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treselegant:

Illustration from Sherlock Holmes story ‘The Adventure of the Cardboard Box’

The Strand magazine, 1893.

fitzthedizzyspells:

go (by weepy hollow)

lickypickysticky:

Old fashioned “dashboard”. The way the Boston Globe would break the latest news to the public.

Long before the Web, The Boston Globe had a “homepage” of sorts – its old storefront downtown. Taking advantage of its location in a heavily trafficked block of Newspaper Row, the young daily brought the news to Bostonians in a whole new way: handwritten signs.

(via lickystickypickywe)

(via mirroir)

and on a happier note..

this is what my life has succumbed to. i am now a telemarketer. cant wait to be hung up on. 

The Queen in winter 1952 at 25 years old, absolutely stunning.

mirroir:

Rose-Marie, by Harbach, Hammerstein (1926 or 1927)