Showing posts with label 1890s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1890s. Show all posts
Monday, May 8, 2017

Kienzle Uhren Part II - Return to Life

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I have to say I wish I'd taken pictures of the resurrection of the old Kienzle Uhren. I'd intended doing a good pictorial of its rea...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Kienzle Uhren - A Clock from the Past

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If you’ve read any of my blog posts, you’ll know I do a lot of living in the past. Not socially - I’m not dressing up in a mourning coat an...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Everything New is Old Again: Oxtail Soup

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Being an avid watcher of cooking television, I've noticed some of the more hipster oriented shows have been venerating a certain bovine ...
Monday, January 9, 2017

The Funnies - Cured with One Bottle (1894)

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Cured With One Bottle
Monday, January 2, 2017

The Funnies - An Out-Late View (1894)

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Brown - "That's my new house, sure, but (hic) I didn't notices it was so awfully crooked (hic). It's not safe." ...
Monday, July 4, 2016

The Funnies - Fourth of July Special (1898)

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Before and after taking. July 7, 1898, Life Magazine
Monday, April 18, 2016

The Funnies - A Dog Worth Having (1894)

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Young Tutter - "That's a splendid big dog you have, Miss Pinkerly. Is he affectionate?" Miss Pinkerly - "Oh very. Co...
Monday, April 11, 2016

The Funnies - Following the Market (1894)

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Mr. Bond (the broker) - "Let me see. Cotton remains steady, flour is rather wavering, and - Ha! It is as I suspected. The worst ha...
Monday, April 4, 2016

The Funnies - A Goat Tea (1894)

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A Goat Tea Judge's Library, January 1894 I'll admit, it took me a while to get this one. Think hipster or Maynard G. Krebs....
Monday, March 28, 2016

The Funnies - Bank Failure (1894)

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Judge's Library, January 1894 I think this one qualifies for the Everything New is Old Again category too. All too often we thin...
Monday, March 21, 2016

The Funnies - The Moral: Stick to Your Vocation (1894)

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Judge's Library, January 1894
Monday, March 14, 2016

The Funnies - Laconical (1894)

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First Dog - "Are you going to eat?" Second Dog - "Gnaw." Judge's Library, January 1894
Monday, February 29, 2016

The Funnies - Fuel to the Flame (1892)

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"Adding fuel to the flame" Life Magazine, February 22, 1892
Monday, February 22, 2016

The Funnies - The Orator (1892)

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"That young preacher we heard to-day was a fine pulpit orator, wasn't he?" "Yes, if he could only control his voic...
Monday, February 15, 2016

The Funnies - Compensation (1892)

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Compensation "Dogs are more faithful than men!" "But men have bank accounts." Life Magazine, February 18, 18...
Monday, February 8, 2016

The Funnies - The Chaperon is to Blame (1892)

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"Well, I would have been engaged now if it were not for my chaperon." "Did she interfere?" "Yes, she became...
Monday, January 25, 2016

The Funnies - Time Change (1892)

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Visiting Englishman: By the way, what's the difference in time between New York and Philadelphia? New Yorker: About twenty years. ...
Monday, December 28, 2015

The Funnies - Special Edition: Happy National Card Playing Day

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The House Beautiful Life Magazine , January 14, 1892
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue

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From the 1894 book Cuba Illustrated Ed. with the Biography and Portrait of Christopher Columbus, an image of the three Caravels which b...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Rubber Limbs and the USS Oneida

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Running a blog that thrives on old periodicals means constantly pouring through moldering magazines and newspapers in search of the odd and...