Eyrie

Nah, nah, I'm cool. I'll just stay down here.

Charles Broley - Florida - 1950s - Florida Memory

Cokey Snake-Proof Boots

Jobs I am glad I have not got.

Rattlesnake Milking Demonstration at Ross Allen's Reptile Institute

Silver Spring, FL - 1964 - Ipernity

Hunt Bowman in Lost World

Whole lot to chew on in this cover, from the one woman jet tank to the skeleton armed sword fighter. And check out that castle behind them, squirting purple goo as it collapses. A lost world, indeed.

Planet Comics No. 58 - 1949 - Pulp Covers

Happy Birthday, Raymie

Here's a magic cake to make your eye all better.

@ simpleinsomnia

Telephone Tower

Real life or a China Mieville novel?

Stockholm, Sweden - 1890s - @ Vintage Everyday

Louis Boutan

What the history books say: first underwater photographer. What the history books don't say: 

obviously a pirate.

France - 1893 - @ The White Dot

Municipal Bat Roost

At first, I thought, "Oh, they made it look like a little building,"  but then my perception of scale completely readjusted.

San Antonio, TX

1910

@ Library of Congress

Good for a Laugh

This is what I picture when I imagine hi-jinks at the Smithsonian. That's "a seventeen and one half foot long beard found in a North Dakota attic," in case you were curious.


Washington, DC
1967
from  The Smithsonian Institute Archives

danger zone

Just so you get the scope here, those guys are about 6 and a half miles from the explosion. Still, I have to believe that ain't safe. 

Nevada Proving Grounds

1953

from OSUL

let me get your attention

Now, how can I use this image?  

Aviation/Aerospace Fundamentals
1974
from the Reanimation Library

To the glory of Communism

Russian communism may have worked out badly, but you just can't touch their propaganda. This is beautiful. The open hands, throwing rocket victoriously into space. The look on his face, proud but good natured and human. The limitless reaches of space, waiting to be explored. Is it any wonder it's so primarily the Russians keeping the ISS stocked and manned?

USSR

from RussiaTrek

Astronaut Training

Okay, now, that's just fucking cool looking. I intend to appropriate this graphic at the next opportunity.

San Diego

from the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives

Archelon Skeleton

This is wrong on every level, but I want to have a small cottage roofed with the shell of one of these.

no information available

from Copyright Expired

discovery of fossils

Well now what the hell am I supposed to do with them?

Dinosaur National Park

1923

from The Smithsonian

The Iron Dobbin

I could write a whole novel based on this one kid, his mechanical horse, and that fucking fez.

In Italy, featured in Popular Science Monthly

1933

from The Futility Closet,

but seen (once again) on Uncertain Times

Plate I

War and information, all of civilization.

The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865). Part I. Volume II

1876

from the Villanova University Digital Library

Hall of Ocean Life

I am your God now.

New York, New York

1969, photographer Arthur Singer

from The American Museum of Natural History

Laughstronauts

Back in 1985, when I was 9 and Hurricane Kate shut down all the schools, my Aunt Lynn took my sister and I down to watch the shuttle blast off. It was the Atlantis, and there people right here rode it into space. I wonder if they laugh a lot in space. I wonder if it blew their mind every time they lifted off.

STS-61-B Crew

1985

from Retro Spaces Images

Valeriy V. Polyakov

When you live in space, this is what your house looks like.

Mir Space Station

1994

from The Atlantic

Plenty to Go Around

The kid checking out the tusks will always have a very different image of a walrus than the boy on its back.

Sunderland Museum, Tyne And Wear, England

1913

from The Tyne And Wear Archives and Museums