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Via laughingsquid: super awesome, a Composite Aerial Photo Map of San Francisco in 1938

Charlie Chaplin on an American tour with the Fred Karno Troupe 1912 (possibly in San Francisco) via chaplinfortheages

A glimpse of the first photographic self-portrait by Robert Cornelius from 1839. Via fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

In 1839, a year after the first photo containing a human being was made, photography pioneer Robert Cornelius made the first ever portrait of a human being.

On a sunny day in October, Robert Cornelius set up his camera in the back of his father’s gas lamp-importing business on Chestnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia. After removing the lens cap, he sprinted into the frame, where he sat for more than a minute before covering up the lens. The picture he produced that day was the first photographic self-portrait. It is also widely considered the first successful photographic portrait of a human being.

[…] the words written on the back of the self-portrait, in Cornelius’ own hand, said it all: “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.” 

(via oldenglishmiscellany)

tenderloingeographicsociety:

November 28, 1957, Father Boeddeker carves a turkey at the (old) St. Anthony Dining Room.

vintage-y SF Thanksgiving greetings via the SFPL

Great vintage float from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade circa 1929 via flavorwire & maudelynn

laphamsquarterly:

Gorgias, a fifth-century-BC Greek philosopher and rhetorician, urged orators to “destroy one’s adversaries’ seriousness with laughter, and their laughter with seriousness.” 

—Michael Philips-Anderson, from his LQ essay on political humor, “Working the Room.”

My latest post for laughingsquid features video of a startlingly Fast Striptease from 1942 by Georgia Sothern, aka The Human Dynamo. And some awesome vintage posters featuring her to boot. Have a great weekend!

ourpresidents:

The last meal President Richard Nixon ate at the White House.  On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced on evening television that he would resign from the Presidency. 

impeachment is a dish best served… on silver with cottage cheese. apparently. Nixon last meal as POTUS.

(via npr)

“Looking east from corner Ellis and Jones. San Francisco 1906”grinvi4

(via neighborhoodr-sanfrancisco)

My new laughingsquid post is about pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès who is featured in the film “Hugo”. The post includes six of his films, including the most famous (“A Trip To The Moon”) in all its restored glory with a fab new soundtrack by Air.

Games in a refugee camp at Kurukshetra, Punjab, India, 1947 by the great Henri Cartier-Bresson via holdthisphoto

HEADLINES OF THE NEW YORK “DAILY NEWS” Dated

December 26, 1977