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Clippings found during my historical research. Showcasing the awesome primary material from around the web.

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Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico 1940 Really striking with it being in color. It really isn't that far in the past. #c20th LOC http://flickr.com/ph...#c20th LOC http://flickr.com/ph...

If you ever wondered where Wile E. Coyote got his crazy contraptions, here it is... 1976 #c20th LOC www.flickr.com/photos/libra...

The Winamp Skin Museum is a gallery of thousands of custom interfaces for the popular Winamp media player. Doesn't sound like history? It is, because it is a great example of the visual culture of the early 2000s. #c21st skins.webamp.org/#c21st skins.webamp.org/

Peanut butter raisin cupcakes, 1945 These looked interesting, that's all. 🗃️🍜 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

Its a smart dentist that locates next to a candy shop! #c19th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c19th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

Crisco cake recipe, 1945. I'm going to try making this. I'll bet it's different than a normal British cake. Look away Prue and Paul... #c20th 🗃️🍜 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th 🗃️🍜 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

Salami noodles recipe, 1944. I think this is way better than it looks. #c20th 🗃️🍜 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th 🗃️🍜 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

Fried Potatoes covered in a wine, butter and sugar sauce feels like it would work... I don't know how, but it does. #c18th Google Books www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

Sometimes you find something in the LOC Flickr that's makes you want to find out more and makes you go awwwww to boot! Caption this! circa 1914 🐶 #c20th LOC www.flickr.com/photo...#c20th LOC www.flickr.com/photo...

Lucky Strike ad in Hebrew (or is it Yiddish?) language newspaper, 1931 For all the Mad Men fans out there. 🗃️ #c20th LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

More cool dresses! This time they're from 1897. Love the patterns. Way more flair than I normally think of for the Victorian period. #c19th LOC chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030...

Spring suits, 1920 newspaper ad. I just thought they looked cool. LOC chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030...

Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas 1943 LOC flickr.com/photos/libra...

Curtis NC-4 flying boat. Late 1910s That thing is huge, and doubly impressive considering that this was less than 20 years after the first powered flight... #c20th LOC flickr.com/photos/libra...

Forgot to post today. So here's a baseball player playing a piano outdoors... #c20th LOC flickr.com/photos/libra...

I'd like to say this store in Waco, TX looks kinda creepy, but it really is my kind of store. I'll bet it had some cool stuff. 1982 #c20th 🗃️ LOC www.flickr.com/photo...#c20th 🗃️ LOC www.flickr.com/photo...

Happy 4th of July! I'll be making chili dogs to celebrate, but I will *not* be using this recipe from 1960 that calls for evaporated milk in the chili. But part of me wants to try it... #c20th 🗃️ 🍜 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th 🗃️ 🍜 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

Victrola ad, 1916. $15 - $400 ? What's the difference in what those two prices get you? #c20th LOC chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058...

When you eat at the Hotel Bellclaire, they'll make sure to pluck your chicken before you eat it... I love these little details that tell you something surprising about the past. 1916 #c20th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

The London Picture Archive contains loads of #c19th pictures of London. Great for historians, and fiction writers looking to inspire a mood! www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/gallery?i=32...

"Keep your kids safe by buying them gum instead of fireworks" is a pretty insane advertising slogan, but I can't argue with the logic behind it. #c20th 1911 LOC chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045...

I've been researching a lot of really silly details about the 1910s lately and came across the cigarette ad from 1913. My first reaction was "that's a dumb promotion" and my second was "I want a tiny rug" Well played #c20th tobacco man... 🗃️ 🚬 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th tobacco man... 🗃️ 🚬 LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

Deli ad 1901. There's some really familiar (and tasty looking) stuff on there and some stuff I don't really recognize. Nut and pineapple cheese? is that cheese with that stuff in it? #c20th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

I know this is a pharmacy, but i couldn't help but giggle at this 19016 ad. #c20th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

Had my head in Vaudeville again and I thought this was cool: the Japanese sumo champion doing demonstration matches at one of the big vaudeville theatres in New York. 1908 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030...

I cant talk in terms of typos, but this is a really strange ad from 1903. The numerous typos are really weird, and it seems to be openly advertising photo services for pornographers? Not sure what to make of it. #c20th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...#c20th 🗃️ LOC chroniclingamerica.l...

TuckDB is a huge collection of over 100k #c19th and #c20th postcards published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Lots of very interesting depictions of life in that period. And there's related collections of ephemera and catalogues! 🗃️ www.tuckdbpostcards....#c19th and #c20th postcards published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Lots of very interesting depictions of life in that period. And there's related collections of ephemera and catalogues! 🗃️ www.tuckdbpostcards....

The American Vaudeville Museum Archive has thousands of pictures of Vaudeville performers from the decades of the artform's heyday. vaudeville.library.a... #c19th #c20th 🗃️

Giant chicken, with hat. Tennessee, 1984 It is apparently for a place called Shirt World. I'm not sure I see the connection. #c20th 🗃️ LOC http://flickr.com/ph...#c20th 🗃️ LOC http://flickr.com/ph...

You know what, I just came across this ad and I don't have a whole lot to say, other than I feel like there's a lot to unpack here. You'd think by 1918 there wouldn't be such heroic depictions of war in adverts... #c20th 🗃️ 🚬 LOC chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030...