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Kristy Baxter

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · Aug 21

My default vibe

Bill Brandt
undated
Cornell University Collection

b&w photo. a girl in a plaid dress leans back in a chair, legs crossed and feet resting on another chair. By her legs is a table with a glass on it. The girl is holding a cigarette and has a general air of ennui.

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 56m

Or under the mattress! bsky.app/profile/kbax...

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 1d

It would never occur to me to use the mattress to press clothes, but that's pretty brilliant

The Dayton Herald
Thu, Feb 23, 1928

Gotham's Pants Baggy When
Pressers' Strike Is Spread
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.--Most of
the trousers worn in New York City
and adjacent precincts went, un-
pressed today.
To be sure there were a rew
gracious wives who consented to do
flatiron duty.
And there were some men provi-
dent enough to have parked their
important garments under the mat-tress last night before retiring.
But the vast majority ot pants
began to develop wrinkles where F
they shouldn't and the customary
crease became dulled.
Since Monday, workers in small
tailor shops and wholesale cleaning L
plants have been on strike, and ex-
cept in the picketed open shops no
cleaning and dyeing has been done.
Today the pressers also struck in
the small neighborhood shops.
where the average New Yorker goes
to have his other suit pressed or to (continued on page 4)

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 5h

Federal Art Project
1936
Library of Congress

Poster announcing roller skating carnival in Central Park, New York City, showing a child roller skating with a jack-o-lantern mask.

Text: Halloween roller skating carnival On the mall, Central Park : Bring your skates : Come in costume : Prizes will be given for costumes.

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 7h

Costumes for ladies in the 1880s: White Cat, Welsh, Witch, White Lady

(note: I suspect the last costume option is not a reference to race, but to this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_L...)

Fancy Dress Described: Or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls
Ardern Holt
1880
NYPL

page with four costumes for ladies sketched in brown ink. White cat: sort of cat-like hat and a dress kinda like Belle's 1st one in Beauty and the BEast. welsh: Pilgrim-like. Witch: fancy, netted dress, broom, witches hat. White lady: long dress, hair long and loose

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 10h

that H is silent but powerful

The Longton Gleaner
September 29, 1911

The Longton Gleaner
Fri, Sep 29, 1911
Elated, apparently, at the addition
of an "h" to its name, Pittsburgh is
to have a 40-story bank building. The
Smoky City is feeling the uplifting
tendencies of the times.

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 17h

G'nite!

NYPL
1900/1930

postcard with a little girl in pink nightgown and red witch's hat riding a broom with a black cat on the straw part. Behind her is a low city skyline with starry sky stretching above, and a large full moon silhouetting the girl, with the words "jolly halloween". The message "may fortune smile on you" is in the bottom right corner.

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 18h

"That the average Massachusetts girl is not impressionable has long been asserted. This proves it."

The Longton Gleaner
September 29, 1911

A Massachusetts girl in a fall
wrecked five glass floors in a public
library building, landed on a marble
floor in the basement and then walked
away. That the average Massachu-
setts girl is not impressionable has
long been asserted. This proves it.

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 19h

This is outstanding

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 19h

The Smooch, from Miss Piggy's Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Kermitage Collection — Michael K. Frith, 1984

A sculpture in white but probably not marble and imitation of Rodin sculpture the kiss we have miss Piggy and Kermit kissing. Kermit sits on Miss Piggy's knees, and she bends down to kiss him — reversing the position of the male and female figures in the original.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19h

They're like shag rugs!

A Komondor dog lying on the floor, looking extremely rug-like.

A Komondor running: imagine a charging shag rug with legs and a mouth. It is ridiculous.

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 19h

I want to snuggle it and braid its hair 🥹

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 19h

Oh my GOD this is like the photograph version of burying the lede! Look at that thing!

