Mid Century French Sculptural Tables
This rare dining furniture was highly sought after from the late 1960s. The glass tops sat over bronze or brass…
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Bicycles: 1930s Footage
This footage from the 1930s shows three minutes of bicycles on the streets of Durham, North Carolina (with plenty of…
Passion for Pull-Down Charts
Those pull-down charts that hung above blackboards in mid-century classrooms are back in style. Originals of solar systems or botanicals…
Mundane Monday – Crop
For a few weeks in spring, the area where I live is hemmed on all sides by fields of exquisite,…
Colour of Confections
How much more tempting can a display of confections get? At a gourmet market in Lyon, France. Posted as part…
Shadow Shot Sunday – Forest
Dreaming of summer when the sun’s heat makes it a luxury to escape into the soft coolness of this Red…
Ellis Island Lantern Slides
This lantern slide is labelled “Italian girl” by amateur photographer Augustus Sherman, who took images of immigrants dressed in traditional…
How to type music
Imagine trying to learn how to use this. It’s a music typewriter from the 1930s.
Mundane Monday – Portal
Hiking in early fall in an unfamiliar area of the sprawling Niagara Escarpment, we spotted what looked like a doorway…
