» 1910s http://nothing-is-new.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:05:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 OOOOO http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/08/01/ooooo/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/08/01/ooooo/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:40:54 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=7639

Necklaces of Ainu, Ojibwa and Unidentified Cultures.
via Beloit

1. Woman’s tamasay or necklace made of glass beads and red cotton tape. Ainu ethnographic material purchased by Dr. Frederick Starr in 1912 from Oyabe Jenichiro, most probably from the Volcano Bay area. Japan

2. Red and white bead necklace with two elk teeth pendants and a leather closure.
People/Culture Unidentified Culture

3. Small brown leather bag with fringe, sewn closed, decorated with white beaded star or flower in the center of the bag. Bag attached to white and red beaded necklace. Ojibwa-Red Cliff Band, Wisconsin USA

4. Quill and bead necklace with a leather thong closure. People/Culture Unidentified Culture


 

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Happy Independence Day! I hope you’re wearing your best Lady Liberty gown.
Fourth of July, 1918. Tableau on Ellipse: Liberty, Columbia and Dancers

via Library of Congress

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Rainbows in the military—The ‘Rainbow Division’ was the nickname given to the U.S. 42nd Division. It comprised units from 26 states across the country. Colonel Douglas MacArthur remarked that “the 42nd Division stretches like a Rainbow from one end of America to the other”.

1. Rainbow Division officers from WW1
2. Michigan 42nd Rainbow Division Memorial 1936
3. Rainbow Division Map, WW2

Hello my rainbow tumblr friends!

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Door, place—mats! All shapes and sizes from all around the world. I’m loving the degenerated quality of the images. They all look like ’80s video art to me.

via Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the University of Wisconsin

 

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Whoa! Utah men dressed as women, women dressed as men, c. 1910.

via BYU

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Hanging on campus, making the scene. I think there needs to be a Dorm Room tumblr, it’s the logical next step after Teenage Bedroom. Dorm rooms are teenage bedrooms when the parents aren’t home.

1. Poster of Bridgette Bardot in dorm room, 1967-68
2. Unidentified men in costume for Class Day activities, 1910
3. A dorm scene, 1974

via Tufts Digital Library

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