Beautiful Century
Pretty pictures from the 1850s to the 1910s.
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Photo reblogged from Anything Goes - Celebrating the 20s
French postcard, WWI era.
This wouldn’t look out of place at certain sporting events today…if the supporters were a particularly stylish lot.
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Post reblogged from Days Gone By
American actress Billie Burke (famous to modern audiences as Glinda the good witch in the 1939 MGM Wizard of Oz) wearing her United States Food Administration uniform during the First World War
United States Food Administration uniform from the American Women in the First World War collection.
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Photo reblogged from Hold This Photo
Ida Rubinstein pulls nurse duty, 1914 (We all know what this inspired.)
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Photo reblogged from le mal du siècle
Headwear of the First World War, Musee de L’Armee (by drakegoodman)
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Illustração Portugueza, No. 197, November 29 1909 - 7 on Flickr.
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Portuguese king D. Manuel visits the military academy of Toledo, Spain. -
Photo reblogged from Days Gone By
Kittyinva: The Social Hygiene Division of the U.S. Army gave thousands of young men their first sex-ed classes! This was an era where the chivalric tradition was still held up as the ideal for young men, and they were reminded they did not want to bring home a disease to their wife or future wife. They were taught about condoms and urged to use them. They were also told that obsessing about wine, women and song was a sign of a weak mind, and they should be honorable and mindful of their duty - both to the army and their own self-respect. Pretty amazing, really. High ideals, mixed with Christian morality and the hard-headed realization that young men will be interested in sex. So they warned them not to do it, told them what could happen, and gave them means to prevent venereal disease. Despite all the moralising, pretty forward-thinking, IMO.
(Source: pushthemovement)
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Collier’s Magazine Cover, The War In China, ca. 19th ct on Flickr.
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Ilustração Portugueza, No. 563, December 4 1916 - 19 on Flickr.
Via T of Dias que Voam blog.
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Portuguese publishing house O Século organizes a subscription of clothes, to be sent to Portuguese soldiers fighting in the war. The packages are exibited in the salon of magazine Ilustração Portugueza, and visited by members of the government, including the Portuguese president, Bernardino Soares (photos by Benoliel). -
Photo reblogged from Circus of Shadows
