Posts tagged "obscure find"
  1. Notes: 273 / 1 year ago  from rrosehobart
    Actress Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986) attends the Film Memories Ball dressed as the Disney character Minnie Mouse. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 10th March 1933 fantastic! thanks to defrag & avaxnews

    Actress Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986) attends the Film Memories Ball dressed as the Disney character Minnie Mouse. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 10th March 1933

    fantastic! thanks to defrag & avaxnews

     
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  2. Notes: 58 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    ‘All the clocks had stopped…A void out of time. And here they are – looking out and holding themselves still – holding still at that point where two worlds join – the familiar – and the other.’ David Lynch in a foreword for Haunted Air by Ossian Brown [also] from littlewhitelies

    ‘All the clocks had stopped…A void out of time. And here they are – looking out and holding themselves still – holding still at that point where two worlds join – the familiar – and the other.’

    David Lynch in a foreword for Haunted Air by Ossian Brown [also]

    from littlewhitelies

     
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  3. Notes: 51 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    “Miss Devil, (Betty Taylor), smiles triumphantly as she overlooks the Hell scene presented by the Freshman stunt winners in their picturization of “Helle’s Bell.”The belles and gruesome skeltons in the pictures create the setting for the sad tale of Orpheus and won the cup for the class.” from 1944 Texas State College for Women Yearbook 

    “Miss Devil, (Betty Taylor), smiles triumphantly as she overlooks the Hell scene presented by the Freshman stunt winners in their picturization of “Helle’s Bell.”The belles and gruesome skeltons in the pictures create the setting for the sad tale of Orpheus and won the cup for the class.”

    from 1944 Texas State College for Women Yearbook 

     
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  4. Notes: 204 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    The Skeleton At The Halloween Dance ,1961

    The Skeleton At The Halloween Dance ,1961

     
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  5. Notes: 6632 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
    Costumed football match, 1920  from UniOfWestminsterArchives

    Costumed football match, 1920 

    from UniOfWestminsterArchives

     
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  6. Notes: 690 / 1 year ago  from theboatlullabies
    time for some obscure Halloween finds, it’s that time of the year;] from always exquisite  theboatlullabies

    time for some obscure Halloween finds, it’s that time of the year;]

    from always exquisite  theboatlullabies

     
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  7. Notes: 110 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Tod und das Mädchen puppets designed by Richard Teschner * [many thanks to 50watts for the link ;]

    Tod und das Mädchen puppets designed by Richard Teschner *

    [many thanks to 50watts for the link ;]

     
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  8. Notes: 144 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Apparition and prophecy, c.1976 from Verdeau

    Apparition and prophecy, c.1976

    from Verdeau

     
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  9. Notes: 35 / 2 years ago 
    Till Death Do Us Part… and beyond  from ordinary-light

    Till Death Do Us Part… and beyond

     from ordinary-light

     
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  10. Notes: 46 / 2 years ago  from invisiblestories
    Fir heart What an obscure find! thank you invisiblestories:]

    Fir heart

    What an obscure find! thank you invisiblestories:]

     
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  11. Notes: 119 / 2 years ago 
    Autopsy,c.1900s by F[r]itz W.Guerin [more at turnofthecentury] from Historical Ziegfeld

    Autopsy,c.1900s by F[r]itz W.Guerin [more at turnofthecentury]

    from Historical Ziegfeld

     
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  12. Notes: 567 / 2 years ago 
    Nazi Laundry,1935 [source]

    Nazi Laundry,1935

    [source]

     
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  13. Notes: 251 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Bohemia is the first stage in artistic life; it is the preface to the Academy, the hospital, or the Morgue.  Henri Murger, Scènes de la vie de bohème, 1851 Dancer Désiré in Jupiter, carte de visite, albumen print. Paris, c.1865 from La Bohème [The Staging of Artists in photography of the 19th and 20th century] exhibition at Museum Ludwig Köln

    Bohemia is the first stage in artistic life; it is the preface to the Academy, the hospital, or the Morgue.

     Henri Murger, Scènes de la vie de bohème, 1851

    Dancer Désiré in Jupiter, carte de visite, albumen print. Paris, c.1865

    from La Bohème [The Staging of Artists in photography of the 19th and 20th century] exhibition at Museum Ludwig Köln

     
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  14. Notes: 49 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Dermographisme [aka dermographism, dermatographism or skin writing] Démence précoce catatonique from Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 1904. via Morbid Anatomy

    Dermographisme [aka dermographism, dermatographism or skin writing]

    Démence précoce catatonique

    from Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 1904.

    via Morbid Anatomy

     
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  15. Notes: 26 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
    Ectoplasm [Second Lucy,Nov. 29 1931] via vvitch

    Ectoplasm [Second Lucy,Nov. 29 1931]

    via vvitch

     
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