[Source: Allen & Ginter Cigarette Cards 1888-1889]
American Indian Chiefs Cigarette Cards – Pt. 1
Category: True Stories
Art
Silent film actress Alberta Vaughn was featured in a surrealist artwork by Persian artist Jon S. Oshanna (1895-1980) circa 1924. Oshanna was a muralist and commercial artist, active in California.
[Found here.]
The Nutria Buyer
Nutrias are bigass swamp rats and Mr. Petre was likely a fur trader in the 1970s before the rodent was classified as an invasive species in the U.S. Besides being environmentally destructive, nutrias are such prolific breeders that they outstripped the demand tor their fur, the nutria fur trade business collapsed, trapping and killing stopped… then their populations exploded.
Muskrat Love
Spanish trapper hanging muskrats up to dry their fur before skinning. Stretching and drying the pelt follows this. His camp is in the marshes nearby. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parrish, Louisana, 1941.
[Image and caption found here.]
Electrical Experimenter Magazine 1918
1965 NASA PDAD Robot
The ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ project was under Contract No. NAS 9-1370 and ran from May 22, 1963 through July 31, 1965. It was originally built for Nasa’s Manned Spacecraft Center by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The reason for a test dummy was officials hoped to use it during design and testing of a spacesuits, which might otherwise be painful, tedious or even dangerous for human beings.
The 1965 robot was able to simulate 35 basic human motions and used sensors to gather data on how the human body acted in a pressurized suit – but it never made it off the ground due to its tendency to leak oil.
Only two of these robots were created, the one selling for $80,000 and another that is owned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
My WebEx Meeting Notes 08 March – 06 July 2023
9am daily. Pen on paper, 8-1/2 x 11, approx. 2 square inches per each 30 minute teleconference.
WWI U.S. Tank “America”
Original caption:
American-built tank “America”, designed by Professor E.F. Miller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photographed in July of 1918.
[Un-colorized image found in this collection.]
Eiffel Tower Construction Timelapse
Fortunately, this never happened:
[Images – and more – found here.]
Noah’s BBQ & Grill
“If you have ever wondered where Noah’s Ark landed, here it is! North of Leucadia, CA at the Batiquitos lagoon! George Herbert build the boat in 1946 and it served patrons until around the 1960s.”
No place for vegans.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 