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Tag Archives: history

Forget Conventionalisms: Costumes as Inspiration

Jamie Moore Photography Not Just a Girl Inspirational Photoshoot Amelia Erheart
May 16, 2013 Amelia Earhart beauty Coco Chanel costume costume inspiration fancy dress fashion halloween Helen Keller history Jane Goodall photography style Susan B Anthony Women's History Month 6 Comments

I Am Not Strange. I Am Just Not Normal: The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí

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May 14, 2013 art artists Dalí dream history Painting Phillipe Halsman photography Salvador Dalí Surrealism vintage weird 7 Comments

Bury the Carnival: 50 Eerie Photos of Abandoned Amusement Parks

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April 25, 2013 abandoned Amusement park Chippewa Lake Park creepy halloween haunted history horror Japan Lincoln Park New Orleans Ohio Okpo Land paranormal roller coasters Six Flags New Orleans South Korea thrill rides 19 Comments

Divorced, Beheaded and Died: The Six Sorry Wives of King Henry VIII

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April 16, 2013 Anne Boleyn Anne of Cleves Catherine of Aragon Catherine Parr entertainment execution funny Henry VIII history Horrible Histories humor spooky wives of henry viii 14 Comments

I Dreamt of a Black Sea at Night: The Sinking of the Titanic

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April 15, 2013 disasters ghost ghosts halloween haunting history paranormal photography RMS Titanic sinking spooky Titanic Today in History vintage 6 Comments

Fast Asleep for 100 Years: Vintage Wax Anatomical Models

"Slashed Beauty" anatomical Model ca 1790 of wax, human hair, pearls, rosewood and Venetian glass case, via preservedproject photographed by Joanna Ebenstein
April 4, 2013 18th century 19th Century anatomical Venus anatomy art arts bizarre creepy geekery history illustration Joanna Ebenstein morbid museum oddities science vintage vintage science 27 Comments

Orient Express: A Century of Costume Inspiration

1982 Lene Lovich as Mata Hari
February 27, 2013 1890's 1930's 1950's 1970's arts bedlah belly dance costume inspiration dance danse du ventre early film fashion halloween history Naima Akef Princess Rajah Raqs sharqi Salomé Samia Gamal style turn of the century vintage World's Fair 16 Comments

The Lips of a Strange Woman: The Pulp Art of Margaret Brundage

Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (October 1937, vol. 30, no. 4) featuring Tiger Cat by David H. Keller. Cover art by Margaret Brundage.
February 5, 2013 1930's art cover art graphic art history horror inspiration Margaret Brundage Oriental Stories pulp magazines pulp novels retro Robert E. Howard Science Fiction SciFi Seabury Quinn The Magic Carpet vintage Weird Tales Women in Horror 20 Comments

Films that shaped the horror genre.

Suspiria image via WAYFARINGWALRUS
February 4, 2013 classics film genre history horror horror film horror movies movie Wayfaring Walrus 9 Comments

My Darling, My Ghost: Turn of the Century Spirit Photography

Couple with Young Female Spirit.” From The Spirit Photographs of William Hope, (1863-1933)
January 31, 2013 1920's frauds ghost haunting history Martha Stewart paranormal photography spirits Spiritualism turn of the century vintage William Hope 19 Comments

First Ladies of Fashion: A Pictorial History of Inaugural Gowns

1909 Helen "Nellie" Taft in her inaugural gown
January 24, 2013 1890's 1920's 1930's 1950's 1960's 1970's Civil War costume costume and makeup costumes Edwardian fancy dress fashion First Ladies gowns halloween history inauguration inspiration Michelle Obama vintage 7 Comments

Circus Circus: Today in History

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January 9, 2013 arts circus clowns history performance Superficial Gallery Today in History trivia vintage Leave a Comment

Silent Sunday: The Illustrated Volume of a Hundred Demons

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January 6, 2013 1700's art demons Edo folklore history horror Japan Sawaki Suushi Silent Sundays yōkai 7 Comments

A Single Light of Science: Today in History

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January 2, 2013 history Isaac Asimov sci fi Science Fiction Three Laws of Robotics Today in History trivia Leave a Comment

The Battlefield of Bacchus: Today in History

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December 5, 2012 1920's 1930's beer cocktails craft cocktails culture history New York Prohibition Prohibition in the United States Repeal Day Superficial Gallery Today in History United States Volstead Act 8 Comments

In the City That Never Sleeps: New York, New York

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November 14, 2012 1830's 1930's Acadia history New York New York City NYC photography public transportation Superficial Gallery Today in History vintage 21 Comments

Call in the Spirits, Wherever They’re At: Haunted Mansion Hair and Makeup

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August 9, 2012 cosplay costumes Disney DIY fancy dress halloween Halloween costume Haunted Mansion history horror how-to make-up makeup scary spooky steampunk video vintage 19 Comments

Silent Sundays: La Bibliothèque Infernale (1860)

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August 5, 2012 19th Century art devil french halloween Hell history horror Les Diableries Napoleon photography Silent Sundays stereoscope vintage 25 Comments

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