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Velociraptor String Puppet | lauramathewsart on Instagram

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Newspaper ad, June 21, 1921

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King Khufu’s Peak

The top of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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A diagram of a baseball field from Spalding’s base ball guide, and official league book for 1885.

Full text available here.

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1926 Ten dollar gold coin. From Liveauctioneers.

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The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, May 24, 1925

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The Masses magazine, August 1913

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The Des Moines Register, Iowa, October 28, 1918

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Have you heard the story behind Norman Rockwell’s cover The Gossips? Some say the painting was Rockwell’s revenge on a woman in Arlington, Vermont, who’d spread an ugly rumor about him. He re-created the life of the rumor, beginning with an elderly woman whispering about Rockwell to a neighbor. From there the tale takes wing, speeding through town from one eager gossip to the next, until it comes back to Rockwell himself, who confronts the rumor’s originator in the bottom right.

Find out more of the story here.

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St. Louis newsboys. Missouri, 1910.

Photos by Lewis Wickes Hine. 

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Watch: SNL roasts Trump with “Racists for Trump” ad

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1910′s Wool jacket with embroidered floral design. From 1st Dibs.

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The Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia, March 5, 1933

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The Atchison Weekly Globe, Kansas, December 23, 1909