Tag Archives: 1910’s

1918: Gassed

Posted on August 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Singer Sargent: Gassed (1919) (source)

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1914: The Rothschilds’ Fleas

Posted on August 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

Although he may not have paid £1,000 for a flea in 1914 (about $135,000 today), the banker Charles Rothschild was in fact a respected entomologist and an avid collector of fleas. He acquired some 260,000 specimens, including about 500 new … Continue reading →

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1910: Suffragette Madonnas

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

The message of these anti-suffrage postcards is that if women have the right to vote, society will be turned upsidedown and men will become feminized, forced to do the women’s work of taking care of babies—how horrible! Although these … Continue reading →

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1914: Honour Has Come Back, as a King, to Earth

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Harry Clarke: “Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,” illustration for Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Dead” in The Year’s at the Spring; an Anthology of Recent Poetry (1920). The poem was first published in 1914, in the autumn … Continue reading →

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1918: Mysterious Island

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

N. C. Wyeth: Endpapers for a 1918 edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). The book, a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, recounts the adventures of five Union soldiers who escape their Confederate captors in a hot … Continue reading →

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1910: Portrait of a Woman

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Portrait of a woman by an unknown photographer; Senegal, c. 1910. Her hair style is called nguuka. “Created using black wool to produce two symmetrical voluminous spheres held by a textile on top of the head, this hairdo became popular … Continue reading →

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1918: No Bigger than a Bumble-Bee

Posted on August 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

There are some curious old stories told in the Scotch Highlands about dreams. It was believed that when asleep the mind or soul of the sleeper leaves his body and goes far afield, and when he awakes he recalls his … Continue reading →

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1918: It Is Well that No Protection Be Afforded the Bird

Posted on August 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Common Crow (corvus brachyrhynchos); frontispiece of The Crow and Its Relation to Man (E. R. Kalmbach, 1918). When feeding on injurious insects, crustaceans, rodents, and carrion, and when dispersing seeds of beneficial plants, the crow is working largely for … Continue reading →

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1913: Whitlock’s Folly

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

Once located on the southeastern tip of the Bronx, this mansion was built by Benjamin Morris Whitlock in 1859. Sitting on a fifty-acre estate, the structure boasted a hundred rooms and was said to have cost $350,000 (about $9.5 million … Continue reading →

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1919: Buffer Girls

Posted on August 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Rothenstein: Buffer Girls (1919) “Buffer girls” were women workers in the Sheffield metal industries who polished cutlery and silverware.

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