Regions Beyond

Let’s sleep in. 

While facial hair can thicken during pregnancy, the abundance of her beard and the unusual age of her conception in any era makes me wonder if she had some kind of hormonal disorder. Anyone out there have any ideas?

Can we just appreciate for a second how the beauty standards of the day demanded that even a woman who was mostly torso still needed a corset? haha. 

Monday morning responsibilities. 

Painting: Elizabeth Platonovna Yaroshenko by Nikolai Yaroshenko, 1880.

Sunday nights are made of lazy. 

Elk skeleton preserved as he fell against a fir tree. Source unknown. Fascinating.

A different kind of baby making: German doll factory, circa 1950.

Light as a feather, stiff as a board...

Squad goals. 

Ever wonder why public drinking fountains are a thing? During the temperance and suffrage movements, as clean water became more accessible in urban areas, the activist Frances Willard (a badass educator and women's advocate ahead of her time who traveled tirelessly with her personal assistant/lesbian partner) worked to have them installed in cities across the country as a ready alternative to liquor. This beautiful example called "Little Water Girl" was erected in Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and stood in front of the women's organization that bore Willard's name until the '20s. After it was moved to Lincoln Park, it was unfortunately stolen and never recovered. 

Autumn in the forest, Taichung, Taiwan.

Happy Friday The 13th, lovelies! Quick research indicates this is a 19th century flyer for a "13th Club" chapter--a gentlemen's club (not that kind) along the lines of the Oddfellows.

Here she is in 1907 covered in her husband Gus’s handiwork. In addition to being a talented circus performer and acrobat, she was one of the first prominent female tattoo artists herself, passing her art down to her daughter who picked up the tattoo machine at the ripe old age of 9. 

Read more about the Radium Girls. 

Young girl with cat circa 1920's.