1. occupygezipics: Taksim Square 

    occupygezipics:

    Taksim Square 

  2. graffitidemierda: Alguna pared de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    graffitidemierda:

    Alguna pared de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  3. notcuddles: collective-history: Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows. A Knocker-up (sometimes known as a knocker-upper) was a profession in England and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution and at least as late as the 1920s, before alarm clocks were affordable or reliable. A knocker-up’s job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time. The knocker-up used a truncheon or short, heavy stick to knock on the clients’ doors or a long and light stick, often made of bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors. Some of them used pea-shooters. In return, the knocker-up would be paid a few pence a week. The knocker-up would not leave a client’s window until sure that the client had been awoken. There were large numbers of people carrying out the job, especially in larger industrial towns such as Manchester. Generally the job was carried out by elderly men and women but sometimes police constables supplemented their pay by performing the task during early morning patrols. Photograph from Philip Davies’ Lost London: 1870 - 1945. I am delighted by this.

    notcuddles:

    collective-history:

    Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows.

    A Knocker-up (sometimes known as a knocker-upper) was a profession in England and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution and at least as late as the 1920s, before alarm clocks were affordable or reliable. A knocker-up’s job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time.

    The knocker-up used a truncheon or short, heavy stick to knock on the clients’ doors or a long and light stick, often made of bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors. Some of them used pea-shooters. In return, the knocker-up would be paid a few pence a week. The knocker-up would not leave a client’s window until sure that the client had been awoken.

    There were large numbers of people carrying out the job, especially in larger industrial towns such as Manchester. Generally the job was carried out by elderly men and women but sometimes police constables supplemented their pay by performing the task during early morning patrols.

    Photograph from Philip Davies’ Lost London: 1870 - 1945.

    I am delighted by this.

    (Source: collectivehistory)

  4. thewomb: Frida Khalo

    thewomb:

    Frida Khalo

    (Source: thewomb)

  5. http://nkfc.overtornea.se/bildarkiv/album/index.html Nordkalottens kultur- och forskningscentrum har ett gediget bildarkiv med bla porträtt och annat. Min mor som har koll på den och den, om en säger, och givetvis bläddrat igenom arkivet meddelade att diverse släktingar fanns med. Om inte hon själv? Jag har ägnat en god timme åt detta härliga snokande, går ej att få nog av gammfolket.

    http://nkfc.overtornea.se/bildarkiv/album/index.html

    Nordkalottens kultur- och forskningscentrum har ett gediget bildarkiv med bla porträtt och annat. Min mor som har koll på den och den, om en säger, och givetvis bläddrat igenom arkivet meddelade att diverse släktingar fanns med. Om inte hon själv?

    Jag har ägnat en god timme åt detta härliga snokande, går ej att få nog av gammfolket.

  7. En av mina favoriter.

    En av mina favoriter.

  8. Jag blev så mätt på alla vackertumblrs i skevt motljus (inberäknat mitt eget rebloggande av dessa) att jag var tvungen att rensa och deleta. Det är november och allt jag kräver är lite kärvt vemod. 

  9. mydaguerreotypeboyfriend: Chancy Brown, Sergeant at Arms for the Liberian Senate. Daguerreotype, c, 1856-1860. (Library of Congress)

    mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

    Chancy Brown, Sergeant at Arms for the Liberian Senate. Daguerreotype, c, 1856-1860. (Library of Congress)

  14. (Source: jamesnord)