rrrick:

fyeahstpunk:

Ballooners, 1895, France.

I wish today’s extreme athletes dressed like these gentlemen.

Look for the burning boy.

victusinveritas:

ellenkushner:

ecraftic:

From Anna Held´s Fencing girls. Circa 1900

How timely!  I am currently writing a story about women fencers.  But mine do not look like this.  I have the feeling that, in 1900, this was a Naughty Postcard.  Lookit those legs! Woohoo!

Friend of mine just went to a fencing femme’s wedding. The pictures on facebook are pretty much the best…since they ended up turning the dance floor into a piste, because what else could they do, really?

vintagemarlene:

lovely vintage color photo, tokyo, japan, late 1800s (source: www.vintag.es)

pitchersandpoets:

collectivehistory:

Baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from a glassmaking factor,  Indiana, August 1908, by Lewis Hine (LOC) 

tough hats jr edition

World’s Largest Ball Player (non-Uribe division).

joshreads:

Associate Justice James Moore Wayne: Great Supreme Court hair, or GREASTEST Supreme Court hair?

beatonna:

A member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, 1904.

Well I don’t know, maybe a penguin appreciates that sort of thing

donnalethal:

Gaucho of the Argentine Republic, 1868.

yeoldenews:

I am a mature, adult historian…

(source: The Ozaukee County Advertiser, June 20, 1855.)

mightyflynn:

1886

Girl Baseball Players series

via realbroad

yeoldenews:

“Thereby disgracing the 19th century.”

(Source: Cedarburg Weekly News, March 13, 1889.)

The 19th century is ashamed of you, timid minds!

americanshaft:

Members of the Brighton Swimming Club (a.k.a. “The Brighton Bulge”)

via io9

phantomoftheradio:

Two Sisters In Masks (by mizaliza)