Click for full imageFather and two daughters, 1890s.
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Steam-Powered Space-Ships, 1918.
Click for full image If these amazing craft could actually reach the impressive speed of two miles per minute (120mph), how long would it take to reach the sun? Over fifty years, or so says the margin notes in the original. I have never seen such a wonderful portmanteau of craft-shapes compiled into a single […]
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The Beautiful Land of Sound, 1900s.
Click for full imageAn illustration of “The Beautiful Land of Sound”, from the Children’s Encyclopedia, 1900s. The Encyclopedia used a theme of fairies and goblins in its music education sections.
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Dakota City, North Dakota, 1890s.
Click for full image Greetings from scenic Dakota City, North Dakota! It took a little research to figure out what the cartographer was going off of, but the issue may be the result of lazy mapmaking. The full-sized map comes from the Harmsworth Self-Educator, a British encyclopedia from the 1910s. On closer examination, it’s odd […]
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Cold War Wind Patterns, 1963.
Click for full image What does this map show? It relies on the wind patterns of an average spring day, in that particular decade. That decade was the 1960s, and about the biggest worry to be carried on those spring winds: fallout. This map projects fallout, if an “enemy” were to drop 3,000 megatons on […]
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Broadway and NP, 1970s.
Click for full image The corner of Broadway and NP Avenue, looking north, in downtown Fargo. Early 1970s.
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Orthographic Ireland, 1910s.
Click for full image“Bird’s Eye” view of Ireland, an orthographic map of the Irish Isles. From The Book of Knowledge, 1910s.
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Family Portrait, 1910s.
A family portrait, taken in the 1910s.
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Jerry “Killer” Meeker, 1945.
Click for full image Professional wrestler Jerry (Killer) Meeker, from an advertisement for an appearance (with others) in Fargo, ND, 1945.
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Snowed In, 1950s.
Click for full imageA home in a rural or semi-rural area in the upper midwest. How the photographer got out of the house is a mystery, unless they arrived to assist in the snow removal. 1950s.