Kristy Baxter

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Vintage newspapers, magazines, and ephemera from every archive I can find.

Also cats and whimsy.

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Other Account: Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social

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Closed captioning got stuck on the TV so it looks like a weird tagline for peacock lol

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Happy birthday to American #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. 🐡🧪🔭👩🏻‍🔬#histsci In her day, women scientists were regularly hired to do menial chores. She was hired to count images on photographic plates as a "computer". In studying these plates, in 1908 🧵1/

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The Spirit of America

"...this contrivance will do away with the cannon cracker casualties of the Fourth of July. It is hard to think of an American misconceiving so completely the spirit of the great day." Life Magazine June 22 1905

Bug would say hello but his mouth is full, and he's nothing if not a gentleman

=OBEY the LAW Celebrate Without Powder BETHLEHEM "BIG-BANG" Liberty Gun Harmless and Safe and Sane No Matches--No Powder--No Danger Now Dad, Watch Me. Baltimore Sun June 22 1919

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I bet you want to see some recipes from this book.

"you can't spell MENOPAUSE without MEN" was right there

That's, uhhhhhhhhhhhhh...quite an ad University of Wisconsin-Madison Ebling Library for the Health Sciences 1970

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Russell Lee “Scene on 8th Avenue, New York City.” November 1936. Source: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress www.loc.gov/item/2017734... 🗃️ #skystorians #fsaphotographs #russelllee #photography

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Some travel sketchbook pages (most of these started out as pencil sketches and then I transformed them somehow or reworked them digitally) from Rome, San Francisco, Versailles and Toronto.

"Neither plain nor positively handsome" is a hell of a self-descriptor Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser Mar 25, 1882

"Fourth of July clothes means cool, comfortable clothes, that give freedom for action, yet have perfect fit, fine appearance and correct style for all occasions." Tulsa World June 27 1920

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Antidote for snakebite with hypodermic syringe, 1890s. If the snake didn't kill you, strychnine, the active ingredient in the 'antidote', probably would. Ref R09175 Redland Museum, Australia.

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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...

Taking a break for a little while, but if you reply with a town, I'll do my best when I come back later. This has been really fun!

Been saving this for a rainy day, and while the skies are clear, it's feeling pretty gloomy, SO Give me a town name (in one of the countries in the below image) and I will do my best to find a funny, cool, weird, or wtf in the newspaper archives for you. Help me find some bonkers shit!

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Not big on hunting, but damn this is impressive--and by the Corn King, no less! Waterloo Region Record Nov 05, 1935

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These kinds of headlines will always grab me Los Angeles Times Apr 8, 1912

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Liverpudlians defend the relative attractiveness of their residents Evening Express September 4, 1934

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This is one of those things that drives me nuts: when snake oil remedies grab you with a shocking, lurid headline But sometimes it's kinda funny Winnipeg Tribune Oct 5, 1907

"Beauty, charm and acting ability are not the only requisites of a Follies girl. They also must be capable acrobats to do their numbers well and for this reason Flo Ziegfeld personally directs the girls in gymnastic stunts" Morning Tulsa Daily World May 28, 1922

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this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers

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Star Wars convention art from 2007 by Adam Hughes. Mucha-infused Space Princess.

"The ball field was covered with grass two feet high and it was necessary to cut the hay before the single men could defeat the married men 33 to 17" Altoona Mirror 1957

Golden hour rainbow 📷🌈

Flags, flags, flags Omaha Bee June 29 1913

IMPROVE YOUR FACE by making faces

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Have some friends over to the patio, and the solar light came on as dusk settled. One of my friends: Why the fuck is Wall-E staring at me