Pink Tentacle has larger versions of 14 beautiful travel posters produced by Japanese steamship companies. These were from the early 20th century, when travel itself was supposed to be as luxurious as the destination....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/12/steamship-advertising-in-japan/Dark Roasted Blend looks at Coney Island in its heyday, when parks and attractions were constantly opening and attempting to outdo everything that came before. See photographs and postcards from the 19th and early 20th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/08/phantasmagorical-coney-island/When the dorkiest guy in a collection of pictures is Mick Jagger, you know you're in for a treat. Pictured is Clark Gable. Link -via Everlasting Blort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/15/cool-guys-on-motorcycles/[https://youtu.be/HZ-OrfJHHro] (YouTube link)Edison Studios made the first movie version of Frankenstein in 1910. It was released 100 years ago last week. Frankensteinia has details and the story of how the film was lost...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/24/the-first-frankenstein-movie/Tom Schifanella collects classic luggage labels and shares them through his Flickr stream. A suitcase covered with these is a sign of a life grandly lived. Luggage labels are fascinating bits of hotel history from the g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/20/art-of-the-luggage-label/I don't know what's really going on in this picture, but "turtle wax" was my first reaction. http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/post/358465343/thanks-joao-paulo -via Buzzfeed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/31/turtle-wax/Find hundreds of ads going up to a couple hund... ...going up to a couple hundred years back with the Vintage Ad Browser. I spent a lot of time looking around,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/vintage-ad-browser/Children of the Victorian Era had to be tough, because this Santa Claus would have given me nightmares! This picture is a detail of a larger family portrait from Flickr user stevechasmar. For sheer weirdness, it just mig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/25/creepy-victorian-santa/Would you let your children pose with this Santa and his taxidermy donkey? This postcard is part of an extensive collection of found photos belonging to Albert Tanquero. I spent a lot of time this morning looking through...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/15/creepy-santa-and-other-found-photos/(YouTube link) Pioneering professional nurse Florence Nightingale {wiki} was already 70 years old when she recorded this snippet for Thomas Edison and posterity in 1890. This recording has been redubbed to different f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/24/the-voice-of-florence-nightingale/
