1910s
Dud Leaves Home
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 03, 2022 -
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Category: Children, Cartoons, Dogs, 1910s, Love & Romance
Motorcycle Travel Via Pipeline
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 28, 2022 -
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Category: Technology, Infrastructure, 1910s, Motorcycles
Flirtation Codes of the early 20th Century
What a chore flirtation must have been back then if you had to memorize all these codes.
Philadelphia Inquirer - Oct 8, 1916
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 16, 2022 -
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Category: Languages, 1910s, Love & Romance
The Mentality of the Criminal Woman
Read it here.
The majority of the book consists of dry statistical tables and charts of the tests given to the subjects.
But in the latter third of the study, conclusions begin to be drawn.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 13, 2022 -
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Category: Science, Studies, Reports, White Papers, Investigations, 1910s, Women
The Climax Couch
Surely even in 1910 the name must have been suggestive.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 20, 2021 -
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Category: Furniture, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Advertising, 1910s
Mystery Illustration 103
What job necessitates this woman's outfit?The answer is here. (Scroll up a tad.)
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 05, 2021 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, 1900s, 1910s
The Toto Brothers
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 01, 2021 -
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Category: Entertainment, Human Marvels, 1910s
Mask for smokers
Back in 1919, Edward T. Duncan solved the problem of how to smoke and wear a mask at the same time.
Popular Science Monthly - May 1919
The only modern near-equivalent I can find is a mask that jokes about having a "smoke hole," without actually having one.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 20, 2021 -
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Category: Health, Smoking and Tobacco, 1910s
He’d Have To Get Out And Get Under (To Fix Up His Automobile)
"I have a daughter who's hungry for love. She likes to ride every day."
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 23, 2021 -
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Category: Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, 1910s, Cars, Love & Romance
The Boy Fancier
Published in 1912, the title of this book really hasn't aged well. Although even in 1912 I imagine the title could easily have been misconstrued.Looking up the word 'fancier' in the dictionary, I found that it means: "a connoisseur or enthusiast of something, especially someone who has a special interest in or breeds a particular animal." I hadn't known that the word had this association with animal breeding.
Nature offered this review of the book:
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 26, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Books, 1910s
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