Cigarette manufacturers in the late 1880’s began inserting stiffening cards into their cigarette packs to strengthen the paper container. It wasn’t long before they put artwork, famous people, pretty girls, and trivia onto those cards grouped into collectible series. Production of these cards continued into the 1940s and are highly valuable today. The most expensive … Read more
How the movie industry became the giant that it is today is all thanks to the amazing people (back in the 1880s) who experimented with photos, stitching them together to produce the illusion of a motion picture. Whether you’re a cineaste or just a regular movie buff, these nine of the earliest films ever made … Read more
This 16th century book is more than meets the eye. Housed at the National Library of Sweden, this small old book is a marvelous example of sixfold dos-à-dos binding, in which six books are conjoined into a single publication, which you can also read individually with the help of six perfectly placed clasps. Let’s take … Read more
Ahh, the things we do for beauty, the things we wear for fashion. But it’s not just today that people are willing to bear the extra pain to be fashionable and trendy and beautiful. In 1908, Doctor O’Followell’s Le Corset (The Corset) explored and showcased through x-rays, the nasty health consequences corsets caused on women’s … Read more
This is such a wonderful story!
This man was asked how did he survive back in the days…he responds with this priceless response and how he’d want those days back again.