newhousebooks:

“Johnny Pineapple” Tourist brochure, c.1957, from my collection.

designstroy:

(via Svenska Mässan)

mapsinchoate:

Rocks and minerals of Egypt. From Napoleon I, Description de l’Egypte: Histoires Naturelles Planches. Volume 2 bis. Mineralogie. 1809. 

natgeofound:

Actors dress for a pageant as Britannia and her four knights in Hampshire, England, November 1928.
Photograph by Clifton R. Adams, National Geographic

natgeofound:

Twins drift on raft in lake water in front of medieval castle in Sirmione, Italy, July 1968.Photograph by Joe Schershel, National Geographic

lostsplendor:

“Shoeless teenage couples dancing in HS gym next to bleacher where rows of their shoes have been checked to avoid marring the facility’s hardwood floors during a Sock Hop, the latest craze to sweep the nation’s youth.” Oklahoma, 1946 by Alfred Eisenstaedt (via LIFE)

Charles Hayter, A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours, 1830 (via sisterwolf)

mythologyofblue:

Adam Neese + (via halfreaction)

natgeofound:

Landing signal officer and assistant wear experimental ear protection aboard the USS Midway, August 1955.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic