“Weather control machine—A postcard circa 1900 of their expectations of life in the year 2000 (via Retronaut)
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Jacques-Fabien Gautier-d’Agoty (1716?-1785), Cartes en couleur des lieux sujets aux tremblements de terre dans toutes les parties du monde selon le sistème de l’impulsion solaire (1756)
On Jacques-Fabien Gautier: The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Industry and Ideas
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An English girl, one of 197 illustrations to the revised edition of the ‘Bab Ballads’, p 499, 1898; woman, with cricket bat. Drawn by: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (via British Museum)
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Still from Das Waschsfigurenkabinett (Waxworks)
Directed by Paul Leni & Leo Birinski, UFA, Weimar Republic, 1924
(Source: filmforum-bremen.de)



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