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Guests at the cats’ party. A apple pie and other nursery tales. 1870? Frontispiece detail. 

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A cartoon about cholera in the English magazine Fun, 1866, about 12 years after John Snow published his research showing a link between cholera and contaminated water. The skeleton is ‘King Cholera.’

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1897-1898. Collection Jules Beau. Photographie sportive. Cyclisme.

(vía Bibliothèque nationale de France)

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Animal Locomotion, Vol. 7 (1872-1885) - Eadweard Muybridge, photographer.

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Joan Vilatobà, “¿En qué lugar del cielo te encontraré?” (1903-1905) (por Museo del Romanticismo)

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In anticipation of Owl Awareness Day (August 4), we offer some slightly cartoony illustrations of these fascinating members of the genus Strix.

Images taken from Captain Thomas Brown’s “Illustrations of the American ornithology of Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte“ (1835).

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1909. British Army airship Baby.

Car-girder type; inflated fins. Two Buchet engines; one pusher-screw above the car.

Length (m): 25.6 Beam (m): 7.6 Volume (me): 29 Power (h.p.): 16 Speed (km): 29

Note the differences between the first and second version of the airship, in particular the lack of an upper fin on the envelope and the uncovered gondola.

(vía Imperial War Museum)

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1887. La moda elegante ilustrada. Disfraz de murciélago.

Había visto este grabado más veces, casi siempre por el nombre de “Victorian Batgirl” y por fin lo encontré en mi archivo de revistas. En España apareció en La moda elegante en 1887, en el número del 22 de enero. Como de costumbre, el suplemento con la hoja de patrones no aparece por ninguna parte, ni siquiera en la Biblioteca Nacional.

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I'm reblogging all my flagged posts because i'm that petty

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Some beautiful illustrations for cephalopod week from The Cephalopoda, atlas.

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In the 19th century, just after the daguerreotype’s introduction in the United States, there was a fashionable moment for portraits of women breastfeeding. via Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America/Flickr)

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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind, 1896 by Jean-Léon Gérôme

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Lady Macbeth Kenny Meadows 1850 Engraving 

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Photograph of Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn (1834-1926) studying specimens through a microscope ( with a border of maidenhair fern).

Photograph by John Dillwyn Llewelyn (British, Swansea, Wales 1810–1882 ) Taken from Emma Charlotte Dillwyn Llewelyn’s album (1853-56).

Image and text courtesy The Met

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Detail of a photograph of Confederate soldiers captured at Gettysburg, July 1863. Source: LOC.

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#MondayMotivationOwl

These two, too fancy, Victorian owls come from Album des bêtes à l'usage des gens d'esprit texte published in 1864. If these two can be this well put together on a Monday I guess we can too … maybe … if we have to.

Don’t worry about what time it is, just get out there and waltz through your day.

These images may seem familiar as we also presented a Caturday post featuring images from this book.

Last week, after reaching 8,000 followers, we said we would revive our “This One’s for You” series in recognition of some of our most active followers. Early last year we initiated the series as we were approaching 6.500 followers. Back then we highlighted @detroitlib, @hagleyvault, @hdslibrary, @macalesterarchives, @nextdoriskearns, @othmeralia, @starpointeprice, and @stuffaboutminneapolis, who are still active followers today. Thanks, you guys!  

But, today, in recognition of #MondayMotivationOwl … 

This One’s For You ~

… . @muspeccoll!

@muspeccoll is the Tumblr blog for Special Collections, Archives, and Rare Books at the University of Missouri Libraries. One of the great things about following other special collections on Tumblr is that we get to learn the scope and nature of collections at other institutions that we might not be able to otherwise. We have learned a great deal about the outstanding collections at Mizzou over the several years we’ve followed them. We encourage you to do the same. One of the things we appreciate most about them is that their approach is similar to ours … they don’t just post images from their collections with minimal context; they discuss their materials, offering insight into the historical and material importance of each item for research or simple enjoyment. Their posts are beautiful, engaging, fun, and sometimes just plain stunning.

We recognize @muspeccoll with this post because they initiated the hashtag #MondayMotivationOwl some time ago, and because they recognized our unnatural fixation with birds, they challenged us right away to participate with a post. While they and others have diminished their activities with the hashtag, we just keep finding more owls, and can’t seem to stop ourselves from posting them every week. Gee, thanks so much, @muspeccoll.

So, for all you do, @muspeccoll, these creepy, anthropomorphic, but very motivated owls are for you!!

And if that weren’t enough, here are some more Owls to motivate you!