» 1910s http://nothing-is-new.com Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:43:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 NO VOTES http://nothing-is-new.com/2012/03/04/no-votes/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2012/03/04/no-votes/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:44:16 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=8495
Pretty design for an ugly message. These stamps represent anti-suffrage for women sentiment. The stamps were produced by the Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women, circe 1918. Not cool Maine!

via Maine Memory

 

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Big time find by LY yesterday during work hours - Museum der Dinge (Museum of Things) in Berlin, also on the net. Scroll through a giant grid of things! Anything—from Leaning Tower of Pisa to a hand made walkie talkie (not pictured here). Taking note for my next trip to Berlin… 

1. Fernsehgerat ‘FS 60′, 1964
2. Puck, 1951
3. Bahlsen, 1950
4. Handschuhe, 1960s
5. Trinkglas
6. Tropfenfanger, 2010  (i don’t know what this is)

 

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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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