Mastodawn

Okay I am FASCINATED by this ad & announcement from the 1870s

I mean, Satan taking a keg – into hell – is just a throwaway background detail

"At J. W. Tufts' arctic pavilion... may be seen the largest and most magnificent soda water apparatus in the world. Its towering height of costly marbles, and its elegant architecture, (embellished with a tropical garden) ... altogether constitutes the grandest achievement of this description that has ever been accomplished.

"Its immense ice-cavern is reached by a flight of stairs from the cellar, and in its ample space, numbers of workmen perform their duties of supplying it with ice and its delicious fruit syrups, with perfect freedom. Height, 33 feet. Value $25,000. Pay it a visit."

from the Centennial Exhibition (World's Fair), Philadelphia PA

#oldadvertisements #oldadverts #polarbears #devil #soda #victorians #philadelphia #Pennsylvania #victorian

DoomsdaysCW Dec 28

So much #OldSchoolTech in these shows!

#VictorianFarm - Christmas Special
2009 · 1 Season

TV-PG
Documentary

"Discover in depth how the #Victorians created the celebration of #Christmas as we know it today."

https://tubitv.com/series/246/victorian-farm-christmas-special

#OldWays #Histodon

Sarah Arnold Dec 26

This is my clay pipe fragment collection.

The loose ones are all from my garden (house is probably ex-farmhouse, built c. 1840). The ones in the bag are local, but from not-my-garden.

I like how they are all different thicknesses. A couple of fragments seem to be mouth-end ones. I do not have any bits that have enough intact bowl to identify much information/guess a date.

The single piece is my newest addition. I forgot about it temporarily as it was still drying from being washed.

I guess I'm sharing this because I find it interesting and probably someone on the Fediverse will find it interesting too. Or at least it'll break up doomscrolling.

#History #ClayPipe #IndustrialArchaeology #Victorians #DomesticHistory

cluaran Nov 19

‘I awoke at ½ past 7’
Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the #Victorians are to blame

https://aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation

#142holdheap #diaries #selfhelp #history

Victorian diary-writers kicked off our age of self-optimisation | Aeon Essays

Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame

Trevor McLeod Nov 17

I suffer from self-quantification as well. I keep a list of #thingstodo and #projects to work on. This is an interesting read, especially about Anne Lister, who is dramatized in the series #gentlemanjack

Turns out the #victorians are to blame!

https://aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation

Victorian diary-writers kicked off our age of self-optimisation | Aeon Essays

Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame

SFO Museum's Instagram Bot Nov 7

"At the turn of the twentieth century, women’s ankles were covered with long skirts, silk stockings, and tight-fitting, feminine ankle boots. The majority of shoes were black, brown, or white. Part of the reason for the predominance of black and brown shoes was because people believed that darker colors made feet look smaller. Generally, leather was preferred for most footwear in the late 1890s and early 1900s. As the century progressed and women’s skirts became shorter, they began to wear showier shoes. Buttons and laces were commonly used as closures on shoes and boots in the early 1900s. The wide, curved Louis heel, which originated in the 1700s, re-emerged in the 1870s and remained the common dress-shoe heel until the mid-1920s. See more shoes from all over the world in "Stepping Out: Shoes in World Culture" on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. http://bit.ly/ShoesinCulture" This was posted to our Instagram account on July 14, 2017 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729359309/

LionelB Sep 13

A sermon extract from the Entomology book.

#entomology #victorians

Deanosim Aug 1

Warning to all #Victorians in #Melbourne #Australia #Lilydale this utter fuck wit will cut you off in a merging lane and hit your car and then do a runner instead of stopping.

Deanosim Aug 1

Warning to all #Victorians in #Melbourne #Australia #Lilydale this utter fuck wit will cut you off in a merging lane and hit your car and then do a runner instead of stopping.

IHC Jul 30

📗 Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'.

👉 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4

@histodons
@histodon
@botany

#Histodons #Botany #Plants #Historiography #Victorians #VictorianEra #VictorianBotany #EconomicBotany #Ethnobotany #HistoryOfPlants #SocialHistory #HistoryOfScience #SciHist