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Kristy Baxter

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Vintage Internet Time Traveler Newspapers, magazines, museums, and ephemera Also cats & whimsy Pennsylvania girl Other Account: Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · Aug 21

My default vibe

Bill Brandt
undated
Cornell University Collection

b&w photo. a girl in a plaid dress leans back in a chair, legs crossed and feet resting on another chair. By her legs is a table with a glass on it. The girl is holding a cigarette and has a general air of ennui.

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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 4h

Double, double,
desiccated vegetables and no trouble

Wellcome Collection
between 1890 and 1899

The Portable Food Co's consolidated soups and dessicated vegetables : "no trouble" : Burn, fire! Cauldron bubble! Splendid soup, NO TROUBLE.
Portable Food Company.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
Advertisement image shows three women around a cauldron labeled "no trouble;" they are wearing aprons and caps and each carries a giant spoon. For some reason the spoons are labeled 1, 2, and 6.

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 1d

"And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!"

Lithograph shows a young, dark-haired man siting at a desk with candle burning, quill in hand. A ghostly young woman with long strawberry blond hair is behind him on the left, but he's looking over his other shoulder, where a giant raven dives toward him

Text: Mr. Henry Ludlowe in The raven: the love story of Edgar Allan Poe by George Hazelton

1908

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 2d

These are amazing!

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 2d

Naptime

R. Leinweber
1912
NYPL

drawing of a woman in a light gown with bell sleeves sitting on a rock on a cliffside, a large dragon resting its head on her lap

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 2d

I use the sleeves as wings to propel my little posts to ever greater height.

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 2d

1906
NYPL

advertising poster: camp buena vista
an ideal vacation resort for young men

illustration of two young men in a canoe on a lake, with cabins on the shoreline beyond

outing department
boston young men's christian association
open june 30 - sept 6
season of 1906
apply for an illustrated prospectus

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 2d

The subject is unnamed, but you're right, I see a resemblance

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 2d

How I write my little posts

1895-1917
NYPL
Ad for The Pittsburgh Visible-Writing Machine
A woman in a scarlet dress with puffy sleeves types on a typewriter, above which is written, "Simplicity is superiority!"
Manufactured by Pittsburg Writing Machine

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Vintage Halloween card:
‘A Happy Halloween’
A witch in a white dress with a large pumpkin head on a broomstick, gold stars, full moon, night sky with clouds.

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 3d

The dragon is like

Tweet from film twt gains, @filmgains

call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 3d

That dragon is having a moment

1893
NYPL

book cover, front and back: The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundeville Kt. Edited & Illustrated by Arthur Layard
Front cover has title and a woman in a renaissance-style gown reading a large book
back cover has a large red dragon with thorny black hair and pearls, I think, looking either befuddled or offended

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight's feature presentation
www.imdb.com/title/tt2303...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 5d

🎃 #31daysofhalloween #Gothtober

Vintage Halloween card ‘May LUCK
AND LOVE
MEET you on
ALL HALLOWE’EN’
Witch with broom in pumpkin hot air balloon flying over bats flying over a silhouette of a town, a black cat rides on top of the pumpkin.

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 5d

This is amazing, thank you, I'll be getting so much use out of this

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 5d

LOOK AT THAT FACE

LOOK AT IT

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 5d

Not the flannel shirt! I'd be sad too.

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 22d

"When the spinning-room was here
Came Three Damsels, clothed in white,
With their spindles every night;
One and Two and three fair Maidens,
Spinning to a pulsing cadence,
Singing songs of Elfin-Mere..."

The Music Master, illustration for The Maids of Elfin-Mere
(see alt text)

image is a print of three young women in long white gowns singing for a young man who is turning his face away

Dante Gabriel Rossetti/William Allingham

from source:
"Rossetti’s first published illustration was made for this volume to accompany the poem The Maids of Elfin-mere. Characteristically, the image focuses on a vision of three maidens who appear nightly to spin and chant, entrancing a pastor’s son who, “listening to their gentle singing, felt his heart go from him clinging, round these maids of Elfen-Mere.” Allingham, who wrote the related ballad, was an Irish poet known for fairy subjects. The stiff drapery and repeated poses in the image derive from late Gothic art, while the girls resemble Rossetti’s beloved Elizabeth Siddal. Edward Burne-Jones, a close friend of Rossetti's, called the related design 'the most beautiful drawing for an illustration I have ever seen.'"
London
1855
The Met

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 6d

If you started already, I will ring the shame bell in your general direction

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 6d

I am watching The Craft, you may all now begin spooky season

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 6d

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Vintage Halloween postcard with witch, broom and black cat, devils and skeletons, pumpkins in background, cauldron over fire.

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 6d

The autumn skies are flush with gold,
And fair and bright the rivers run:
These are but streams of winter cold,
And painted mists that quench the sun.
Thomas Hook

Metropolitan Magazine
Oct 1905

Illustration of a woman leaning over a candle and looking into a mirror. She's holding something in her hand. An apple? Grenade? We might never know
Below is a poem:
The autumn
skies are flush
with gold,
And fair and
bright the
rivers run:
These are but streams
winter cold,
And painted mists that
quench the sun.
Thomas Hook

Metropolitan Magazine
Oct 1905

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 6d

Type -ai at the end of your search query, it should take the AI results out.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7d

I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

Photo-realistic drawing of a cat snoozing on a cane-seated chair

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 7d

Your fiche niche, one might say.

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 7d

Really into this book but the ghost looking over my shoulder is a slow reader so I have to wait for him to be done before I can turn the page

WPA
1936-1940
Library of Congress

reading promotion poster. Poster for the WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy reading a book, surrounded by a bat, ghost, witch, and other images of Halloween.
Text: October's Bright Blue Weather: A good time to read!