I can't help but wonder - if you can't drive it into a place, where are you going to drive it once you get there?
Mackie Lake, Manitoba, Canada - 1932 - Cloyne & District Historical Society
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December 28, 2013
Tarzan, is that you?
Riding an elephant in a water ski show - haven't we all had that dream at one point or another?
Civilian Conservation Corps Map
The best thing about this map - and there is much to be praised - has to be the two CCC guys holding the shield. We need to reintroduce art to public works.
Schenectady, NY - 1937 - Grems-Doolittle Library Connection
November 23, 2013
The Poison Fiend
That is one whacked out Death, and I especially like the pitchforks at the bottom. Lydia Sherman, not someone you would have wanted to marry.
Philadelphia - 1873 - The National Library of Medicine
November 20, 2013
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
Homecoming
They're welcoming one of the first planes home from England; you can see its shadow on the water. The pilot, having flown throughout the war, cried like a baby at the sight of the flags.
Bygdøy - Oslo, Norway - 1945 - National Archives of Norway
November 17, 2013
deeper water than they cared to encounter
A LARGE SHARK CAPTURED A large shark has been prowling about the lower harbour for some time past, and up to Tuesday night evaded all efforts of the fishermen to take it. However at nightfall on Tuesday, Mr John Noble, a well known lower harbour fisherman was returning home, he was informed that the monster, some 18 ft long, was in the vicinity of Mr W. Innes's fishery. Mr Noble who has previously taken several sharks in the Port Chalmers waters, at once manned his boat and sent in persuit, succeeding, after a hard contest, in harpooning the creature off the George street wharf. The fish was then towed around to Tunnage's fishery to be hauled up. Here what might have been a very serious accident occurred, for a number of young and old of both sexes desirous of seeing the shark made their way round to Mr Tunnage's fishery and took up a position on the landing-stage designed for the reception of the fish. In all, the unexpected visitors must have been between 30 and 40. The landing stage (only intended to support the weight of the fish) proved unable to support the weight and it sank, taking its occupants into deeper water than they cared to encounter. One young lady, seeing the stage was sinking, very pluckily held on to a wire rope stretched above her head, and succeeded in sustaining herself and two friends. Some few bruises were sustained by some of the young people on the stage, but eventually everyone was landed.
Port Chalmers, Otago, NZ - 1901 - Natural Library NZ on the Commons
November 15, 2013
Smuggler Caves!
"In the 18th century it was popular with smugglers given its sheltered location and the secluded caves that can be seen in this photograph." I just found out I want to live in a crooked house atop some smuggler caves.
Prussia Cove, Cornwall - 1927 - @ The National Maritime Museum
October 25, 2013
October 22, 2013
October 19, 2013
See Saw
Farmer, farmer, farmer Brown, what will you give me if I let you down.
no information available - @ anton flow
October 17, 2013
October 14, 2013
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
Fixing a Zeppelin, high above the South Atlantic on the way to Rio. Some adventures are more adventuresome than others.
S. Atlantic - 1933 - @ La Boite Verte
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