Old Money: 1915 | Shorpy :: History in HD
Washington circa 1915. "Miss Louise Lester, in charge of mutilation of old money at Treasury Dept." National Photo Company glass negative.
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29 July 2008 – 4:00 pm
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22 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
cursivebuildings
Old stereoscopes animated to give a sense of depth. Via Metafilter.
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18 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
Silver Lake on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Autochromes are a kind of early colour photography. This one is particularly fabulous, but check out the whole set.
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Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner
OK, fair's fair, this is quite funny.
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Marc Steinmetz [...]
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13 June 2008 – 11:01 pm
The Interview: 1916 | Shorpy :: History in HD
A fabulous picture at Shorpy: 'February 9, 1916. "Mountain Chief of Piegan Blackfeet making phonographic record at Smithsonian." The interviewer is ethnologist Frances Densmore. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.'
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1920s Black Americana Album - a set on Flickr
more old photos: 1920s [...]
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12 June 2008 – 2:01 pm
1930s German Culture Magazines - a set on Flickr
A curious mixture of fashion shots and Naziana.
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1935 Berlin Vaudeville Album - a set on Flickr
'This set of 72 images is from an album of Vaudeville performers in Berlin, Germany from 1935 to 1936. A sweet little book about 5" X 8", [...]
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6 June 2008 – 9:00 am
APOD: 2008 June 5 - Spitzer’s Milky Way
'more than 800,000 frames of data from Spitzer's cameras have now been pieced together in an enormous mosaic of the galactic plane - the most detailed infrared picture of our galaxy ever made.'
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How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
via Daring Fireball, a [...]
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5 June 2008 – 9:00 am
Pool Game: 1924 | Shorpy :: History in HD
June 20, 1924. Washington, D.C. "Mah-Jongg at bathing beach." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
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31 May 2008 – 9:00 am
Flickr Photo Download: Egypt: Gizeh
A sphinx. There are loads of cool 1900s lantern slides of Egypt uploaded by the Brooklyn museum. Check out the Paris exposition ones as well. via things magazine.
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APOD: 2008 May 30 - Descent of the Phoenix
Major geek porn: 'the 10 kilometer-wide crater Heimdall lies [...]
Wales photos
26 May 2008 – 3:35 pm
I’ve uploaded a set of photos from Welsh trip to Flickr. Here’s one of them, a singing whitethroat:
I somewhat felt the lack of a wide-angle lens, with all that scenery all over the place, and I’ve held back some of the best ones for my photoblog Clouded Drab (there’s a couple already posted), but I hope you can find some [...]
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24 May 2008 – 11:02 am
MikeSacks » photos of TV
Photos of TV. via Eyeteeth.
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