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More doodles in my library-copy 50s YA sf books. This, at the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:30:34 -0400

More doodles in my library-copy 50s YA sf books. This, at the very end of Donald Wollheim’s _The Secret of Saturn’s Rings_ (1954).

The movements of the protagonists around Saturn’s satellites were definitely unclear in the narrative, so I can see why the reader felt the need to map them out.

A child’s art in my library copy of _Star Rangers_, by...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:35:40 -0400

A child’s art in my library copy of _Star Rangers_, by Andre Norton (1953)

heracliteanfire: ALEX SCHOMBURG 1905 ~ 1998 Winston Sci-Fi...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:37:54 -0400

heracliteanfire:

ALEX SCHOMBURG 1905 ~ 1998 Winston Sci-Fi Artwork ~ 1950’s (via The Golden Age)

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Wed, 15 May 2013 17:30:09 -0400

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mythologyofblue: Ernst Haeckel, Lichens, 1904

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:11:34 -0400

mythologyofblue:

Ernst Haeckel, Lichens, 1904

unhistorical: Sketch of Cthulhu drawn by H.P. Lovecraft in...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:08:42 -0400

unhistorical:

Sketch of Cthulhu drawn by H.P. Lovecraft in 1934:

To R.H. Barlow, Esq., whose Sculpture hath given immortality to this trivial Design of his oblig’d of all servants.

Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft

11th May, 1934

Asimov's perfect Saturday nights

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:35:11 -0400

Isaac Asimov writes about his Saturday night ritual as a 22 y/o newlywed, working in wartime at the Philadelphia Navy Yard:

“After dinner, I went out and bought the early editions of the two Philadelphia Sunday papers I was not ashamed to read [ed note: because their politics were sufficiently liberal]: the Inquirer and the Bulletin. When I brought them back, I placed them on the kitchen table…

I showered, then made myself a hot chocolate in a large glass, hot and very rich, and placed a half pound of cookies next to it. Those cookies were of a particular type that I have never been able to duplicate anywhere since and that I had bought at the same time I had bought the papers.

Slowly I read the comics of both papers, while dipping the cookies in the hot chocolate and polishing off the entire half-pound, and then drinking the unsopped-up remainder of the hot chocolate…

I then gave Gertrude [his wife] the comics, transferred to the living-room couch, and read all the war news and commentary in the rest of the papers.

All this worked best in the winter, when I would go out for the paper of a frosty evening and then be delighted to return to a warm apartment. Cole Porter’s ‘You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To’ was popular in the winter of 1942-43, and I would hum it as I was going for the papers and cookies, and look forward to returning to apartment and wife. To this day, when I sing that song (especially the line ‘Under stars chilled by the winter’) I find myself back on Spruce Street, going for the papers, and then I remember what I call ‘my Saturday nights’ and I ache with nostalgia.

I suppose they’re not what the average person would think of as good ‘Saturday nights,’ but those were mine.”

-In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954 (Doubleday, 1979), 386-387.

weirdvintage: Universal Food Chopper, 1890s (via Found in Mom’s...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:51:15 -0400

weirdvintage:

Universal Food Chopper, 1890s (via Found in Mom’s Basement)

Boys’ Life, June 1912. Baby Sherlock Holmes, here

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:07:29 -0400

Boys’ Life, June 1912.

Baby Sherlock Holmes, here

Einstein & childhood. Again. Fodder for the book...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:06:19 -0400

Einstein & childhood. Again. Fodder for the book conclusion.

Tang Yao Hoong, via Visual News.

Boys’ Life, April 1912.

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:51:53 -0400

Boys’ Life, April 1912.

From Life Magazine: “Science’s Brightest...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:23:57 -0400

From Life Magazine: “Science’s Brightest Youngsters,”December 8, 1961.

The text of the article tries to normalize these kids & is generally on their side. This pic…..not so much…..

I just like her red little side-eyes.

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:51:05 -0400

I just like her red little side-eyes.

Flickr user bcostin writes: “Introductory illustration...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:35:00 -0400

Flickr user bcostin writes: “Introductory illustration from the 1936 textbook ‘Human Use Geography, Book Two’. Found on the book sale shelves at the local library.”

From the great Flickr group Vintage Education.

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Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:52:12 -0400

Recommend best history Tumblrs?

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:47:22 -0400

slatevault:

Hi everyone - I’m hoping you can help me with something.

I’m looking for your recommendations of favorite history Tumblrs that are run by independent individuals (aka, not associated with museums, publications, archives, or other institutions).

Nominations?

(And/or reblogs for signal boost? Looking to get the broadest possible sense of what people like.)

Thanks!

Rebecca

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Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:27:43 -0400

sovietpostcards: from the Prehistoric animals set I had this...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:46:57 -0400

sovietpostcards:

from the Prehistoric animals set

I had this set as a child, and I remember sitting in my parents’ bedroom looking at this postcard and really wondering about those horns. :)

scientificillustration: Taraxacum officinale - the dandelion

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:40:41 -0400

scientificillustration:

Taraxacum officinale - the dandelion

Rosey Grier and children at the Watts Summer Festival, 1971....

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:29:50 -0500

Rosey Grier and children at the Watts Summer Festival, 1971. Originally published in the LA Times.

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