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Artist Using Photoshop Technique to Manipulate Bizarre Christmas Photos With Her Beloved Dog

December 24, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteUsing Photoshop technique, Jen Hack (@jen_hack) manipulated some bizarre Christmas photos from the early 20th century with her […]

Jake the Alligator Man, the Mummified Half-Man Half-Alligator Used to Smoke and Cross-Dressed Celebrity

December 20, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteNo one knows for sure where Jake the Alligator Man originally came from, but Junior Marsh has heard […]

Giant Santa Claus at Porter Chevrolet in Dallas, Texas in December 1953

December 19, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteWhen Porter Chevrolet opened at 5526 East Mockingbird, it asked and got permission from the Dr Pepper Company […]

Carol Singers Wore Masks and Creepy-Looking Cloaks in Hampstead, London, 1910

December 17, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteLike these spooky bin bags, collecting in aid of a charity in 1910. The costumes are a throwback […]

An Ad for Iver Johnson Revolvers From 1904 Claimed to Be Safe Enough to Be Near Babies

December 16, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe gun culture has deep roots in American history, dating to our colonial beginnings. By the turn of […]

These Festive 42-Inch Hairdos Decorated With Tinsel and Ornaments in 1962

December 15, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteTwo young women display their holiday hairdos, each with 42-inch hair decorated with tinsel and ornaments. Claudette Ackrich’s […]

5 Monsters From Christmas Past That Never Made It to America

December 13, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAmericans are used to Christmas stories usually being sweet tales of generosity and kindness. But in the rest […]

Meet Miss ‘Sputnick’ Anne Marie Dupont, aka Dyna Sputnick

December 11, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteMiss ‘Sputnick’ aka DYNA Sputnik is the latest striptease girl to hit Paris. Her topical gimmich is currently […]

Demonstration of Cryovac Latex Balloon to Solve the Problem of Packing Quick-Frozen Meats, ca. 1939

December 9, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn 1937 a French scientist named Maurice Piettre, when he arrived in the U.S for a conference on […]

World’s Largest Woman and Smallest Man, July 1922

December 5, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe world’s largest woman in 1922 next to the (billed) world’s smallest man: Nellie Blanche Lane (1898–1955) was […]

A Collection of 20 Fabulous Potato-Themed Real Photo Postcards From the Early 20th Century

December 5, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteWARNING: if you are a PL (Potato Lover), some of these photos might be too hot to handle! […]

Acting Out: Amazing Cabinet Cards Offered a New Outlet for Entertainment and Remembering Life’s Everyday Moments From the Victoria Era

December 4, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThroughout the nineteenth century, the rapidly developing technology of photography revolutionized popular media and its consumption. Once complicated, […]

In the Old Days at Christmas, Women Apologized to Their Husbands for Their Mistakes During the Year

December 3, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAt the turn of the 20th century, where traditionally at Christmas women would get on their knees and […]

Inventor Preparing to Test His Self Propelled Aquaplane, 1935

December 2, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Shapson Aquaplane, invented by S. Shapiro, was demonstrated for the firs time on the beach at Santa […]

20 Weird Japanese Inventions That We Definitely Need

December 2, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteJapan, the land of the rising sun, is world-reknowned for its technological prowess. It’s no secret that Japanese […]

Santa Claus in the Old Days

November 29, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn the old days, Santa Claus would gather up bad children, toss them in his basket, and whisk […]

Agatha Christie With a Dog-Restraining Device, ca. 1940

November 26, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteHumans domesticated dogs thousands of years ago, but it took until the 1940s for someone to create this […]

“Wash Away Fat and Years of Age!” – Hilarious Fat Reducing Soap Ads for Weight Loss From the 1920s

November 21, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 1920s had a boom in fat-reducing soaps, which promised women that they didn’t have to work out […]

Some Goofy Inventions by Russell E. Oakes From the Late 1930s

November 20, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteRussell E. Oakes, a Waukesha, Wisconsin, advertising man, is the Thomas A. Edison of goofy gadgets. In his […]

Hurricane Tree, Nassau, Bahamas, ca. 1890

November 14, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis giant silk cotton (or Ceiba tree) was located near the public square. Called the largest tree in […]

Racist Soap Adverts Have Been Around for Hundreds of Years, Here Are Some Vintage Ads Depict African Americans as Dirty

November 11, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThomas J. Barratt is often referred to as ‘the father of modern advertising’ for his revolutionary advertising campaigns […]

Tomatoes May Scream When Sliced

November 9, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteImagine you cut into a tomatoes with a newly sharpened knife. Imagine that you measure a finite electrical […]

1935 Adler Diplomat 8 Wheels

November 8, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Adler Diplomat is a substantial six-cylinder “limousine” built by the Frankfurt auto-maker, Adler. It was introduced in […]

Douglas A-1 Skyraider Once Carried a Toilet as an Aerial Bomb During the Vietnam War

November 7, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOctober 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 “Fist of the Fleet”, flying an A-1H […]

In 1924, a 106-Year-Old Essex Woman Placed a Personal Ad in the Dundee Courier

November 4, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn the world before online and speed dating, the pages of the local paper were the best chance […]

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