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. Country life- The Coronation, 1953

    (Source: houseofwindsor, via my-ear-trumpet)

  2. tuesday-johnson: ca. 1870-1900’s, [carte de visite advertising portrait of advertising girls for J.R. Williams and Son’s Hardware. Keys, cups, rings, chains, etc. hang from their dresses], Jenkins & Shawl via Jeffrey Kraus, Antique Photographics

    tuesday-johnson:

    ca. 1870-1900’s, [carte de visite advertising portrait of advertising girls for J.R. Williams and Son’s Hardware. Keys, cups, rings, chains, etc. hang from their dresses], Jenkins & Shawl

    via Jeffrey Kraus, Antique Photographics

    (via fuckyeahvictorians)

  3. Two Football Stars Pharmacy students at University of Michigan who made the All-American football team. Bill Cochran (left) and Johnny Malulbestch (right). Bulletin of Pharmacy: A live journal for druggists. October 1915.

    Two Football Stars

    Pharmacy students at University of Michigan who made the All-American football team. Bill Cochran (left) and Johnny Malulbestch (right).

    Bulletin of Pharmacy: A live journal for druggists. October 1915.

  4. ourpresidents: The American Red Cross was founded on this day — May 21, 1881. On the founding anniversary of the American Red Cross, here’s Kathleen Kennedy in her A.R.C. uniform from World War II. The photo was taken in London, circa 1943. Kathleen was the second daughter and fourth child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy. While in college, Kathleen Kennedy began volunteering for the Red Cross in New York in the summer of 1940.  After working for the Times-Herald newspaper, she rejoined the war effort by volunteering again for the Red Cross, this time in London. Read More -From the JFK Library Our gratitude goes out to all the volunteers and relief workers of the Red Cross in Oklahoma today, and across the world everyday.

    ourpresidents:

    The American Red Cross was founded on this day — May 21, 1881.

    On the founding anniversary of the American Red Cross, here’s Kathleen Kennedy in her A.R.C. uniform from World War II. The photo was taken in London, circa 1943.

    Kathleen was the second daughter and fourth child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy.

    While in college, Kathleen Kennedy began volunteering for the Red Cross in New York in the summer of 1940.  After working for the Times-Herald newspaper, she rejoined the war effort by volunteering again for the Red Cross, this time in London. Read More

    -From the JFK Library

    Our gratitude goes out to all the volunteers and relief workers of the Red Cross in Oklahoma today, and across the world everyday.

    (via greatestgeneration)

  5. coolchicksfromhistory:

    May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

    Photos from previous posts: Ho Miu Ling (Madame Wu Ting Fang), Indira Gandhi, Uzbek girl engineer, Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, Philippine schoolgirls, and Japanese mother and daughter.

    (via druelikesthings)

  6. jtotheizzoe:

    The Earliest Days of NASA

    Maria Popova, at Brain Pickings, happened upon a treasure trove of early NASA (and its airplane-only predecessor NACA) archive photos. They are really something. From biplanes to the Mercury capsule, pre-1950 aeronautics seemed to live by the motto of “If we build it, then we can go there.” That’s a sentiment we could use a bit more of.

    More here.

    (via itsfullofstars)

  7. collectivehistory: Recipient of the world’s first human heart transplant, Louis Washkansky, in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, three days after the surgery, December 6, 1967.  Unfortunately, he died eighteen days after the transplant of pneumonia due to his weakened immune system.  

    collectivehistory:

    Recipient of the world’s first human heart transplant, Louis Washkansky, in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, three days after the surgery, December 6, 1967. 

    Unfortunately, he died eighteen days after the transplant of pneumonia due to his weakened immune system.  

  8. Man and woman floating on their backs in the water Contemporary swimwear of the early 1900s. Silver gelatin plate photograph. US Library of Congress Digital Archives. Detroit Publishing Company collection.

    Man and woman floating on their backs in the water

    Contemporary swimwear of the early 1900s.

    Silver gelatin plate photograph.

    US Library of Congress Digital Archives. Detroit Publishing Company collection.

  9. dynamicafrica:

    Photos of South African women protesting in the streets against the Apartheid government.

    1980s.

    Read more about the critical roles women played during the anti-Apartheid struggle.

    (via diasporicroots)

  10. Panoramic view of Calhoun Beach, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lake Calhoun has been a popular swimming hole ever since swimming became popular, itself. There are multiple beaches along the lake that are still used to this day. 1915 gelatin silver plate panoramic photograph. US Library of Congress Digital Archives, Panoramic Collection.

    Panoramic view of Calhoun Beach, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    Lake Calhoun has been a popular swimming hole ever since swimming became popular, itself. There are multiple beaches along the lake that are still used to this day.

    1915 gelatin silver plate panoramic photograph.

    US Library of Congress Digital Archives, Panoramic Collection.

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