The Monday Cartoon: Paradoxical (Punch Magazine)
The Friday Cartoon: Acting (JB, Punch Magazine)
The Monday Cartoon: Cab Tout (Phil May 1898)
The Friday Cartoon: Scene – A Booth in the Wild West (Punch Magazine)
The Monday Cartoon: New Year’s Gift for “Tommy” (Punch, January 1st, 1898)
The Friday Cartoon: Smoking (Phil May, 1892)
The Wednesday Read: Curiosities. (The Strand, 1907)
A HOUSE NO MONEY CAN BUY The adjoining photograph is one I took on a mining claim in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado. The house is an old structure standing on a very rich mining area, known as the California Gulch. The ground around it had been diligently worked by miners in the early sixties with…
The Wednesday Read: Types of English Beauty (The Strand Magazine, 1891)
The Victorians enjoyed their titillation as much as any other culture it seems. I was interested on discovering this article to find that the Victorian idea of beauty was clearly comparatively open and inclusive . The “Beauties” series (more of which I intend to publish later) is actually multi-racial, featuring Indian princesses and Spanish Condesas…