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]!

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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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 

  4. 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) 

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  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. 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.

  9. “The Swimming Hole.”

    Group of boys - 14 to 16 years - just returned from working in tobacco at Southwick, Mass., on Galpin’s farm.

    US Library of Congress Digital Archives, National Child Labor Committee Collection.

  10. Seven Ladies at the Potomac Tidal Basin Beach, 1920 “Bare legs and scanty one piece bathing suits were very much in evidence at the opening of Washingtons municipal bathing beach today. Officials have agreed to disregard as precedents the prohibitory orders issued at Coney Island and Atlantic City.” US Library of Congress Digital Archives. National Photo Company Collection.

    Seven Ladies at the Potomac Tidal Basin Beach, 1920

    “Bare legs and scanty one piece bathing suits were very much in evidence at the opening of Washingtons municipal bathing beach today. Officials have agreed to disregard as precedents the prohibitory orders issued at Coney Island and Atlantic City.”


    US Library of Congress Digital Archives. National Photo Company Collection.

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