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theoddmentemporium:

In 1906 The Journal of the English Folk Song Society published a piece on the old English ballad “Death and the Lady.” Some enterprising female entertainer encountered the article and realized the story might be used as a great vaudeville piece about the evils of card play and alcohol. Touring performers were always searching for material that would play well in the sticks. The city folks would enjoy the Grand Guignol staging, the traditional song, and the vocal technique. Here Joseph Hall, the Brooklyn born photographer who had made a career on baseball pictures and theatrical production stills, captured the sequence of the action, providing a peculiarly detailed & rare view of the progress of a single vaudeville performance.

Click on images to see larger, richer versions; you can see the complete series of photos on the Historical Ziegfeld website by clicking here.

soumamitsuko:

“I know this house and its ‘blessings’. Your ignorance won’t help her.”

Louise Brooks & Edith Meinhard, Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

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vicfangirlguide:

A photograph of a burlesque performer from the 1890s. Burlesque shows became incredibly popular during the 19th century as they displayed the female figure to a male audience used to seeing women whose forms were hidden by clothing such as crinolines. The modern form of burlesque was brought to America in the 1860s by Lydia Thompson with her group ‘The British Blondes’.

holdthisphoto:

L’actrice Jane Renouardt habillée en homme, 1900

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Hermann-Paul, « Barbarie. Civilisation », Le Cri de Paris, n° 1900, 7/10/1899, 

“The Two Emperors; Or, the Christian Czar and the Heathen Chinee.”

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L’inferno (1911)

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“‘The real tragedy is not the conflict of good with evil but of good with good’; that means a problem with no solution.”

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers, 1935. (Possibly paraphrasing W. H. D. Rouse.)

microecos:

Le Pangolin/Le Phatagin

From Buffon Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, Volume 6; Volume 27

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This is not a fascinating historical document. Reblogging because I sincerely hope that the sentiments it expresses will appear in museums alongside abolitionist and suffragist pamphlets, representing movements which have achieved absolute and unequivocal social change.

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thesefewpresidents:

yeoldenews:

I’ve come across pretty much every imaginable cause of death while researching, but this was a first.

(source: Consular Report of the Death of an American Citizen dated October 27, 1928.)

ETA: Got curious and tracked down a newspaper report of the incident. Ouch.

Homeopathic hospital? That Mitchell and Webb sketch is real?

haha “this infusion of essential rose oils in distilled water does not seem to be doing much, if anything, for this trapeze related injury…”

Report of the Death of an American Citizen, Melbourne, October 27, 1928. Reposted with commentary because it is hilarious.

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