Images Moving Through Time

March 8, 2016

"Do we see ourselves in others? Do we look back from outside and see ourselves? Do we see growth and expansion? Do we see our greater self?" (James Anderson Charleson, Experience Personal Fulfillment, 2013). Our photo of someone seeing her greater self in another is an "overlay of images of Amadeo and Lucie (Portugal, 1915)."

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#vintage photo #black and white photography #double exposure #greater self #self in others #photo

March 5, 2016

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We haven't yet tracked down the earliest recorded pampered pooch, but here's a pampered pooch with an early recording. Those canine headphones make the famous dog listening to "his master's voice" from a gramaphone horn seem downright old-fashioned. Scanned by the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

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#dog #vintage photo #his master's voice #dog headphones #vintage dog #photo

March 1, 2016

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You've heard of the struggles of being the middle child. As scanned by the Costică Acsinte Archive.

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#vintage photo #black and white photography #middle child #blurred #photo

September 7, 2015

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Years ago we developed a calendar system that tracks the flow and relationships of telltale words and symbols. One can generate an entire month's calendar to test its accuracy in predicting events in daily life. The link is http://mysteryarts.com/magic/calendar/.

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#divination #calendar #symbolism

April 21, 2015

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How things have changed. Today we're encouraged to drink lots of water, but back in 1911, when drinking water was considered irresponsible, "if you just must drink water," then at least let it be bottled. From Polk-Husted Directory Co.'s Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda Directory.

#vintage illustration #illustration #bottled water #too much water #bottle

March 24, 2015

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"Why shouldn't I tell you the whole truth? I really hope that one day I'll be able to see Time itself. Not actually there on the face of the watch of course. But one day I do hope to see how to see Time. It'd be a discovery with quite unpredictable consequences." —Ernst Kreuder, The Attic Pretenders

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Photo courtesy of Ines Seidel.

#time #father time #attic pretenders #proust #clock face #time itself

November 15, 2014

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"The light of other days," from A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley, 1884.

#vintage illustration #illustration #lamplighter

October 31, 2014

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Here are some creepy old portraits from Broadstone Hall and Other Poems by William Edward Windus, with illustrations by A. Concanen, 1875. One's canine or skeletal, one's feline, and one's avian or alien. Note also the dimensionality of the portraits — the standing figure looks like he's ready to step right out into the room. And even the drapery at the right is haunted.

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#vintage illustration #haunted mansion #haunted portrait #haunted painting #illustration

August 24, 2014

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Here's a proof that time is in one's head, from The Man in the Moon (1847).

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration

May 1, 2014

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Dancing around the May-day queen in the village green, from The Quiver, 1873.

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#circle dance #ceremony #May day #spring festival #pagan ritual #village green

March 10, 2014

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Here's an owl border we salvaged and restored from an 1860 issue of Arthur's Home Magazine. For re-sizing convenience, we created an EPS version for downloading.

#vintage illustration #owl #ornate border #owl frame #illustration

August 6, 2013

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We're glad to have contributed a photograph to "Imagination Made Real," an article about the architecture of Portmeirion, Wales.

July 26, 2013

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One of our best-kept secrets: the other half of our daily blogging is over at our

Borgesian Circulating Depository.

June 17, 2013

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We're delighted to see our photo of the 600-year-old Yamashiro Pagoda (the oldest structure in America) illustrating a Tahoe Trader article about the value of the Yen.

June 9, 2013

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We're honored that How-To-Geek used our massive panorama view from the Saint Augustine lighthouse to demonstrate how to create a photo planet. They took our original photo:

and transformed it:

December 31, 2012

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Did you know that Santa, back when he was svelte, used to deliver presents on New Year's Eve and not Christmas Eve? This illustration is from The Family Magazine, 1840.

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#vintage illustration #santa claus #rooftop #illustration

December 12, 2012

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Bleeding ink and Google's scanning machine combine to form an aptly titled "Pairing." The illustration is from Peterson's magazine, 1877.

#vintage illustration #reflection #winter #birds #illustration

July 24, 2012

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Whimsical electrical poles then and now: the first image is from Punch, 1849, and the second is by Choi+Shine Architects (see photos of their stunning "The Land of Giants" electrical pylons on the Iceland landscape). Truly, "electricity dances in the air here" (Timothy Brown, Temple of the Troll God, 2001).

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#vintage illustration #illustration #electrical pole

June 9, 2012

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A ready-made collage courtesy of Google Books: from an 1898 issue of Munsey's magazine.

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#vintage illustration #illustration #accidental collage #torn page

December 20, 2011

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"What is the present but the sum of the past in a moment of consciousness? And because the spirit can call upon this consciousness — this recall — at will, so the present is ever there in the stream of time and the flowing weave can become a broad tapestry spread out for me to contemplate; and I can point to the spot where a particular thread in the weft marks the start of a new design in the pattern. And I can follow the thread, knot by knot, forwards and backwards; it does not break off, it carries the design and the meaning in the design; it is the essence of the tapestry and has nothing to do with its temporal existence."
—Gustav Meyrink, The Angel of the West Window

#time #gustav meyrink

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