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Today's #WildSomerset is this wonderful schoolgirl's nature diary written in the 1930s. We think the entry about a bee falling over and getting covered in pollen could be a children's book in itself!
#BeesKnees
Taoist Priests, with traditional clothing of the Han Chinese and hair-bundle, in the Peking’s White Cloud Temple, 1920-30s. It’s also known as Beiyun Temple, a Taoist temple, first founded in the mid-8th century during the Tang dynasty, now titled “The First Temple under Heaven”.
@rockcock64 Original titles for one of my favorite Max Fleischer cartoons from the 30s...?
Here's a great read for #AmeliaEarhartDay! Get your hands on @KeithOB's #middlegrade edition of "Fly Girls" & learn how Amelia and 4 other female pilots fought with grit & determination to compete (successfully!) in the national #airraces of the '20s/'30s. @HMHCo #nonfiction
Portraits of Guan Zilan (1903 – 1986), also known as Violet Kwan, Chinese avant-garde painter, one of the first artists to introduce Fauvism to China, an art world favorite during the late 1920s and the 1930s.
America, Africa & Asia offering riches, accompanied by their curious pets. Detail from Frans Francken’s “Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels”, 1630s. @rijksmuseum
17. I am not sure who is oldest between Jian and Arzire. they both in their 30s. Youngest is again Valentin. 21 y.o
Get a full serving of fruit from our latest Vintage Edition—freshly picked by our curatorial team from the cornucopia of awesome art conceived of at the behest of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) in the 1930s. https://t.co/I5eNYGyao6
The Phantom Black Flash of Provincetown was a tall, ghoulish figure that stalked the dunes of Cape Cod in the late 1930s. He made insect-like buzzing sounds and could leap like a gazelle.
Designs and concepts by Russian architect, Yakov Chernikhov (1889-1951). Late 1920s/early 30s.
Stunning Sorrento from the Renaissance - The Grand Tour collection. Gorgeous quality produced on our 14,400 thread punch card operated loom dating back to the 1930s.
Contact sales@gainsborough.co.uk
#Gainsboroughweaving
Might tweak his colors but finished the new boy! Darius. Roughly ten years older than Marcus. Early 30s. Acts like a forever frat boy, but is deceptively smart and nasty when he wants to be.
See the shaded cleanup on my Patreon! https://t.co/QeFE3fGnoQ
There was a thread going around about people posting a random family factoid but I can’t find it... so here’s mine:
My great great grandmother’s brother (on my dad’s side) created The Village Barn, a country music night club in Greenwich Village, New York in the 1930s.
🎨 Serbian Milena Pavlović-Barilli (1909-1945), daughter of the composer Bruno Barilli, was a painter and poet.
She travelled across different European countries and died in New York.
🖼 Self portrait and photo 1930s.
#GeorgianGetUp
This robe à l’anglaise (c.1770) was made from silk damask dating to the 1730s. Reusing such fabric was a common C18th practice. The gown opens at the front to reveal a matching petticoat, at this time made to be seen. IMG: https://t.co/sKSC3KuUEl @metmuseum
Going to do a thread on the Black-owned bookstores for #independentbookstoreday.
The history of Black bookstores are closely connected to radical politics. Abolitionist David Ruggles was the first African American to start a bookstore, in lower Manhattan in the early 1830s. 1/
Feeling proud of this @inaturalist observation. The first in iNaturalist of the wasp Pteromalus puparum. It parasitised a yellow admiral Vanessa itea cocoon. The wasp was introduced to NZ to control white cabbage butterflies in the 1930s. cc @ReaderMeter https://t.co/tIm89PBESr