hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
Repository for Vintage Photographs That Tell a Story - Share Here...
- Thread starter SmoothSeas
- Start date
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
In 1903, Edward Llewellen (left) made history by breaking the world record and catching the biggest sea bass ever caught off the coast of Catalina Island:
Flarbalard
Senior Member
Not familiar with this person, I am familiar with a similar case, JoJo the Dog Boy from around the turn of the 20th century.
This is Stephan Bibrowski, otherwise known as Lionel the Lion-faced Man. Stephan had a condition known as hypertrichosis that caused hair to grow up to eight inches long all over his body
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
this guy travelled with the Barnum Bailey circus, but he spoke 5 languages... so a very inteligent man by the sounds of it
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
This picture, from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, shows a number of performers making a human torch:
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
during World War II, the US military handed out a guide for American soldiers serving in Britain. This is a small excerpt of what it said:
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
In 1918, a suffragette offered the following advice “to young ladies” on marriage:
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
You're probably familiar with the most terrifying looking fish in the ocean, the anglerfish...
Well, this is how big the males of the species actually are:
Flarbalard
Senior Member
That's very interesting, but still wasn't familiar with this person. JoJo the dog came into my world from a 1910 book on anthropology I bought at the Goodwill when I was 11 or 12. I believe he was a side show performer, and was in the past tense by the time the book I had was in print.
I'll leave myself a note and look him up, but won't be today. Thanks.
Pappy
Living the Dream
Ah shucks ma’am. Thank you.swoon !
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
This is what the world's first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:
..and there's me complaining about doing the stairs with my hand held cordless Shark
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
Flarbalard
Senior Member
Are we speaking of the left hand part of the image or the right hand side? What really draws my attention is why would anyone hang pictures in the corner?This is what the world's first domestic vacuum cleaner looked like in 1906:
..and there's me complaining about doing the stairs with my hand held cordless Shark
One other thing is on my mind...betcha the machine still works...
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
its the machine in the middle...
In houses with large room pictures were often hung in the corners... because wallpapers were very expensive, and so they wanted to avoid any damage to them when hanging larger or heavier frames
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
There's a golf course right next to the Great Pyramid of Giza:
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
This is what the back of the Price Is Right wheel looks like:
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
this is how hot asphalt can get
Geronimo and his warriors in the Sierra Madres of Mexico. This photograph was taken in 1886, before Geronimo surrendered to General Crook on March 27, and before he escaped again on March 30.
Public Domain/ New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection, American History 1880s, C.S. Fly
General Crook and Geronimo deliberate over the Chiricahua Apache's terms of surrender. Geronimo is third from the left wearing a bandana, and Crook is second from the right. They are among US soldiers, Chiricahua warriors, and Apache scouts.
Public Domain/ Library of Congress, C.S. Fly 1886