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The Malling-Hansen writing ball, the first commercially produced typewriter, 1865.
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Eyeglass measuring device used by Optometrists to measure your prescription eyewear. Germany circa 1910 8" Height x 5" Depth x 5" Width/Length from Obsolete Gallery www.obsoleteinc.com/
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Paris Arcades Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a writer and philosopher. Nikola Doll (*1970) is art historian and curator. www.hatjecantz.de...
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The Little Review, 10 (Autumn 1924 - Winter 1925). Hemingway's story, "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot," originally published in this issue, was later revised to avoid censorship for inclusion in Liveright's publication of in our time.
The Little Review, Margaret Anderson, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cocktail Garnish seed bomb kit by VisuaLingual, makers of the coolest Seed Bombs ever! source visualingual.word...
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Screen shot of pin board for an article I wrote about pinterest. seesaw.typepad.co...
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too funny, a formal portrait. petitcabinetdecur...
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Trompe'loeil Victorian Die-cut Glass of Pink Lemonade w StrawsA 6 3/4" x 6" die-cut heavy stock Trompe'loeil glass of what appears to be pink lemonade with two holes at the top for placement of real straw "straws". Easel back stand. Unusual Victoriana. Condition: overall excellent. No noted damage or imperfection. From www.eclectibles.c...
"...records of Japan's first national industrial exhibition in 1877 indicate a Yamagata prefecture hospital doctor named Motoyoshi Hasegawa showed off an elaborate set of fetus models illustrating seven different stages of growth, from embryo to birth." 19th-century pregnant dolls - Fetus model set (circa 1877) - Toyota Collection. For more see pinktentacle.com/...
Before the term "graphic designer" became part of our lexicon, many artist correspondence schools popped up across the country to train "commercial artists" for careers in advertising. During the 1940s and 50s, matchbook advertising was considered one of the most effective methods of reaching a wide audience of young talent, (or maybe they just assumed all artists were smokers at the time). letterology.blogs...
Archives meant to house and conserve photographic materials and other kinds of records – paper-based documents, films and videos, maps, and even things like tools and uniforms – exist specifically to slow the disintegration that is visited upon all these objects. It’s the same impulse that creates grand monuments and architecture. It proclaims the presence and the importance of those whose work or history are reflected in whatever is collected, set aside, and cared for. It links the past with the present, and lets us hope that perhaps some of our own material traces will outlive us, will survive the ineluctable dynamics of decay and dissolution.
Capucine in Paris source by Think_Pink www.flickr.com/...
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I have such a sense memory of this. I can almost smell it, and feel the glue coming out the nozzle. firegeezer.com/...
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Japanese Matchbox Label: City ladies. gurafiku.tumblr.c...
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Pierre Choque, Commémoration de la mort d’Anne, reine de France, duchesse de Bretagne, Paris; c. 1514-1515. rosebiar.tumblr.c...
Artist model arm and articulated hand, wonderful detailed fingers, solid pine. France, circa 1890-1910. From OBSOLETE, the amazing art gallery in Venice, CA. www.obsoleteinc.c...
RCA Nipper Dog "His Master's Voice" plaster composite of the famous dog. American circa 1920. From OBSOLETE, the amazing art gallery in Venice CA www.obsoleteinc.c...
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Suffragette Surveillance, 1913 ‘In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera, to covertly photograph suffragettes. The pictures were compiled into ID sheets for officers on the ground.’ "Thanks to the recent discovery of 90-year-old police files, unearthed by researchers at the National Archives in Kew, England, one can say with some confidence that -- in England, at least -- "modern" photographic surveillance began in September 1913. While it's true that Scotland Yard had been systematically photographing every single prison inmate incarcerated since 1871, these weren't true surveillance photographs because they were taken openly, at close range, and with the inmates' knowledge. But what Scotland Yard started doing at Holloway Prison in 1913 was something quite different, and uncannily similar to police and "intelligence gathering" practices that, today, have become both commonplace and technologically advanced: taking photographs covertly, from far away, and without the inmates' knowledge or consent. And this new regime of spying required that Scotland Yard buy some new, state-of-the-art equipment -- a Wigmore Model 2 reflex camera and an 11-inch-long Ross Telecentric lens -- and build and install a disguised location from which to take the pictures. All this was necessary because a certain group of inmates (18 political activists who'd been imprisoned for the "violence" of their tactics) refused to have their pictures taken by prison authorities. Every time they saw someone trying to take photographs of them, these surveillance camera players would do something -- hide their faces, make "funny" faces, refuse to keep still -- to ruin the final product, to make it useless in identifying them. These extremists were called suffragettes, and they were women who demanded the right to vote and, after 25 years of very difficult fighting, finally won it. source www.notbored.org/...
A set of watercolor paintings from a portfolio of children's art found in an estate in Philadelphia.
Vintage textbook entitled "The Way to Write," by Rudolf Flesch and A.H. Lass. Originally published in 1947, this edition was printed in 1955 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. In excellent vintage co
While infinitely amusing, Mail-Order Mysteries also pokes at the architecture of our deepest-running wiring to fall for fads, to seek shortcuts, to suspend our disbelief in the hope of becoming a better version of ourselves with minimal effort. Equal parts optimistic and tragically flawed, these parallel capacities for wonder and for guile capture one of the most tender dualities of the human condition.
SMALL KRAFT STRING & BUTTON ENVELOPES $8.00 Midori has been a leading stationery brand in Japan since 1950. Their collection of kraft envelopes brings back a bit of nostalgia. Six envelopes in a string & button box. Made in Thailand. Approx. 4-3/4"h x 3-1/8"w.
Arithmetic book. Brooklyn History. source www.brooklynhisto...
Liza Cowan: Color chart I made for my living room in 2001. Was West Elm peeking?
Athena wore the Gorgon Medusa mask on her shield to warn people against examining the divine mysteries behind it. Mask by Liza Cowan/CowanDesign
Set of 3 hollow lampworked beads in focal size. These would look great strung together or make a statement with just one. Tumble etched to take away shine, these are organic and stone like in appearance look great mixed with metal and earthy gemstones.
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