Here we have a fabulous ad from the Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 1891, featuring Laloo Laloo – the “living boy and a half” who had “2 Bodies with 1 Head” and was, thankfully for Laloo (I guess), “alive.”
Ah, Kohl & Middleton’s…the great Chicago ‘curiosity’ museum…
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Additionally, just as a little note, Jack Goldie – a blackface [...]
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Stricken with the history bug again…
Posted in Classic Advertising, History, Things you never see on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
random things
Posted in Cinema and Film, History, Life in general, Major League Baseball, Webster Edgerly, television on April 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
As there’s little time right now for any ‘real’ updates (thanks to end of semester workloads), here’s a quickie on some things I’ve been doing.
1. Things are going fine with Jennifer. For anyone who’s wondering. Though there’s little time to do anything particularly unpredictable or new.
2. My research paper / first chapter of work on [...]
Joys of old newspapers
Posted in History, Webster Edgerly on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My Historiography paper topic was greeted with rapturous applause by my teacher. He actually has been doing research on censorship and such in the early days of film in Atlanta, and this is an area he has yet to dig into. So he’s quite excited that I’m going to be doing some work in the [...]
Any research suggestions?
Posted in History, Scholarship on January 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For my term paper in my Historiography class, I’m kicking around the idea of expanding a single footnote in an earlier paper into a full length paper in its own right.
This is, of course, a very dangerous thing to attempt, as footnotes are generally footnotes because they don’t require anything near 30 pages to deal [...]
Interesting News Reports
Posted in History on November 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »
A Greek astronomical calculator from 150 to 100 BCE has undergone computer reconstruction. It’s a beautiful little thing and, although this is certainly not news to someone who once wrote a paper on Greek astrology, it is evidence of just how accurately the Greeks had managed to work out the movements of the seven “wandering [...]
Oops.
Posted in History on November 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Some poor schmuck in Florida apparently spent $200,000 to mail their absentee ballot, by using an “Inverted Jenny” stamp (of which there are only as many as 100 in the world) on the envelope.
All I can say is, I certainly hope your candidates won. I’d feel pretty foolish regardless, but I’d feel even worse if [...]
A question on the public domain.
Posted in History on September 12, 2006 | 7 Comments »
(Right out of the gate I’d like to be sure to tell everyone not to forget to read my previous post from today. It apparently went over quite well as a bit of fun, and it would be a shame if people missed it simply because I blogged twice today…)
I’m trying to work out just exactly what [...]
