Oral X-Ray Machine

Do you think the X-ray techs giggled a lot?

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from Eros Blog

Mascots

Oh, just thought I'd take Foxy out, get a little air, brush him down.

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from Crappy Taxidermy

too much sherry

Watch out, Aunt Shirley's doing the Can-Can again!

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from unexpectedtales' always amazing flickr stream

Something Missing

A couple things:

- apparently, the white American family tree starts in pirate rape and works its way up from there

- I don't see any redheads here, so where did Howdy Doodie come from up top?

- isn't this really more of a family bush?

- seriously, this shit is some kind of white.

"Family Tree"

1959, illustrator Norman Rockwell

from 100 Years of Illustration

Old Man Harold Needed No Rescue From the Ladies

Go, Pappy, go! Seriously, I love to look at pictures of bikers partying in the 70s.

Florida

1970s

Death of the Green Fairy

What drives people to band together to decide what everyone else gets to ingest?

Swiss anti-prohibition poster

1910, illustrator Gantner

from The Virtual Absinthe Museum

sleeping on the sidewalk

Michael Faraday, John Gorrie, and Willis Haviland Carrier, hallowed be thy names.

New York City

1910

from Ephemeral New York, which is a very cool blog.

Civil Defense

She loves the attention.

Sangamon County, IL

1965

from The Sangamon County Historical Society

Father and Son Christian Bikers

Is it just me, or does that boy look scared shitless?

Arizona

1988, photographer Mary Ellen Mark

from The City College of New York

59 Club Members

Trust the English to have bikers that look like this.

London

1962 - 1970

from The 59 Club

World War II battle flag

When do you think the first group cared an animal hide or a few giant leaves into battle to rally around?

USS Balao

1940s

from Naval Historical Center

Aiding the Wounded

The happiest little war victims I ever did see.

England

1916

from lovedaylemon's flickr stream

Katzen Klo

A cat sitting on the john: international humor.

Germany
1950s
from hansziel's flickr stream

3 Girls With a Chicken

I would say they are certainly entitled to be proud of that chicken.

Florida
1950s
from Florida 4-H

Say Cheese

Look at them! They were having a good ol' time. I think someone just said something kind of naughty.

Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire
1890-1900
from KaufmaNelson Vintage Photography

Mad Scientist

The pain of his braces drove him MAAAAAD!

Milford, Connecticut
1972, photographer Andy Blair
from wavz13's flickr stream

Kneeling

What do you suppose the story is here? Is he asserting his beard dominance?

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from Recycled Relatives

Dinner at the Bear's

Seems loud, what with all the growling and roaring.

Fables by Ivan Andreevich Krylov
1913, illustrator V. Timorev
from The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

Get Out of My Sky

Some classic sf was hopeful and bright. Some, not so much.

Science Fiction collection
1957
from cdrummbks' flickr stream

Listen Listen Said the Mermaid to the Prince

Lying stretched on a bed of seaweeds at the bottom of the sea. ‘Listen! that is your old love playing, for mermaids know everything that happens upon earth.’

The Brown Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang
1904, illustrator H. J. Ford
from Project Gutenberg

smack

Honestly, about half this table load looks like they need a good slapping around.

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from unexpectedtales' flickr stream

Click on it and check out the illustrations in the word Drag. Very cool.

Drag Cartoons
1966
from MC Art Webzine

Bonnie McCarroll thrown from "Silver"

This was in 1915, and she walked away from it. She competed in the rodeo for fourteen more years before it killed her.

Pendleton, Oregon
1915
from SMU Central University Libraries

The Shining

Makes American movie posters look pretty anemic, doesn't it?

Polish poster
2007
from Polish Posters Shop

Dutch Children

That is the oldest little boy I have ever seen.

Ellis Island
1905, photographer Augustus F. Sherman
from NY Public Library

Rose and her Bugle

These two look like the best kind of trouble.

NYC
1913
from Library of Congress

Three people on swing in the countryside

Looks fun for the guy on top, at least.

South Korea
1904, photographer Willard G. Straight
from Cornell University Library

People Trafficking

This group of severely emaciated boys and young men on the lower deck of a Royal Naval ship apparently have been taken from what was a slave vessel trading illegally off the African coast headed to the Americas. The captain of the Royal Naval ship had instructions not to return the rescued slaves to the place on the coast where they had been put on the slave ship (presumably because they were in danger of being recaptured by traders) but it is not clear from the available documentation what happened to them afterwards.

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Atlantic Ocean
1869
from UK National Archives

The Newest Olympic Sport

The blue water, the green grass, the bare ass - you have to hope that was as perfect a summer day as it looked.

Kodachrome
1955
from What Makes the Pie Shops Tick's flickr stream

face plant

I've always wondered how much it would suck to fall off one of those big ol' bikes. Looks like the answer is: a lot.

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diddle diddle dumpling, my son John

A hundred bucks, this guy was drunk when he went to bed. Nice socks!

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from Global Pillage

posing with whale bones

When the hell were there ever whales up by St. George Island? I've seen plenty of dolphins from there and a shark or two, but a whale would blow my mind.

St. George Island, Florida
1898
from State Library and Archives of Florida

Mills

They look like they should bounce and sway if you push them, like those animsls on springs that are on playgrounds for kids to ride. Oh, and the date's not a typo - the color looks pretty amazing for something taken 100 years ago, huh?

Tobolsk Province, Russia
1912, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
from The Denver Post

Maunsell Sea Forts

Yet another in the series called Hank Wants to Live There. From naval forts to pirate radio stations, each one three stories of awesome scattered around the Thames.

Whitstable, England
2009, photographer James Butler
from slimmer_jimmer's flickr stream

Person holding snake

A teacher once told me that the majority of fatal rattlesnake bites in the US are in the head and shoulders. It happens when some fool grabs a snake by the tail and then whips it around or otherwise acts like an idiot to show off for friends. I somehow doubt that would happen to this guy.

Probably Oregon
1900-1909
from Oregon State University Archives

Lighting a cigarette

I see this as a sleazy cousin hitting on the widow. Succeeding?

Wales
1930, photographer Sam Hood
from State Library of South Wales

Like Girls from Mars Are These "Top Women"

How do you go from this to being a 50s-style housewife?

Gary, Indiana
1940-45
from US National Archives

American soldier with a joey

Good god, Joey, how are your hands so tiny and your feet so honkin' huge?

Australia
1942, photographer John Earl McNeil
from Australian War Memorial

Watching movies is a must

with the one you love and trust.

குமாரியின் ராட்சச காதலன், or Kumari Loves a Monster
2010, Rashmi Ruth Devadasan (writer) and Shyam (artist)
from Caustic Cover Critic

Name the Sport

I can smell the Brylcreem from here.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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from Augustana College's Photos on Facebook
Suggested by Anna.

Horrible.

Kill it! Kill it with FIRE!

Altered photo, New Zealand
1910, photographer Leslie Hinge
frrom The National Library of New Zealand

Piano for the Bedridden

This is one of those inventions that shows up on Antiques Roadshow, with the owner going, "We have no idea what the hell is up with this piano."

Great Britain
1935
from Spaarnestad Photo

Cubs

I like that the boy and the cub have essentially the same look on their faces. What do you think happened as they all grew up? (And whose hand is that to the side? A protective parent?)

Clifton Zoological Gardens
1854, photographer John Dillwyn Llewelyn
from The National Library of Wales

Eat up.

I think I've found the source of the "obesity epidemic".

Agricultural Adjustment Administration poster
1936
from Good-potato.com