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Image 1 — My Great-Great Grandparents had a few newspapers from around the WWI- early 1920's that were passed down to my dad. These New York newspapers were very, very fragile, they hadn't been opened in perhaps half a century.
Image 2 — My Great-Great Grandparents had a few newspapers from around the WWI- early 1920's that were passed down to my dad. These New York newspapers were very, very fragile, they hadn't been opened in perhaps half a century.
Image 3 — My Great-Great Grandparents had a few newspapers from around the WWI- early 1920's that were passed down to my dad. These New York newspapers were very, very fragile, they hadn't been opened in perhaps half a century.
Image 4 — My Great-Great Grandparents had a few newspapers from around the WWI- early 1920's that were passed down to my dad. These New York newspapers were very, very fragile, they hadn't been opened in perhaps half a century.
Image 5 — My Great-Great Grandparents had a few newspapers from around the WWI- early 1920's that were passed down to my dad. These New York newspapers were very, very fragile, they hadn't been opened in perhaps half a century.
▲ 87 r/vintageads

My Great-Great Grandparents had a few newspapers from around the WWI- early 1920's that were passed down to my dad. These New York newspapers were very, very fragile, they hadn't been opened in perhaps half a century.

u/MCofPort — 2 days ago
▲ 45 r/vintageads

Beautiful Murray and Lanman's Florida Water eau de cologne trade cards from the 19th Century.

u/MCofPort — 2 days ago
▲ 276 r/RandomVictorianStuff

Murray and Lanman's Florida Water has some of the most vibrantly beautiful advertising. These ads were all printed before 1900, but the unisex eau de cologne/aftershave has been in production to this day since 1808. These are all works of art.

u/MCofPort — 2 days ago
▲ 559 r/LeonardodaVinci+1 crossposts

It's incredible how paintings with very close origin stories can hold very different reputations centuries later. 20 to 30 thousand people visit the Mona Lisa each day, and it awaits its own gallery under construction. Madonna of the Yarnwinder at the Met was not too crowded.

u/MCofPort — 3 days ago
▲ 194 r/HumanForScale

I know largeness is usually in store for this sub, but this is Madonna of the Yarnwinder, a painting that may have been worked on by Leonardo Da Vinci. It is almost half the size of the Mona Lisa, yet just as stunning in detail.

u/MCofPort — 3 days ago
▲ 84 r/ephemera

Very, very fragile newspaper clippings from WWI and the early 1920's New York World. My Great-Great Grandparents must have kept them. I understand the War Ones, but still I wonder what importance some of the other ones held?

u/MCofPort — 4 days ago
▲ 93 r/ArtDeco

Photos from amazing and old postcard books of the SS Normandie, featuring many of the interior spaces on board. My dad had it in his closet but never had them out, probably from one of his grandparents.

u/MCofPort — 4 days ago
▲ 168 r/Oceanlinerporn

Jackpot! My dad found two near pristine postcard books from his grandparents of the SS Normandie.

u/MCofPort — 4 days ago
▲ 10 r/Butterflies

The first Black Swallowtail I've seen in my backyard. I'm used to Eastern Tiger or Red-Spotted Purples, so this is very nice surprise today. New York.

u/MCofPort — 5 days ago
▲ 176 r/classicfilms

"Oh my goddddd!" I've waited forever for The Out of Towners (1970) to be on TCM. Such an underrated Neil Simon comedy. Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are hilarious in this comedy about suburbanites barely surviving their first trip to New York City.

u/MCofPort — 6 days ago
▲ 65 r/VintageMenus

Port Richmond Tea Room, Staten Island, New York. This restaurant stood within or was very close to the site of the building where Aaron Burr, the shooter of Alexander Hamilton, died. It may have had ties to narcotics or as a speakeasy. (ca. 1920-1933)

u/MCofPort — 7 days ago
▲ 111 r/RandomVictorianStuff

The Grecian Bend– Fifth Avenue Style- Published by Currier & Ives in 1868.

Below is a Poem by W.H. Lingard, printed that same year about this brief fashion trend:

The ladies wanting something new,
As women are so prone to do,
Wear lofty heels upon the shoe
To give them a Grecian bend.
With foot so short, and heel so high,
They can’t stand plumb if they would try,
And so they think to catch the eye
By means of a Grecian bend.

u/MCofPort — 9 days ago
▲ 153 r/rollercoasters

I like how Bakunawa takes the ride's signature element and incorporates it into the creature's appearance as the tail twists.[SFGA] I think the designers have found inspiration from a nearby legendary cousin at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

u/MCofPort — 12 days ago
▲ 880 r/ArtHistory

What are the most photorealistic paintings you've seen that were painted before photography existed, captured a moment in time before photography, or before photos became commercially affordable to capture the moment?

u/MCofPort — 13 days ago