Historical Inspiration
I am constantly trolling through old newspapers looking for fashion history sources. I come across some wild stuff. This is the page for that.
Newspapers
Source: Regional circulation newspapers from Colorado and New Mexico, submissions from anonymous historians
They put their best artist and their worst headline writer together for this one.
searches in newspapers 1800-1920 with a variety of search terms, i can promise absolutely none of these things was what I was looking for
“Draw the moment when the old man is choking. That’s so good! Perfect, people really wanna see this content.”
There’s like a base level of corset knowledge required to think this joke is funny and im not explaining it.
From an advertisement in 1902, newspaper was saved as “THD” I can’t remember which source that is. The historians told me this is a “carbine” not a rifle. I put it on a sticker that said “I love mean women” and people loved it.
why is his head so small lol
this is a good joke in the 1830s.
I just thought this was pretty
they drew this and printed it in the newspaper.
no one in history has ever said this.
Choose your fighter
just a drawing of beating an old man. she has a WEAPON
submitted by a historian. He found this comic in the collection of the museum in Madrid, Spain. He was like, “Angela, you need to see this.” He was right.
I cannot decide which character is the funniest, probably the servant? He is trying so hard.
From an 1858 issue of the Denver Daily Gazette. In the West, in places like Colorado, beautiful dress ads were next to ads from Remington and Colt. I just want to look at beautiful Victorian corsets and ladies gowns I don’t want to wade through articles about breech loading and revolving rifles? Everytime I find something like this I have to post on FB and ask the gun nerds what I’m looking at. They told me this gun is a revolver. I put it on one of my stickers. We’ll see if the girls like it as much as the carbine sticker.
like three different historians told me this is a normal way to shoot a gun in 1890.
this is so dramatic
i just really like the eagle’s outfit
