Chris Woodyardさんのイラストまとめ

For #ForteanFriday in advance of setting the clocks back this weekend, "Tick-Tock - A Medium Clock." A mediumistic clock communicated accurate information by ticks and tocks.
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#DíadeLosAngelitos A white-draped Mexican street-car hearse used for children, Mexico City, 1912
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

#Halloweencostume inspiration for Foodies.
Lady-fingers. Pumpkin. Scallion. Potato.
All V&A collection

Executed #OTD in 1915, nurse Edith Cavell, who cared for German and Allied soldiers alike. Her murder inspired many grim images.
The Red Cross nurse holding German and British flags is said to be an image of Cavell.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "Mary Stuart" mourning bonnets with ruche, c. 1897 and c. 1911. The illustration shows nun's veiling; the extant example's veil is crape.

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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead "Lost," W.J. Perry, engraved by C.M. Jenkin, 1871-72.

#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead #LaborDayWeekend The Consumptive Seamstress
from "How to Keep Well," by Dr. Evans, 1917
And The Wretched Sewing Girl, c. 1860

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead What the Cemetery Superintendent Sees: 1896: Flower Thieves, Grave Charms, Grief Arithmetically Measured, Repentance and Black Stockings, Is the Grave Secure?
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#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead Hearse feathers. Variations among hearse plumes.
1867 funeral feather tray or hearse plumes
1870 hearse plume
Belgian mourning plume.
Horsehair hearse plume
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For #ForteanFriday, fearing the Reaper: A fight to the death--with Death. Plus other visits from the hooded King of Terrors.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #Death #GrimReaper