Cabbage - [kab-ij] Chiefly British 1. a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. 2. slang - verb. To steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.

Cove - (kəʊv) Brit, Austral 1. old-fashioned , slang - a fellow; chap.

Cabbaging Cove: A scoundrel keen on pilfering [from the annals of not-so-distant history]!

About the Cabbaging Cove

  1. Riding the Goat Two children, riding a goat in a village park. Detroit Publishing Co. photograph, 1904.

    Riding the Goat

    Two children, riding a goat in a village park.

    Detroit Publishing Co. photograph, 1904.

  2. tuesday-johnson: ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman holding his daughter], Lewis Babbit via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

    tuesday-johnson:

    ca. 1855, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman holding his daughter], Lewis Babbit

    via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

  3. The Three Jolly Kittens

    Before and after the feast…at least it looks like the party was good! :D

    Hand-colored lithographs. Currier & Ives, 1871.

    United States Library of Congress Digital Archives. Popular Graphic Arts collection.

  4. oldbookillustrations: Be off! be off! for the iron wolf is coming. E. W. Mitchell, from Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales, selected, edited and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain, London, 1894. (Source: archive.org)

    oldbookillustrations:

    Be off! be off! for the iron wolf is coming.

    E. W. Mitchell, from Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales, selected, edited and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain, London, 1894.

    (Source: archive.org)

  5. cabbagingcove: Prophylactic toothbrushes for natural teeth! Dental plate brushes for artificial teeth, if you failed to use the first! Serving all comers! In 1886, the first mass-produced toothbrushes had only been on the market for one year (as they began production in 1885), and were still bone and boar-bristle brushes made of animal fiber. Since boar bristles tended to fall out and there was generally one brush per family, the everyday use of toothbrushes wasn’t a common part of the morning toilette. However, with synthetic fibers developed in 1938 and soldiers required to brush twice daily in in WWII, the habit of brushing ones teeth before going to bed and after waking up came home to stay. By the time the Second World War was over, brushing the teeth from childhood onwards was seen as an essential and basic aspect of dental hygiene. Prospectus of the Canfield Competitive Art Needle-Work Exhibit. 1886.

    cabbagingcove:

    Prophylactic toothbrushes for natural teeth! Dental plate brushes for artificial teeth, if you failed to use the first! Serving all comers!

    In 1886, the first mass-produced toothbrushes had only been on the market for one year (as they began production in 1885), and were still bone and boar-bristle brushes made of animal fiber. Since boar bristles tended to fall out and there was generally one brush per family, the everyday use of toothbrushes wasn’t a common part of the morning toilette. However, with synthetic fibers developed in 1938 and soldiers required to brush twice daily in in WWII, the habit of brushing ones teeth before going to bed and after waking up came home to stay. By the time the Second World War was over, brushing the teeth from childhood onwards was seen as an essential and basic aspect of dental hygiene.

    Prospectus of the Canfield Competitive Art Needle-Work Exhibit. 1886.

  6. questionableadvice: ~ The English Review, May 1915

    questionableadvice:

    ~ The English Review, May 1915

    (via my-ear-trumpet)

  7. fieldmuseumphotoarchives: Fossil Friday! Giant ground sloths. © The Field Museum, CSGEO75817. Mounted skeletons of Fossil South American Ground Sloth (Scelidodon), Megatherium gallordi composite. Ernest R. Graham Hall (Hall 38). Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition to Bolivia, 1927. Height of erect animal, eight feet; length of burrowing animal, nine feet. 8x10 acetate negative 1932 

    fieldmuseumphotoarchives:

    Fossil Friday! Giant ground sloths.

    © The Field Museum, CSGEO75817.


    Mounted skeletons of Fossil South American Ground Sloth (Scelidodon), Megatherium gallordi composite. Ernest R. Graham Hall (Hall 38). Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition to Bolivia, 1927. Height of erect animal, eight feet; length of burrowing animal, nine feet.

    8x10 acetate negative

    1932 

  8. collectivehistory: Sinclair Dinosaurs on the Hudson being transported by barge to the New York World’s fair ca. 1964 (via Imgur) 

    collectivehistory:

    Sinclair Dinosaurs on the Hudson being transported by barge to the New York World’s fair ca. 1964 (via Imgur) 

  9. Annie Oakley with the gun Buffalo Bill gave her In this photograph, she was 62 years old. The same year, she set a record, by hitting 100 clay targets from 15m. Shortly after this photo was taken, she was in a serious car wreck that destroyed one of her legs. Eighteen months after that wreck, though, she was again setting shooting records. Annie Oakley died in 1925, after a bout of pernicious anemia. She was 66 years old, and set her last record just 5 months before her death. United States Library of Congress Digital Archives. “Miscellaneous items in high demand” collection. Photograph by New York Telegraph photographer, 1922.

    Annie Oakley with the gun Buffalo Bill gave her

    In this photograph, she was 62 years old. The same year, she set a record, by hitting 100 clay targets from 15m. Shortly after this photo was taken, she was in a serious car wreck that destroyed one of her legs. Eighteen months after that wreck, though, she was again setting shooting records.

    Annie Oakley died in 1925, after a bout of pernicious anemia. She was 66 years old, and set her last record just 5 months before her death.

    United States Library of Congress Digital Archives. “Miscellaneous items in high demand” collection. Photograph by New York Telegraph photographer, 1922.

  10. odditiesoflife:

    Vintage Animal Photographer Harry Whittier Frees

    Harry Whittier Frees (1879–1953) was an American photographer who created novelty postcards and children’s books based on his photographs of animals. He dressed the animals and posed them in human situations with props, often with captions. These were famously popular as postcards and posters at the turn of the century. The books and postcards are both highly collectible today.

    These comical images are from his 1915 book, The Little Folks of Animal Land. He created images with animals, mostly kittens recreating everyday life scenarios.  The images were titled:

    • “Lily Bufkins Cuts a Wisdom Tooth”
    • “Barker was Busy in the Kitchen”
    • “Mrs. Bufkins Takes Barker’s Place”
    • “Purra Plays a Joke on Prowler”
    • “Mrs. Bufkins had a Busy Day”
    • “Rosie was a patient model”
    • “Prowler and Purra Try the Jam”

    Unlike many of Frees contemporaries, he used live animals and not taxidermy. This allows guilt-free enjoyment of the pictures without the “yuck” factor of knowing that you are looking at something dead.

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