#August 1

[shisasan]

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟽 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID:August 1. I tighten the reins. END ID]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Maxine Brown, who was said to have the largest number of dolls in the city, takes them all for a ride through the park, August 1, 1922. Miss Brown had more than 200 dolls in her collection, and each received special attention in the matter of dress.

Photo: Getty Images via Fine Art America

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Mina to Lucy, as soon as Mr. Swales walks away

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Azure Tit (Cyanistes cyanus)

(Photo by Pavel Parkhaev)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Central Asia

Size (Weight/Length)- 15 g; 14 cm

Diet- Insects; Seeds; Bird eggs

Cool Facts- The azure tit is one of the best names for one of the cutest birds. The azure tit pairs up with their mate through a complicated mating dance involving shrill twittering and wing dancing. Mama tits are vicious little ladies. Laying up to ten eggs in a single clutch, she will protect the eggs with her life. No matter the threat, be it squirrel, bird, or human, the azure tit will hiss and bite anything that disturbs her nest. In comparison, dad protects the rest of the territory. He will drive off any other azure tits he spots and catches the food his mate needs. The monogamous pair mate for life and are unlikely to mate again once their significant other passes on.

Rating- 12/10 (Now, now… let’s be mature.)

[thethirdromana]

There are STORMS and FOG and a SHIP, time to post Ivan Aivazovsky paintings!

Fog over the Sea (A Storm at Sea), 1884

Gathering Storm, 1899

Storm on the sea at night, 1849

Ship in a storm, 1895

Strong Wind, 1856

[happybirthday-unusannus]

Happy 3rd Birthday to

“Mark Teaches Ethan How to Play the Trumpet”

[todaysdocument]

Men from Galesburg, Illinois drafted during World War I, on August 1, 1918. 

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs

Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs

File Unit: Colored Troops

Image description: 21 Black men posing for a photo. Most are wearing suits; some are holding hats. The photo is captioned “Galesburg Ill Sammies / Aug 1 ‘18 / #2”. 

[dailykafka]

— August 1, 1917 / Franz Kafka diaries

[ifwebefriends]

“I wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.”

[typelikeagirl]

[chroniclesofnadia111]

Wake up, wake up it’s the 1st of tha month ✨

Happy Emancipation Day Saint Lucia 🇱🇨🌴✊🏾

💙💛🖤🤍

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 31, 1 août 1897, Paris. Robe en crêpe de Chine. Robe en taffetas changeant avec blouse de dentelle. Modèles de chez Mmes Coussinet-Piret, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Description de la gravure coloriée:

Robe en crêpe de Chine jaune.

Jupe entièrement plissée, ornée d'un entre-deux de dentelle blanche, disposé en dents pointues; le corsage-blouse, plissé comme la jupe, est à moitié recouvert d'un fichu en gaze de soie blanche, drapé sur le buste, de telle sorte que le côté de droite, retenu par un nœud, croise sur le côté gauche; un volant de dentelle blanche, double sur chaque épaule, borde le fichu et retombe à gauche en formant une spirale, et dépasse la ceinture plissée,faite en satin blanc; col pareil à la ceinture, surmonté d'une ruche de dentelle; les manches étroites, plissées horizontalement, du haut en bas, sont terminées par un volant de dentelle, qui retombe sur la main.

Yellow crepe de chine dress.

Entirely pleated skirt, adorned with an insertion of white lace, arranged in pointed teeth; the bodice-blouse, pleated like the skirt, is half covered with a fichu in white silk gauze, draped over the bust, so that the right side, held in place by a knot, crosses over the left side; a flounce of white lace, double on each shoulder, borders the fichu and falls to the left in a spiral, and goes beyond the pleated belt, made of white satin; collar similar to the belt, surmounted by a ruffle of lace; the narrow sleeves, pleated horizontally from top to bottom, are finished with a flounce of lace, which falls over the hand.

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Robe en taffetas changeant, lavande.

Jupe sans garniture; corsage-blouse en dentelle crème, posé sur un corsage plat, en taffetas violet, uni, retenu par une ceinture en galon d'argent, brodé d'améthystes; à la ceinture se rattachent des basques courtes, en taffetas violet uni, bordées d'une étroite ruche en gaze de soie violette; mêmes ruches sur les contours d'une veste de même taffetas que la jupe, arrondie derrière à l'encolure, découpée en pointe sur le bord inférieur du dos; les revers de cette veste sont recouverts de dentelle crème et de ruches de gaze violette.

Chapeau en paille violette, garni de pavots blancs, et de plumes-couteaux noires.

Cette toilette convient pour un demi-deuil, point très sévère.

Changing taffeta dress, lavender.

Skirt without trim; bodice-blouse in cream lace, placed on a flat bodice, in purple taffeta, plain, held by a belt in silver lace, embroidered with amethysts; at the waist are attached short basques, in plain purple taffeta, edged with a narrow frill in purple silk gauze; same ruffles on the contours of a jacket of the same taffetas as the skirt, rounded behind at the neckline, cut into a point on the lower edge of the back; the lapels of this jacket are covered with cream lace and purple gauze ruffles.

Violet straw hat, trimmed with white poppies, and black feather-knives.

This dress is suitable for half-mourning, a very severe point.Mod

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Jonathan: Good-bye, all! Mina!

Mina:  I wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.

Us:

[ashleybenlove]

The pure EXHAUSTION in the Captain's voice is so very apparent.

[we-the-dreamers]

"I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."

A Little Princess (1905) - by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Harlem Riot of 1943

On August 1, 1943, a White patrol officer arrested a Black woman in Harlem for disturbing the peace. A Black soldier named Robert Bandy protested. The cop said that Bandy hit him, then tried to flee. Bandy said the cop had thrown his nightstick at him and, when he hesitated to return it, shot him. He received a superficial wound in his shoulder.

Pfc. Robert Bandy, a military policeman, in the prison ward of Sydenham Hospital, where he was taken after he was shot in the shoulder by Officer James Collins.

Rumor spread that Bandy had been killed, and the crowd outside the police station became violent. The riot lasted for two days and involved vandalism, looting, and the destruction of White-owned businesses in Harlem.

Smoke billows from an unoccupied automobile that was set on fire during the morning of August 2, 1943, after a night of destruction and looting.

Mayor LaGuardia met with Black leaders and went with them to Harlem, trying to scotch the rumor. He also made radio appeals to Harlem residents, urging them to return home.

Order was eventually restored after the mayor brought in thousands of police and civilian volunteers, but the damage was estimated at between $250,000 and $5 million ($4.4 million to $88 million in today's dollars). Six people died and over 700 were injured.

Policemen and volunteers recruited from all over the city wait outside the 123rd St. station house on August 2 for orders to help restore peace.

The riot died down by the night of August 2. It took the Department of Sanitation three days to clean up the neighborhood. LaGuardia had food delivered to Harlem residents and the Red Cross added some more. Because this was wartime, food was rationed and scarce.

August 2 was also James Baldwin's 19th birthday and the day of his father's funeral. "It seemed to me," Baldwin later wrote, "that God himself had devised, to mark my father's end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas."

All photos from the Associated Press; bottom photo by Harry Harris.