photographs Archive

0May 10, 2011
Little Jumping Joan

I always found this nursery rhyme a little unnerving… Little Jumping Joan Here am I, little jumping Joan, When nobody’s with me I’m always alone. Apparently photographer Jonathan Hobin thinks…
2October 26, 2009
Sign Of The Times: A Fishy Ephemera Hunt

I confess, I kill a lot of time just looking at the old snapshots and vintage photos at eBay. Sometimes I buy them, sometimes they inspire odd comments and random…
0October 9, 2009
Sign Of The Times: I Wish

I Wish by Maketea-notwar I wish for the whole truth every time we speak.
0October 7, 2009
Whatjamacallit Wednesday For Bibliophiles

Every book holds a Valentine for book lovers. Every day. Photo credits: baby, just say yes. by ~iPaintedtheskies.
0September 30, 2009
Whatjamacallit Wednesday, For Fans Of Blowdryers

A vintage (circa 1920′s-1930′s) photo of a model “using a then state of the art modernist hair dryer”; photo taken by illustrator Charles Gates Sheldon. Somehow, it sort of makes…
0September 11, 2009
Weekly Geeks: The Experience Of Reading & Reviewing Books

This week’s Weekly Geeks challenge is a response to author Shannon Hale’s post about evaluating and reviewing books; we were to respond to the questions Hale asked in one of…
2August 24, 2009
Sign Of The Times: 1943

You’ve heard of safety shoes, right? Well, here’s a safety bra straight out of the history books of home front WWII. Via The U.S. National Archives at Flickr, the original…
4August 13, 2009
(Really) Cheap Thrills Thursday

As I’ve said, I’ve long admired Laura’s Living Dolls series, but it wasn’t until this little vignette that I felt inspired to try a photo myself. (And it was perfect…
0August 7, 2009
Sign Of The Times: 1959

Vivian Cherry photograph of Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper, picketing against the Atomic Bomb, New York, 1959.
0August 6, 2009
Exercise Care When You Light-Up Near Trains

From Gillian Atkinson’s “Dealing with Wedding Day Nerves” photo set at The Ephemera Network.
0August 4, 2009
Signs Of The Times: 1968

Photograph by Steve Schapiro, New York, 1968. As an ephemera collector, I can’t help but wonder… What ever happened to that sign?
2July 26, 2009
Not Quite the Spa (You’re Soaking In It)

My friend Laura, aka That Grrl of Creative Fat Grrl, takes these cool photos of dolls & posts them at Flickr — this one somehow reminds me of those old…
0July 22, 2009
Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Georgia O’Keeffe Was Ahead Of Her Time

In this photo taken by John Loengard in 1967, Georgia O’Keeffe holds her favorite stone — that’s a pet rock, nearly a decade before Gary Dahl launched his pet rocks…