Untitled

woodendreams: (by Vic Liu)

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:43:09 -0500

woodendreams:

(by Vic Liu)

Detail of the Week: Embroidery Glove

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:40:58 -0500

thelondonstylejournal:

Comfort against the wintery climate meets genteel style with this beautiful placement rose embroidery glove.

ecocides: Aurora in Kiruna, Swedish Lapland | image by antony...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:37:56 -0500

ecocides:

Aurora in Kiruna, Swedish Lapland | image by antony spencer

The London Style Journal: Prada Spring Summer 2013 Womenswear

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:14:05 -0500

The London Style Journal: Prada Spring Summer 2013 Womenswear:

thelondonstylejournal:

We love prada’s spring/summer 2013 womenswear campaign which follows in the same vain as the menswear campaign. Incorporating a series of intimate portraits of models, intended to reveal the models’ individual personas and channelling Prada’s take on modern felinity. Staying true to the…

pith: I stopped by the What the Dickens? Third Annual A...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:03:57 -0500

pith:

I stopped by the What the Dickens? Third Annual A Christmas Carol Marathon at Housing Works on Saturday to catch up with all my favorite bookseller friends and take some photos.

And then I ran off to eat some latkes, but that’s a different story all together.

See the rest of the photos on Flickr…

historical-nonfiction: At the height of staggering inflation in...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:32:32 -0400

historical-nonfiction:

At the height of staggering inflation in the 1920’s, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.

wanderlustintraining: Photograph by Martin Gray (National...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:24 -0400

wanderlustintraining:

Photograph by Martin Gray

(National Geographic) A person standing in the doorway of the Monastery at Petra, Jordan, shows the enormity of the ancient building’s entrance. Carved into the sandstone hill by the Nabataeans in the second century A.D., this towering structure, called El-Deir, may have been used as a church or monastery by later societies, but likely began as a temple.

teatimeatwinterpalace: Queen Victoria and her marriage

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:29:33 -0400

teatimeatwinterpalace:

Queen Victoria and her marriage

photojojo: Introducing the Macintosh, Newsweek 1984. The...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:28:19 -0400

photojojo:

Introducing the Macintosh, Newsweek 1984. The beginnings of digital image editing.

via beccap

ohosoclassy: Sisters Marie of Romania, Grand Princess Victoria...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:26:32 -0400

ohosoclassy:

Sisters Marie of Romania, Grand Princess Victoria Melita, and Princess Beatrice of Orléans Borbón. 1906.

jothelibrarian: Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:25:56 -0400

jothelibrarian:

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a glorious fifteenth century missal from the collections of the National Library of New Zealand. According to the caption on the Flickr Commons:

This Missal was copied in England (perhaps London) between 1400 and 1425, possibly at the workshops of Johannes and of Herman Scheerre. A Missal is a book containing the text for the Mass. This beautifully decorated manuscript contains illuminated initials in varying sizes from 1- to 6-lines. Originally it also had three elaborate, probably historiated, 8-line initials, but two of these have been cut out of the manuscript (one of these pages is shown here on the left). The left-hand page also has an elaborate border with scroll-acanthus, birds, and feathery spray motifs in blue, orange, red, green, white, black and gold. At the fore-edge of the right-hand page you can see a white page-marker.

Image source: Alexander Turnbull Library MSR-18. No known copyright restrictions. Available via the Commons on Flickr.

life: April 30, 1945: Hitler commits suicide.In the spring of...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:25:22 -0400

life:

April 30, 1945: Hitler commits suicide.

In the spring of 1945, LIFE’s William Vandivert was one of the first photographers to document the ruins of Berlin and the burned-out bunker beneath the city where Hitler and Eva Braun spent their final hours

In his typed notes to his editors in New York, Vandivert described in detail what he saw. For example, of the sixth slide in this gallery he wrote:

“Pix of [correspondents] looking at sofa where Hitler and Eva shot themselves. Note bloodstains on arm of soaf [sic] where Eva bled. She was seated at far end … Hitler sat in middle and fell forward, did not bleed on sofa. This is in Hitler’s sitting room.”

Remarkable stuff — but, it turns out, only about half right. Historians are now quite certain that Braun actually committed suicide by biting a cyanide capsule, rather than by gunshot — meaning that the blood stains on the couch might well be Hitler’s, and not Eva Braun’s, after all.

Read more here.