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Kristy Baxter
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Vintage Internet Time Traveler

Newspapers, magazines, museums, and ephemera

Also cats & whimsy

Pennsylvania girl

Other Account: Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social
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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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Some real jewels in here. I've never seen an olde timey apple vending machine, e.g. Lots of other odd and striking machines, too.
A bygone apple vending machine. (Apple as in the fruit, not the company.) Above are stacks of apples in four columns (pink, yellow, red and yellow again) behind bars. An apple sits behind the slotted vending door at the bottom. A key is inserted into the purchasing mechanism. "Apples" is printed on the decorative top.
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Trimming ideas for turkey and pie

Holiday cookbook: special foods for all special occasions
Better Homes and Gardens
1959
Internet Archive
Thanksgiving Pretty trimmings of the season- Golden touch for turkey Fluffy yellow chrysanthemums make the turkey drumsticks festive. (Snipsome from your living-room bouquet!) Platter garnish one more flower plus pineapple rings topped with small bunches of sugared green grapes. Colorful accent-crab apples Remove cores from stem end of spiced crab apples; poke on ends of drumsticks. Or, anchor fluffs of parsley to drumsticks. Quick platter trim rounds of jellied cranberry sauce, topped with pineapple rings, split and twisted in S-shape. 88 Pumpkin-pie cornucopias... Cut slice of American proc ess cheese in half on diag-onal: roll each piece on long side. Anchor cornucopias with whole cloves. Arrange in pinwheel shape in center of pie (one per piece). ... or whipped-cream "daisy" Each snowy petal takes 1 large spoonful of whipped cream. To make petal, turn spoon sideways and flip oval island of whipped cream onto pumpkin pie. Form five or six petals one for each
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Menu for Thanksgiving at an unidentified restaurant
November 25, 1948
Culinary Institute of America
THANKSGIVING DAY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1948 Served from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Chicken Okra Louisiana Consomme Royale Jellied Consomme Grapefruit Juice Tomato Juice Cranberry Juice Fresh Jumbo Prawn Cocktail Baked Half Grapefruit au Rum Wafers Celery Ripe Olives * * * * Roast Young Turkey with Oyster Dressing, Giblet Gravy 2.50 Broiled New York Cut Sirloin Steak, Maitre D'Hotel 3.50 Roast Long Island Duckling with Apple Sauce 2.50 Broiled Half Lobster with Melted Butter and Shoestring Potatoes 2.50 Filet of Genuine Sole Saute in Butter, Meuniere 1.90 Omelette with Creamed Oysters, Poulette 2.00 Broiled English Lamb Chop with Pickled English Walnut 2.50 Half Avocado Stuffed with Fresh Crab Meat Salad 1.95 Hot Butterflake Rolls and Butter Candied Yams or Baked Buttered Idaho Potato Fresh Broccoli, Hollandaise or Creamed Kernal Corn Waldorf Salad with Walnuts Chantilly Dressing **** Hot English Plum Pudding with Hard and Brandy Sauce Apple or Pumpkin
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Pine Tree Inn Thanksgiving menu
Lakehurst, NJ
November 26, 1931
thanksgiving day fruit cocktail consomme, pate d'italie boston clam chowder radishes celery sweet gherkins cherry and pineapple preserve queen olives boiled codfish, hollandaise braised sweetbreads provencal fresh mushrooms on toast bartlett pear fritters, glace' new jersey turkey, roasted, cranberry sauce roast prime ribs fo beef au jus mashed potatoes boiled sweet potatoes boiled onions, naturel stewed corn fresh green beans steamed rice cole slaw, pimientos lettuce with french or mayonnaise dressing peach tapioca pudding, hard sauce mince pie pumpkin pie charlotte russe angel cake macaroons lady fingers assorted cake pineapple cherry ice cream american and swiss cheese saltines california oranges bananas pitted dates coffee nov 26/31 pine tree inn the inn in the pines lakehurst, n.j.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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A bubble gum card from the 1930s when you got sea radar chewing gum you got little pirate cards this is Pierre Le Grand a mean looking guy with a very waxed and curling mustache a slim handlebar
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Gonna write a memoir and title it "Sweater Lady: The Woman Who Bought All the Cardigans"
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Ring of Friendship: "From the end of the 16th century they were exchanged among friends and lovers to test each others’ dexterity and patience. The ring consists of six parts which can be dismantled. The challenge is to put them back together as they should be. It seems this could be frustrating."
A silver ring with two hands doing a handshake, with several other rings attached to it
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"Any man who stands in the way of the realization of this program is either a jack-ass, a has-been or a never-waser"

High Life magazine
1923
Equality for Women LET IT BE said that HIGH LIFE is first, last and always an exponent of all those things which women not only demand, as a right, but are entitled to as a matter of equity and justice. The granting of equal suffrage is only a slight dent in that 100% freedom and complete emancipation which will eventually be hers. Any man who stands in the way of the realization of this program is either a jack-ass, a has-been or a never-waser. Any woman who elevates an eye-brow or frowns in protest should be made to wear flannel petticoats and long-sleeved woolen shirts as a symbolism of her antiquity. High Life May 1923
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Why is he so cute
A cat stands with his front paws on a purple couch, his eyes wide, his ears perked, and his expression earnest
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Henry Clive, 1926

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Cover of the Smart Set magazine. Painting of a woman with her blonde haircut in a fashionable Bob. pendant Emerald earring and a big emerald ring on her wacky mannerist hands. she's holding some fur-trimmed garment to her breast
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Cinderella's carriage

