Mastodawn

1918 Public Utility Innovation: Era-Defining Ad Art

This ingenious external meter box eliminated the need for home entry, saving time and hassle for both the meter reader and the 'busy housewife'. A true marvel of early 20th-century convenience! 🏠

#blastfromtheads #1918 #1910s #externalmeter #meterreading #utilityinnovation #homeconvenience #vintageadvertising #historicaltech #edwardianlife #homehistory #timesaver #oldnewspaper #retroinnovation #early20thcentury #publicutility

John Mar 16, 2025

Big piles of old Newspapers
50mm 1.0
March 2025
In the old abandoned stable there were stacks of old newspapers, the newspaper at the top was from March 2012, so that might be the last year the farm was inhabited

#photography #photographer #photo #photos #photograph #blackwhite #blackandwhite #bw #bnw #bnwphotography #blackwhitephotos #monochrome #monochromatic #street #Streets #streetphotographer #Streetphotographers #streetphoto #streetphotos
#urban #urbanphotography #urbanphotographer #urbanphoto
#city #cityscapes #citylife #50mm #50mmlens #50mmf1 #50mmphotography #abandoned #abandonedphotography #urbex #urbexphotography #urbexexplorer #urbexworld #newspaper #oldnewspaper #history #historic

Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏Nov 26, 2024

Happy REBECCA RACCOON DAY to all who celebrate!

She avoided the dinner table, and lived as a White House pet for the rest of the term.

The immortal headline is from the Boston Herald, 26 November 1926.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/raccoon-was-once-thanksgiving-feast-fit-president-180973665/

#ushistory #foodhistory #thanksgiving #1920s #raccoons #raccoon #boston #mississippi #oldnews #oldnewspaper

Raccoon Was Once a Thanksgiving Feast Fit for a President

Calvin Coolidge refused to cook the raccoon sent to him, but the critter was a beloved staple for many Americans

Smithsonian Magazine

Aug 24, 2024

১৯৭২ থেকে ১৯৭৫ সাল পর্যন্ত
স্বৈরাচার শেখ মুজিবুর রহমানের সব ইতিহাস লুকিয়ে রাখা হয়েছিল।

১৯৭২ সাল থেকে ১৯৭৫ সাল পর্যন্ত সকল
পত্রিকার লিংক একসাথে

১৯৭২-৭৫ এর পত্রিকা: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7DjM84iwni60arAUKMnCsU4XHlq4OQS/view?usp=sharing

যারা স্বৈরাচার মুজিবের ইতিহাস জানেনা তাদের জন্য!!!

#bangladesh #newspaper #1972to1975NewsPaper #history #OldNewsPaper #old #bangla #SheikhMujiburRahman

বাংলাদেশ ১৯৭২-১৯৭৫.pdf

Google Docs

Carl Johnson Feb 15, 2024

Post-Valentine's Day report from the Masons:

#newspapers #oldNewspapers #OldNewspaper #headlines

Carl Johnson Oct 29, 2023

Lots of #OldNewspaper #headlines were, to say the least, insensitive.

#newspaper #newspapers #OldNewspapers

Siberian Feb 17, 2023

Advertising 1900
News for ball gowns:
Indian cloth, crepe, velor, pleated and many other fashionable and smooth fabrics. Fantasies of all kinds of colors and patterns.

#history #OldNewspaper #foundobject #readymaid