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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Leeches! Leeches!! Leeches!!! A small collection of vintage advertisements for medical leeches
Business card for cuppers and leechers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 19th century. Via Life As A Human.
Leeches! Leeches!! Leeches!!! An excitable ad for fresh leeches from the Wanganui Dispensary. Wanganui Herald, 11 September 1867, pg 3. Via New Zealand National Library’s Papers Past.
A Map of a Woman’s Heart, 1833-1842
A lot of pictures of Pablo Picasso without his shirt on
Read on for (many) more pictures of a shirtless Picasso. Warning: it is an image heavy post, because Picasso apparently really, really liked to whip his shirt off. Perhaps he felt that extra material encumbered his artistic genius. Or maybe the legendary playboy just liked to show off the goods. Continue reading
Three ridiculously interesting photographs from the history of art
Models for Grant Woods’ ‘American Gothic’ (1930) posed with painting. Via Twenty Two Words.
Daguerreotype of Robert Cornelius, likely the first photographic self-portrait ever taken, c 1839. Via American Library of Congress.
These three intriguing photographs have no real relationship with one another, except that each image reveals a little bit of the hidden history of art. Read on for more about these remarkable images. Continue reading
