Pandemic Inspiration from the WPA

From the Library of Congress WPA Poster collection.

Apollo Mission Photos

NASA has a Project Apollo photo archive with amazing photos from all the Apollo Program. Here are some shots from … More

Soviet Fabrics

English Russia has a whole bunch of images of Soviet print fabrics from the 20s and 30s. Here are a … More

Color Photos of the Great Depression

These early color photos from the Farm Security Administration were taken when my mother was a child, in the late … More

Photos of the 1900 Paris World Exposition

From the Brooklyn Museum Flickr collection. Click and zoom for a closer look.

WPA Posters from the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has extensive online digital collections, including a comprehensive collection of Works Progress Administration posters from the … More

Beer as Health Food

I’ve posted before about the fascinating digital collections at the University of Washington Libraries. Tooling through the early advertising archive … More

Father Coughlin

Ads from 1940 Look Magazine

Having just been reading about the second world war, I found this March, 1940 Look magazine that Rick brought home … More

Illustrated History of the Finnish Bed

Suomalainen sänky (The Finnish Bed), by Leena Sammallahti and Marja-Liisa Lehto (SKS 2006), is an illustrated history of Finnish sleeping … More

Ed and Nancy Keinholz

One of the most exciting cultural events of my youth in Spokane, Washington, was when, in 1984, artist Ed Keinholz, … More

The Great Salt Flats and the San Rafael Desert

I told my cousin who lives in southern Idaho that we were going to the Great Salt Flats, and he … More

Masonic Lodge Supply Catalog

The Finnish Tramway Society

I came across this treasure trove when I did an image search for trams in Finnish. The Finnish Tramway Society … More

Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms

Thanksgiving is a good time to post Norman Rockwell’s series The Four Freedoms, inspired by Franklin Roosevelt’s speech to congress … More

Updated Political Posters

The Project for the Old American Century has a lot of wonderful reworkings of old propaganda posters from World War … More

Ernst Haeckel’s Scientific Illustrations

I posted a few days ago about Christian Gottfried Ehrnber’s scientific drawings, and received a link to these: They’re Ernst … More

Old Scientific Drawings

BibliOdyssey has a post containing beautiful old scientific drawings by Christian Gottfried Ehrenber. Pretty little tiny life forms. It’s fun … More

Civil War Envelopes

BibliOdyssey has a very interesting post up about envelopes printed with propaganda messages during the civil war. Here are some … More

Vintage Ad from 1961 National Geographic

The advertising is usually just as interesting as the official content of old magazines. Sometimes old ads are really sad, … More