RAMBLINGS OF A MAD MIND

Geoffrey C. Ingleton - Sea Ruffians (ca. 1930s)

Internet Archive

Internet Archive

The principles of light and color, 1878 

Egon Freidell, The Return Of The Time Machine, 1972

This leaping hunting dog can be made to open and close its mouth using the lever beneath the chest. Originally secured by means of a thong tied through the hole in the back of its neck and two in the throat, the lever was later attached with a metal dowel in the right shoulder. When the mouth is opened, two teeth and a red tongue are visible.

The two Kashmir Giants posing with the American photographer James Ricalton, 1903

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Muppets Haunted Mansion. 2021.

Library of Congress

Entrance to the Crypt, Roslin Chapel, by David Roberts (1796–1864), painted in 1843 with oil on panel (71.6 x 62.1 cm), currently in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

It’s been said that we still have only the crudest understanding of ghosts. Here are a thousand vintage ghosts I’ve invited over.

Starlight by Émile Vernon (French, 1872–1919)

Glen Ellis Falls, 1863

Ektachrome slides from Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Indian bicycle ad from 1916