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calumet412: 1874 Chicago White Stockings (Cubs) Baseball Club

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:57:48 -0500

calumet412:

1874 Chicago White Stockings (Cubs) Baseball Club

vintagesportspictures: Deacon Mcguire (1800’s)

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:10:37 -0500

vintagesportspictures:

Deacon Mcguire (1800’s)

John Wilkes Booth

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:58:17 -0500

John Wilkes Booth

fuckyeahhistorycrushes: Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:01:23 -0500

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Photographer Alfred Stieglitz self-portrait, c. 1894, age 30. Holy shitsnakes, I was born in the wrong era. I’d travel time for Stieglitz in a heartbeat.

-Bee

fancycwabs: mattdoucette: johnnyninety-nine: AMAZING! Mark...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:36:04 -0500

fancycwabs:

mattdoucette:

johnnyninety-nine:

AMAZING! Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla’s laboratory in 1894.

I love this photo so much. I wonder what they talked about.

I hope they got drunk and used sparks to set things on fire.

Oh, it’s WAY better than that. An experience with one of Tesla’s inventions made Twain NEARLY SHIT HIS PANTS. From a Tesla biography:

This contraption, he explained, “consists of a platform supported on elastic cushions that are ade to oscillate by means of compressed air. One day, I stepped on the platform and the vibrations imparted were transmitted to my body….Evidently, these isochronous rapid oscillations stimulated powerfully the peristaltic movements which propel the food-stuffs through the alimentary channels.”
“You mean, it’ll make me regular?” Twain inquired.

“Precisely, and without the use of elixirs, specific remedies or internal applications whatever.”

Without further ado, Twain stepped aboard as Tesla tried to stop his assistants from chuckling. As Twain had been so enthusiastic, Tesla neglected to inform him that peristaltic action is induced almost immediately.

“Suddenly, Twain felt an unspeakable and pressing necessity which had to be promptly satisfied,” Tesla told the Johnsons the next day to their tearful glee, for he had to jump off the platform and find his way swiftly to the lavatory.

“I think I’ll start with the electrotheraphy machines,” Twain said upon his return. ”Wouldn’t want those widows to get too healthy all at one shot.”

What an incredible collaboration of ~~mustaches~~ minds.

nypl: Here’s nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings (nee...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:41:21 -0500

nypl:

Here’s nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings (nee Henry Wheeler Shaw), a very popular writer and lecturer, born in Massachusetts in 1818. His works shows that purposeful misspellings and poor grammar were funny to Americans 150 years ago, too. To wit, “‘Give me liberty, or giv me deth’—but ov the 2 I prefer the liberty.” (lolz!)

According to David B. Kesterson, Billings gave popular lectures that were “usually on one of three topics—’Buty and the Beasts,’ ’What i Kno About Hotels,’ and the frequently given ’Milk.’”

Luving this fella, evun be4 we saw hiz grate mustach. Happy Mustache Monday!

pastperfect-online: Happy Monday, once again! This week, we...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:39:36 -0500

pastperfect-online:

Happy Monday, once again! This week, we bring you the handsome handle-bar mustache of Charles Curry Chase while he was a student at Cornell University from 1879-1883. This cabinet card can be found in the collection of the Oshkosh Public Museum.

alpha-lima-lima-papa: studio greyhound by Libby Hall Dog Photo...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:17:10 -0400

alpha-lima-lima-papa:

studio greyhound by Libby Hall Dog Photo on Flickr.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, of the...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:29:42 -0400

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, of the all-black 54th Infantry Regiment for the Union Army during the American Civil War.

weirdvintage: c. 1897

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:22:31 -0400

weirdvintage:

c. 1897

James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:50:06 -0400

James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok

H. G. Wells

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:43:36 -0400

H. G. Wells

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:40:55 -0400

Friedrich Nietzsche

vegkat: calumet412: Alexander Graham Bell making the first...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:52:26 -0400

vegkat:

calumet412:

Alexander Graham Bell making the first long distance phone call from New York to Chicago, 1892.

“Something something mustaches something important.”

Charles Vansart, Victorian strongman

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:06:43 -0400

Charles Vansart, Victorian strongman

Charlie Ferguson, pitcher for the Philadelphia Quakers in the...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 07:14:22 -0400

Charlie Ferguson, pitcher for the Philadelphia Quakers in the 1880s

H. G. Wells

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:25:38 -0400

H. G. Wells

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:38:47 -0400

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Robert Lewis Stevenson

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:35:32 -0400

Robert Lewis Stevenson

Young Theodore Roosevelt

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:19:14 -0400

Young Theodore Roosevelt