient clothing in cold and rainy weather ; leading a lazy, excited theater-going, dancing life ; sleeping on feathers in a 7 by 9 room ; eating hot, stimulating food, too fast and a great deal too much of it at improper times ; beginning with tea and coffee in childhood and adding tobacco and spirits in due time ; marrying in haste and living in continual ferment thereafter ; following unhealthy occupations to make money ; taking bitters and confections and gormandizing between meals  ; giving way to fits of passion, or keeping in perpetual worry ; going to bed at midnight and getting up at noon, and eating when you catch it. To which may be added a recipe for killing children ; paregorics, cordials, candy and rich cake ; and when they are made sick thereby, mercury, tartar-emetic, castor oil and sulphur.

    found in the collection of the Dufferin County Museum & Archives. Source: Orangeville Sun, 1876.

    Awwww, this is so FANTASTIC, I think they’re right now more than ever;]

    thank You so much!!!

    love t.o.t.c. 

     
  11. Notes: 168 / 1 year ago  from tuesday-johnson
    tuesday-johnson:ca. 1865, [Woman’s spirit behind table with photograph] via the George Eastman House Collection on Flickr

    tuesday-johnson:ca. 1865, [Woman’s spirit behind table with photograph]

    via the George Eastman House Collection on Flickr

     
  12. Notes: 160 / 1 year ago  from tuesday-johnson
    tuesday-johnson:ca. 1860, “Mail Girl” via the Smithsonian Photographic Institute, Photographic History Collection

    tuesday-johnson:ca. 1860, “Mail Girl”

    via the Smithsonian Photographic Institute, Photographic History Collection

     
  13. Notes: 116 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Trickery: The Dreadnought Hoaxers, including Virginia Woolf (far left) and Horace de Vere Cole (far right)  February 7, 1910 from Mail Online

    Trickery: The Dreadnought Hoaxers, including Virginia Woolf (far left) and Horace de Vere Cole (far right)  February 7, 1910

    from Mail Online

     
  14. Notes: 261 / 1 year ago  from theloudestvoice
    theloudestvoice: Men drying strips of film in a lab, c. early 1900s Scanned from Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

    theloudestvoice:

    Men drying strips of film in a lab, c. early 1900s

    Scanned from Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

     
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