“Images from archives, museums, and libraries. Curated by TeeTee Ella.”
This dog looks somewhat like my dog Coop, but Coop would never get caught in a top hat. It isn’t that he dislikes them, he just has a small head, and it draws attention to it.
Source: “Dog in top hat” (1894) Bonque & Kindermann photography – Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
An example of the human skeleton and muscles. For some reason, there is also a rhino. HIGH DETAIL IMAGES, click to view images more clearly.
Source: “Muscles Table IV” (1742) by Jan Wandelaar – National Gallery of Art, public domain. Back view.
Two frogs are carpooling to work on a snake. The little guy in the front actually prefers to be carried that way, he is quite alright.
This image is from a book which is attributed to two people – one being named Thomas FROGnall Dibdin.
Source: “Account of the mansion…” (1822) by Thomas Frognall Dibdin & George John Spencer – Internet Archive, public domain.
Just because you are going out on the town, doesn’t mean you have to be reckless – make sure you bring your gas mask and a comfortable pair of shoes.
Source: “Woman in gas mask during World War II” (1940) by Unknown – State Library Victoria Collections, CC BY 2.0.
Most of the time when people want to learn a smoke trick, it is smoke rings or big clouds. That is amateur level stuff compared to this guy, Alfred Langevin. He can smoke through his right eye duct. The ability came after he had nose surgery. My question is – How did he find out he could do it?
[REMINDER – SMOKING IS BAD]
Source: “Alfred Langevin…” (1938) by Unknown – Nationaal Archief, public domain.
If you are like me, and have a love for creepy art pieces, then it has probably led you to lots of imagery with titles or descriptions including the words “Triumph of Death”.
“Triumph of Death” refers to a section of a 14th Century poem called “Triumphs” by Francis Petrarch. And since I wanted to share this image anyway, I figured I could include a few lines.
How near you are your end; behold, I am...
Millions of dead heap'd on th' adjacent plain;
No verse nor prose may comprehend the slain
As in those trifling follies not to trust;
And if they be deceived, in end 'tis just:
Ah! more than blind, what gain you by your toil?
You must return once to your mother's soil
How many moaning plaints, what store of cries
Were utter'd there, when Fate shut those fair eyes
For which so oft I sung; whose beauty burn'd
My tortured heart so long; while others mourn'd
By force extinguish'd, but as lights decay,
And undiscerned waste themselves away
If you would like to read the poem in full, check out “The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch” for free via Project Gutenberg. That is where I got these lines from.
Image Source: “Illustration of Petrarch’s Triumph of Death” (16th Century) by Unknown – Bibliothèque nationale de France, public domain.
Some people call these guys hedgehogs, but I am rather fond of the nickname Hedgie. Plus, this guy also manages hedge funds – which is why his arms are way too humanoid for my liking. You can’t play in finance unless you are humanoid to some extent – that’s what they always say.
Source: “The Hedge..” (1817) by The Naturalist Companion – Biodiversity Heritage Library, public domain.
“Woman with slabs of bacon tied to her feet standing in a giant skillet holding an enormous wooden spatula and smiles at the crowd, Chehalis, Washington” – University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
Why eat bacon when you can stand on it? Just be careful of nearby dogs, or you might lose a few toes.
Source “Woman with slabs…” (1932) by Vern C. Gorst – University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections, public domain.
Costumes from a carnival in Cologne during the early 1900s. A pig wouldn’t be my first choice for a photographer – they have quite poor eyesight.
Source: “From the Cologne Carnival” (1914) by Haeckel Brothers – Internet Archive, public domain.
This is a stereograph still life of dried plants. The ghostly flowers fit very well with the “Beautiful in Death” caption. The dried plants are sure to be dust by now – leaving just the creepy words without context.
Source: “Still life with dried plants” (1858) by William England – Rijksmuseum, public domain.