1880-1923
NYPL
illustration. several women stand on a wide stairway, staring down at a tiny carriage driven by several mice
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Rabbit Barman Brooch

Raymond Yard
1930
From source: It is dated 1930. Its medium is diamonds, emeralds, ruby, platinum, onyx. This rabbit with champagne of 1930 was the first of American Raymond Yard’s fanciful animal-form cocktail brooches. Brooch is a rabbit dressed in a diamond tux carrying an ice bucket with champagne and a tray with two coupe glasses
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The Divorce Court

William Ely Hill
1926
scene in the hallway outside a courtroom, with cats dressed as people. A man and woman cat are on one side, their backs to the three cats behind them, two of whom are supporting a crying woman cat
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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*Mwah*

Francisco Rebajes
1950–60
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
silver brooch in the shape of lips
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The Debutant Who Would Overdo

William Ely Hill
1926
cartoon of a cat in a bed with a cat doctor and cat nurse attending her. Caption as titled
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Really feel like I'm learning a lot about whoever first owned this book, based on the home remedies they mark
Eye. — To remove a foreign substance from the eye, or ease itching or smarting, rub the other eye. (This never irritates the affected part, and gives it some sympathetic attention.) If water from the first snow of winter is used, it is good >for sore eyes.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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The Sleeping Car

William Ely Hill
1926
cartoon of the interior of a train sleeping car filled with cats. The cats are wild, climbing curtains, climbing on each other, jumping from sleeping berths.
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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kinda love these ladies for wearing card dresses to a card party

The Brooklyn Daily Times
Fri, Nov 20, 1925
news photo of 4 women in dresses with playing card faces as the front of the dresses; all are aces & each is a different suit caption: ACES ANY MAN WOULD LIKE TO to right) Anne Caven- dish Boyle, Julia Lee Orme, Bobbie Jackson and Celene Du Puy, Washington society girls at an American Legion card party at the capital.
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Nuptial Crown (details in alt text of first photo)

Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1767-1884
Hillwood Museum
from source: Empress Alexandra wore this crown at her wedding to Nicholas II in 1894. It came to be considered part of the imperial wedding regalia, along with a diamond studded kokoshnik that was worn in front of it, long diamond earrings, a jeweled clasp for the robe, and heavy bracelets, some of which date to the time of Catherine the Great. Bands of diamonds are sewn onto the velvet-covered supports of this orb-shaped wedding crown, and a cross of six larger, old mine-cut diamonds surmounts it. Three rows of small diamonds with two rows of larger diamonds in between form the bands. Crown of simple orb like shape, is formed of six silver bands surmounted by a cross and is encrusted with approximately 1,535 old mine diamonds. The diamonds are attached to strips of fabric in rows as they would have been used as epaulet ornament in the 18th c. Diamonds came from a doublet belonging to Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich. The crown has flaps at the bottom so it can be pinned on the hair. top view of crown with bands of diamonds criss-crossing over top of each other close up of diamond cross atop The crown
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Bongo and I were snuggling on the couch when husband came home from work, this is the face Bongo made
A cat on a yellow blanket, eyes wide and ears flat like he just saw a bear walk into the room
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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"Judge Nott" is an amazing judge name, it's like the opposite of nominative determinism

also don't throw people out of windows (the waiter landed on a roof below and survived)

The Brooklyn Daily Times
Nov 20, 1925
PAULINE IS SENTENCED Hypnotist and Actor Pal Get Inde- terminato Terme. Joseph R. Pauline, self styled hypnotist, and Jack Phillips, an actor, who were convicted by a Jury on Tuesday Of third degree assault, were sentenced today by Judge Nott, In General Sessions. Manhattan, to serve an Indeterminate sentence in prison. Both men were convicted of hurl- ing Sol Trencher, a waiter, from-dhe window of a room occupied by Pauline on the ninth floor of the Hotel Flanders, on Aug41St II. Harry Case, a song writer who was Indicted with the two men will bo tried later. Former Judge Leonard A. Smitkin announced today that he wil lappeal the conviction of Paul-' ine and Phillips.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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*summons the heist van*

Mauboussin
1925
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
brooch with diamonds, a large aquamarine, platinum, carved moonstone, black enamel and cabochon sapphires "This brooch by Mauboussin features a large aquamarine as its central element, unusual in 1925. Made in the year of the Paris Exposition, it may have been purchased there by an American."
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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1940s postcard time
A lady at a water well and it says heres well wishes from the country! And this is only a drop in the bucket!
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Pug potpourri vase (pugpourri vase? Is that anything?)

France, 1760
Hillwood Museum
from source: Blue porcelain body and lid, mounted in French gilt bronze with openwork Rococo scrolls, finial on lid Meissen porcelain pug dog scratching his ear, seated next to a bunch of porcelain flowers. Handles are shaped like vines. Round base in gilt bronze with openwork floral vines.
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Map of Brooklyn, 1867

Brooklyn Public Library
from source: Verso of map. Features advertisements from Brooklyn businesses: John S. Shipman, photographer; L.L. Clarke, tailor; H.T. Darrow, surgeon, dentist; H.B. Brown & Co., U.S. Bounty Claim Agency; Robert G. Thursby, auctioneer and real estate agent; C.W. Schoeneck, kitchen ranges, stoves, heaters, house furniture; Bassler, hatter; T.G. Sellew, office furniture; Nathan T. Beers, Jr., stocks, bonds, real estate; Hammam on Brooklyn Heights, Turkish baths, Charles H. Shepard; John G. West, Blacksmith, locksmith, plumbing; J. B. Hoecker, optician; Joseph J. Rife, tailor.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM