Electric Human Suit

drawingdetail:

‘Kurze und leichtfaßliche Anleitung zur Bienenzucht und Bienenpflege’ by A. Niemandsfreund; F. Huber, 1831. (via BibliOdyssey)

“Bees, it is said, are the most studied creatures on the planet after man.”

(via scientificillustration)

welovepaintings:

Vasily Surikov

Suvorov Crossing The Alps In 1799 

1899

staysandstories:

lord-kitschener:

omgthatartifact:

Spring-Loaded Dick in a Box

19th century

Christie’s

Your dashboard has now been greatly improved by the presence of the phrase “Spring-Loaded Dick in a Box.”

#God bless the Victorian era

(via katzenfraulein)

absurdonio:

Akali Sikh warrior wearing the distinctive Akali turban, photography by G Western, India, about 1860.

(Source: ghetto-kyote, via cherriot)

scientificillustration:

n110_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

The American shrew-mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii)

The quadrupeds of North America. v.1.
New York,V.G. Audubon,1851-54.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34896089

oldrags:

Walking dress for women, teenage girls, boys and young girls, 1874 Austria-Hungary (modern-day Budapest, Hungary), Budapesti Bazárra

(via fuckyeahvictorians)

ktothebeesknees:

Title, year, artist?

An Oriental Beauty — Jean-Francois Portaels (1818-1895)

(Source: kilosofcrack)

oldbookillustrations:

About the midst of this valley, I perceived the mouth of hell to be.

G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898.

(Source: archive.org)

missfolly:

Drawing on envelope, 1868

(via fuckyeahvictorians)

joyfulpantsofbuttlol:

gorey:

Hindley Street, Adelaide, from the corner of King William Street. Illustration by George French Angas, 1847.

I like it better this way.