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 19h

The timing could be right, but idk for sure

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 20h

That is one big floofy fella, i love him

The Bellingham Herald
Feb 23, 1940

photo of a young woman and a large dog with a very floofy head, fur like a cloud poofed on his head, tongue lolling
T U N N E Y'S D O C—Rare entry in recent Westminster Ken•
nel club show. New York, was this Komondorock, Pannonia
Pandur, who won best-of-breed. Girl is Margaret Dorrlamm. The.
dog's owned by Gene Tunney and Tibor de Cholnoky

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 22h

That had to hurt

The Uralla Times
Thu, Oct 24, 1929

HUNG BY THUMBS.
Heartless Bandits Weird
Crime.
Vancouver, Thursday. —A message
from Lethbridge, Alberta, s ales
that the whole countryside has been
stirred by a weird crime in which
Stever Churrie was robbed by heart-
less bandits.
Arriving at Churrie's lonely farm,
they hung him up by the thumbs un-
til he revealed the hiding-place of 100 pounds.
They left him tied by the
wrists to the barn rafters, and stole
his motor car so as to prevent pur-
suit, finally dumping it, wrecked, in-
to a ravine.

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 1d

It would never occur to me to use the mattress to press clothes, but that's pretty brilliant

The Dayton Herald
Thu, Feb 23, 1928

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Rosemary's Baby for the first time and this scene where the women are talking about periods is going to stay with me forever

Movie scene, three women in a 1970s apartment, closed captioning days "Dan used to give me gin through a straw to kill the pain"

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · Oct 1

"Halloween - ancient and modern"

Clifford Kennedy Berryman 1909

Drawing of two witches in the sky, one is flying on a broom and the other in an old timey plane

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 1d

"Forty years ago this fall a cow in Chicago kicked over a lamp and burned the town down. It has, however, picked up remarkably since."

The Longton Gleaner
Sept 29, 1911

The Longton Gleaner
Sept 29, 1911
Forty years ago this fall a cow in
Chicago kicked over a lamp and
burned the town down. It has, how-
ever, picked up remarkably
since.

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 1d

Handing each kid a potato as they walk out the door

The Dayton Herald
Thu, Feb 23, 1928

Potatoes Will be Taken
to Schools for Miners
Parent-Teacher Associations Go to
Aid of Starving.
Pupils of Dayton schools will bring potatoes, one each, to their
school buildings Thursday for the
relief of people in the poor mining
district of southern Ohio. who are
destitute because of the prolonged
strike.
Thursday marks the getting un-
der way of the campaign by Parent-
Teacher organizations of a relief
campaign for the miners and their
families. Paper sales will be held
in schools Thursday and Friday.
Food and clothing may be taken
to fire stations, where it will be
packed and shipped through the
courtesy of Fire Chief Frank Ramby.
Members of welfare committees of
the various Parent-Teacher associations throughout the city will be on duty at the stations to receive
the donations.

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 2d

Painter Jean-Antoine Watteau was baptised #OnThisDay in 1684. The box pleats which are a feature of the robe à la française are sometimes called Watteau pleats. This c. 1775 pink, floral silk taffeta brocaded court dress with Watteau pleats is from the MFA Boston collection. #fashionhistory

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

You could write a different version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” for every week this year

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 2d

1909
Library of Congress

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it. 3 shows in one : magic, illusions, escapes = fraud mediums exposed.
Lyceum Theatre
Thurs Fri Sat
Sept 2, 3, 4
Illustrated with image of Houdini looking smug, while behind him a wide variety of spirits, ghosts, ghouls, demons, etc cavort

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 2d

10 October 1893 a Boston Daily Globe headline asked "Who is Waterproof Man?" who was haunting the young women of Exeter, NH, assaulting them, and tearing off pieces of their clothing. Factory girls and shop girls were terrified. Rumors claimed it was a prank by students at Phillips Exeter.

headline:
WHO HIS WATERPROOF MAN.
Is a Terror to Young Women of Exeter NH
Assaults them on the street and taps on their window panes.
Object seems to be to get mementoes of clothing -- students suspected.

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like it's around 5 am eastern

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 3d

And gams recognize gams

Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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