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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Sarah LR

It was our beloved Squeak! A renowned hunter, while the other two were content to "supervise" She was a wonderful little void.

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Sarah LR

We had three cats at the time, and I can positively tell you exactly which one got it even though we just gotten home from vacation.

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Sarah LR

I once sat on my couch for an hour before realizing there was a bat corpse at my feet 😬

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Tinkeringbell

Lovely! Here you go. I'm not sure about the sugar; it looks like it says 2 lbs but uh... That can't be right lol. I'll check with my mom!

Ok it's 2 tablespoons. Happy cooking and baking!

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Tinkeringbell

Do you do any baking? I've got my great-grandmother's recipe for kolache (pastry with poppyseed or fruit jam filling). Handwritten and everything.

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Movies Silently

What, you don't shake a fist and sweep your cape aside dramatically when you fall off a cliff?

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Ashley Fairbanks

NBC did an interview with one of the longtime drivers yesterday, and he said it helped immensely that he used to cycle himself. It helps him predict what the cyclists might do in a given situation.

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

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B J. Witkin

if you've got a higher than 10% chance of surviving the holiday, is it even a holiday?

"...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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Alistair Coleman

I would drop this image every time I made a terrible pun, it's incredible

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Phil Vasquez

I can't hold onto them any longer, they're in the ceiling trying to escape into the skies

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Phil Vasquez

The way my eyebrows burrowed into my hairline, I'm telling you

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.

I love this!

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Michael John Simmons

Those are beautiful! I adore castles, but I have only ever toured one (Sanssouci in Germany)

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

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Michael John Simmons

Sorry this took me a day lol Woman gives birth to triplets aboard yacht, is attended by Mayor Doctor Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald Fri, Nov 23, 1894

"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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Jonathan Pierce

Calm down, Satan

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Troublesome Witch Girl 🌙

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