digitalpubliclibraryofamerica:

We are celebrating National Bookmobile Day, part of this year’s National Library Week, with some really cool images of libraries on the road (and, in one case, the beach)! 

Source images (1,2,3,4,5,6) from the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

coolchicksfromhistory:

National League of Women Voters group, 10/22/23.

Fancy ladies and lads in the US probably already know this (hopefully) but today’s election day! Don’t forget to go out and vote if you haven’t already.

“Costume day at St. James’ Presbyterian Church Sunday School, Bowen,” circa 1912. Image from State Library of Queensland via Flickr Commons.

“Group portrait of women in costume,” no date. Image from Miami University Libraries via Flickr Commons. All excellent costume ideas if you’re still trying to throw something together.

ancientfaces:

Sitting on the moon

This was a popular backdrop back in the day, and I still love it! Violet & Gabrielle Moerke sitting on the moon. [ Original: Violet & Gabrielle Moerke]

I know that I have not been keeping up my end of the bargain here. School and work got to be too time-consuming. Please accept this gorgeous paper moon as an apology, my Fancy Ladies.

halftheskymovement:

 Meet ten intriguing female revolutionaries that you didn’t learn about in history class! Take for instance Petra Herrera, who went by the name “Pedro Herrera” and fought alongside male soldiers during the Mexican Revolution. There was Lakshmi Sahgal, colloquially known as “Captain Lakshmi, who commanded an all-women regiment that aimed to overthrow British Raj in colonial India. 

Learn more via Whizzpast.

edwardianpromenade:

— 1893 World’s Fair, Columbian Exposition in Chicago

maudelynn:

Norma Talmadge c.1919 

maudelynn:

Boxing on an LA rooftop c.1933 

via http://www.distractify.netdna-cdn.com

fashionsfromhistory:

Lady Georgina Belhaven, The Honorable Mrs. Robert Borras Whiteside, & Lady Hemphill

Lafayette

1898

V&A