Posts tagged history

Posted 5 months ago

Vintage Taxidermy

Taxidermy is considered an art for practitioners and collectors. For others, it’s the unnatural preservation and distortion of life. However one views the subject, it is still oddly compelling to look at.

Posted 6 months ago
Posted 6 months ago

centuriespast:

Object: Plastered human skull

Period: Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Dimensions: H: 15.2cm. W: 16.7cm. L: 22cm.

Region: Palestine

Description: skull of adult male without the mandible (probably removed before deposit); an artificial chin was provided to give the face a natural appearance. Built up in clay and plastered with a smooth surface, coloured brownish-red (iron oxide, probably ochre). The plastering does not extend over the cranial vault, perhaps originally provided with some other material to simulate hair.

The Ashmolean Museum

Posted 6 months ago

An Ancestry of African-Native Americans

coolchicksfromhistory:

Using government documents, author Angela Walton-Raji traced her ancestors to the slaves owned by American Indians

Posted 6 months ago

Sewing class, 1914

Posted 6 months ago
Posted 7 months ago
fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Matthew Brady was a 19th century photographer, famous for documenting and exposing the conditions of the Civil War and is credited with being the father of photojournalism (and the thief of my heart).

I’d hit it (historically speaking)

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Matthew Brady was a 19th century photographer, famous for documenting and exposing the conditions of the Civil War and is credited with being the father of photojournalism (and the thief of my heart).

I’d hit it (historically speaking)

Posted 7 months ago

Anna Pavlova

Posted 7 months ago

Jaroslava Mucha (1909-1986) was the daughter of renowned Art Nouveau painter/illustrator Alphonse Mucha (who was also a cutie). Much of her life remains to be somewhat of a mystery, but we do know that she inherited her father’s artistic talent and dedicated her life to the conservation of his work. Also, she was quite the beauty!

Jaroslava Mucha (1909-1986) was the daughter of renowned Art Nouveau painter/illustrator Alphonse Mucha (who was also a cutie). Much of her life remains to be somewhat of a mystery, but we do know that she inherited her father’s artistic talent and dedicated her life to the conservation of his work. Also, she was quite the beauty!

Posted 7 months ago

mudwerks:

life:

Long before the days of food stylists — Argentinian matambre, a slice of beef rolled with vegetables and chilies, 1966. See more photos here.

=:O

Posted 7 months ago

coolchicksfromhistory:

November is Native American Heritage Month

All photos by Edward S. Curtis via the Library of Congress, original captions:

Top: O Che Che, Mohave Indian womanQahatika girlSelawik Woman

Middle: Chaiwa—TewaKlamath womanCayuse woman

Bottom: Wisham femaleTsawatenok girlYaqui girl

Posted 7 months ago

“Turkey in the Straw with Variations” by John Stone

This recording forms part of the WPA California Folk Music Project, which was a New Deal ethnographic field collection of song and sound documenting the music and lives of California immigrants, Dust Bowl refugees, as well as decedents of the men and women that were the first to settle the northern rural region of the state.   

On August 5 and 6, 1939, fiddler John Stone (pictured) performed for music collecter Sidney Robertson Cowell in Columbia, Tuolumne County, California.

Source: National Archives