Because Reading is Fundamental...

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

1965 Portrait Jars from Michoacan, Mexico


Sold for $35.00 at Slotin.

"I've Got My Eye on You!"



How romantic....or creepy!

Carte-de-visite photographic study by W H Mason of Croydon.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Circa 1920's Naughty Nude Shooting Gallery Target

1916 Photograph of a Giant Shoe Trade Sign in Peoria, Illinois





“A PERFECT shoe more than fifteen times as large as the ordinary man's shoe, and weighing five hundred pounds has just been made by a manufacturer of Peoria, 111., to be used as a part of an advertising sign. This giant shoe, fifteen times as large as an ordinary shoe, is complete in every detail, even to the eyelets and heel strap. The shoe is made entirely of sheet metal and is seven feet six inches in height, fourteen feet long and four feet eight inches across the sole. It is complete in every detail, even to the eyelets and the strap for pulling it on, and is a perfect, magnified counterpart of the small shoe after which it was patterned.”

The Cougar Attack




Sunday, November 8, 2009

Cabinet Card of a Taxidermy Eagle


A Cartoon Tintype

J.L. Arnold Carries Pretty Much Everything!

1860 Lincoln Ferrotype Campaign Button

Colonial New England Headstone Carving


Probably one of the best headstone carvings I have ever seen.

From the Flickr photoset of jlbriggs.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Cabinet Card for Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store





Friday, November 6, 2009

Early Midwife Fetal Doll with Umbilical Cord and Placenta




1880 Richardson’s Magneto Galvanic Battery


When worn around the neck would cure any disease. Or not.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

1880's Stereoview Card of Elder Brewster's Chair




The back is marked "Plymouth Series, G. Carver's Chair, Elder Brewsters chair".