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Wikipedia editor and amateur singer with a day job as a systems admin. Recently focused on adding images and references to biographical articles and doing Spanish-English translations for Women in Red.
1926 ad for Valentine's Velspar
They just don't varnish planes like they used to.
They just don't varnish planes like they used to.
December 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
1926 ad for Valentine's Velspar
They just don't varnish planes like they used to.
They just don't varnish planes like they used to.
Virginia Henry Mayfield, the first female judge in Alabama
December 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Virginia Henry Mayfield, the first female judge in Alabama
From the offices of the Buffalo News, c. 1908
All newspapers used to have these.
Maybe some still do.
All newspapers used to have these.
Maybe some still do.
December 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
From the offices of the Buffalo News, c. 1908
All newspapers used to have these.
Maybe some still do.
All newspapers used to have these.
Maybe some still do.
Stores of J. N. Adam & Co., Flint & Kent, and the William Hengerer Company in Buffalo, New York, circa 1908
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Stores of J. N. Adam & Co., Flint & Kent, and the William Hengerer Company in Buffalo, New York, circa 1908
1926 GE ad with some confusing messages
Napoleon killed four million men, so wouldn't you like a machine that's forty times as powerful as all those dead guys?
Napoleon killed four million men, so wouldn't you like a machine that's forty times as powerful as all those dead guys?
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
1926 GE ad with some confusing messages
Napoleon killed four million men, so wouldn't you like a machine that's forty times as powerful as all those dead guys?
Napoleon killed four million men, so wouldn't you like a machine that's forty times as powerful as all those dead guys?
December 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Jerry Springer's grave at Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie
December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Jerry Springer's grave at Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie
Grave of entertainer Elaine Stritch at Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie
December 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Grave of entertainer Elaine Stritch at Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie
December 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Scottish-American chemist Alan W. C. Menzies (somehow pronounced MING-iss) in 1912
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Scottish-American chemist Alan W. C. Menzies (somehow pronounced MING-iss) in 1912
Grave of pilot and suffragist Leda R. Richberg at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Grave of pilot and suffragist Leda R. Richberg at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
Quite a headline from the front page of the Chicago Tribune, January 26, 1914
Don't use the corded ones in the tub, folks.
Don't use the corded ones in the tub, folks.
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Quite a headline from the front page of the Chicago Tribune, January 26, 1914
Don't use the corded ones in the tub, folks.
Don't use the corded ones in the tub, folks.
Grave of British-American actress Margaret Bird Insull (stage name Gladys Wallis) at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Grave of British-American actress Margaret Bird Insull (stage name Gladys Wallis) at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
New York lawyer and politician with the unfortunate name of Commodore Perry Vedder
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
New York lawyer and politician with the unfortunate name of Commodore Perry Vedder
James Henry McLean's very manly mausoleum at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
James Henry McLean's very manly mausoleum at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis
Italian Olympic sculptor Antonietta Paoli Pogliani
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Italian Olympic sculptor Antonietta Paoli Pogliani
Painter Carola de Agostini
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Painter Carola de Agostini
Painter and printmaker Corinna Modigliani and ceramist Olga Modigliani
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Painter and printmaker Corinna Modigliani and ceramist Olga Modigliani
Pixavon shampoo ad from La Donna magazine, July 20, 1912
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Pixavon shampoo ad from La Donna magazine, July 20, 1912
Ad for the Bust Exuber Developer from La Donna magazine, July 5, 1912
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ad for the Bust Exuber Developer from La Donna magazine, July 5, 1912
German-Italian painter Ernestina Orlandini in La Donna magazine, June 5, 1912
November 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
German-Italian painter Ernestina Orlandini in La Donna magazine, June 5, 1912
1912 ads for Strega and Theromegene in La Donna magazine
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
1912 ads for Strega and Theromegene in La Donna magazine
Italian journalist and women's rights activist Giacinta Martini Marescotti
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Italian journalist and women's rights activist Giacinta Martini Marescotti
Liebig's Extract of Meat Company ads from La Donna magazine, 1912
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Liebig's Extract of Meat Company ads from La Donna magazine, 1912
Ernest Kent Coulter, the founder of the organization now known as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Ernest Kent Coulter, the founder of the organization now known as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America