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When LQ Tumbles, History Reels
vintageanchor: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Happy Birthday to one of our favorite writers: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.  Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832 in the little parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn.  His novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass are those rare books that you can read dozens of times and discover something new each time.

vintageanchor:

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
“I don’t much care where –”
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Happy Birthday to one of our favorite writers: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.  Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832 in the little parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn.  His novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass are those rare books that you can read dozens of times and discover something new each time.

January 27, 2012 174 notes
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Charles Dickens and his two daughters.  Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dickens, Walter Landor Dickens, and Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens were among the names of Dickens’ sons.

Charles Dickens and his two daughters. 

Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dickens, Walter Landor Dickens, and Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens were among the names of Dickens’ sons.

January 27, 2012 12 notes
It’s time to buy up all of these for the office.  flavorpill: Amazing 19th-century photos turned into geeky trading cards 

It’s time to buy up all of these for the office. 

flavorpill:

Amazing 19th-century photos turned into geeky trading cards 

January 27, 2012 83 notes
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We have now obtained the doubleeyed or twin pictures, or Stereograph, if we may coin a name. But the pictures are two, and we want to slide them into each other, so to speak, as in natural vision, that we may see them as one. How shall we make one picture out of two, the corresponding parts of which are separated by a distance of two or three inches?
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1859.
The NYPL has perfected the art of nineteenth-century 3D.
January 26, 2012 9 notes
Proven: history loves GIFs. Thanks NYPL! doree: nypl: The Library has just launched Stereogranimator, a site that lets users turn our historic collection of stereographs into animated images like the one above. Read all about it in the Times and then go play! It’s the latest way we’re using technology to bring our collections to the public, following our What’s on the Menu, Biblion iPad app and map warping projects. Caturday will never be the same … So cool! Also, per the Times: “Stereographs, produced by the millions between the 1850s and the 1930s, were a wildly popular form of entertainment, giving viewers a taste of the kind of richly rounded images now readily available on screens of all sizes.” So really, people have ALWAYS loved gifs!

Proven: history loves GIFs. Thanks NYPL!

doree:

nypl:

The Library has just launched Stereogranimator, a site that lets users turn our historic collection of stereographs into animated images like the one above. Read all about it in the Times and then go play! It’s the latest way we’re using technology to bring our collections to the public, following our What’s on the Menu, Biblion iPad app and map warping projects.

Caturday will never be the same …

So cool! Also, per the Times: “Stereographs, produced by the millions between the 1850s and the 1930s, were a wildly popular form of entertainment, giving viewers a taste of the kind of richly rounded images now readily available on screens of all sizes.” So really, people have ALWAYS loved gifs!

January 26, 2012 350 notes
reblogged from doree, originally posted at nypl
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters much.” —Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, c.1960

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters much.”

—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, c.1960

January 24, 2012 21 notes
“A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.” —Susan Sontag, 1977

“A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.”

—Susan Sontag, 1977

January 24, 2012 26 notes

John Tyler’s Grandsons Are Still Alive!

Shut UP, history! You are so crazy!

mentalflossr:

Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died.
January 24, 2012 406 notes
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“There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship. First, their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second, their service is superb. And then in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about woman and children first” —Winston Churchill Our latest Déjà Vu is on the publicity stunt that may have sunk the Costa Concordia

“There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship. First, their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second, their service is superb. And then in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about woman and children first” —Winston Churchill

Our latest Déjà Vu is on the publicity stunt that may have sunk the Costa Concordia

January 24, 2012 65 notes
That lamp knows a thing or two about foreshadowing. Heh. downtonabbeylamps: Season two, episode seven.  This lamp is definitely not ok with what is about to go down.

That lamp knows a thing or two about foreshadowing. Heh.

downtonabbeylamps:

Season two, episode seven.  This lamp is definitely not ok with what is about to go down.

January 24, 2012 19 notes
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