#vintage dictionary

[shootwithheart]

I love dictionary definitions that are like

What is a bosun? Well, its a boatswain of course!

And now I have to go on a choose your own adventure through the dictonary to figure out what a boatswain is and learn way too much and I always do this because there might be a publishers joke hidden in it vintage books did dumb shit like that to catch plagiarism and etc.

#boatswain #i dont even know #vintage dictionary #craft supplies #this bad boy can make so many collages #vocabulary #choose your own definition #cyoa #dictionary adventures #advanced lit #anyway im gonna destroy this for my art now

[thegroovyarchives]

Record From Mi Primer Diccionario Ilustrado De Inglés, Dixon and Fox, 1974.

#groovy #vintage illustration #vintage ephemera #dictionary #mid-century #70's #1974 #my scans

[mudwerks]

(via Get hip to teenage antics and terms with this handy guide)

#teenage slanguage dictionary #dobie #maynard #vintage #humor #book

[gameraboy2]

"Bubble" Super Dictionary (1979)

#bubble #superman #supergirl #vintage #1979 #1970s #super dictionary #dictionary #comics #comic book #comic book art #comic books #art #illustration

[yesterdaysprint]

The Miami Herald, Florida, May 19, 1931

#1930s #spelling #history #dictionary #newspapers #vintage

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Gustavus Hindman Miller - The Dictionary of Dreams - Arco - 1984

#witches #dreamers #occult #vintage #the dictionary of dreams #dreams #dictionary #arco books #gustavus hindman miller #1984 #dreams explained #10000 dreams

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here’s my collection of vintage ads.

#vintage ad #dictionary #vintage illustration #ad

[afuaart]

Notes of willow

I find the notes of tranquility, they say.

Yet in my heart, anxiety quivers and shakes,

A storm within, my soul's restless ache.

The willow's branches, a haven of grace,

Embrace me, a refuge in nature's embrace.

But my thoughts, like leaves, they dance and twirl,

In the winds of unease, they unfurl.

In the juxtaposition of calm and fear,

I find the essence of life, so clear.

For even in chaos, a beauty can reside,

In the notes of willow and anxiety's tide.

Juxtaposition- the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

~Afua

#dead poets society #poets on poetry #poetry #poets on tumblr #vintage #willow nightingale #poetsandwriters #my poem #library #love poetry #original poem #dictionary #new beginnings #poetscommunity #shadowhunters

[misforgotten2]

Reader's Digest   December 1972

#vintage ad #vintage ads #advertising #advertisment #1972 #christmas gifts #bicycle #dictionary #electric shavers #electric razor #sunbeam #huffy #1970s #1970s ad #1970's #1970's ad #christmas #xmas #gifts #gift guide

[robertmatejcek]

Paper Wasps' Nest - 2.5″x2.5″ paper negative, kodak brownie hawkeye with inverted lens, caffenol developer - robert matejcek - 2023

Dale Gribble: "They'll probably get you with a blow-dart; that's their way. But you'll just think it's a mosquito bite until you die, then you'll know the truth." - Johnny Hardwick - King of the Hill

tags:

#robert matejcek #film photography #alternative photographic processes #paper negative #medium format #ilford multigrade paper #kodak brownie hawkeye #vintage camera #flipped lens #inverted lens #caffenol developer #paper wasp nest #insect #found objects #dictionary #books #science #life science #biology #art #my art #photographers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #blurry photographs #grunge aesthetic #blurry aesthetic #entomology #zoology

[stone-cold-groove]

Groove with the Now ’70s Language Dictionary.

#vintage advertising #the 70s #slang #70s lingo #language #dictionaries #groovy

[weirdyearbook]

The first step toward being a walking encyclopedia: a walking dictionary.  From Arkansas Polytechnic College's 1925 yearbook.

All sorts of vintage book imagery is here in my virtual stacks.

Wondering about this post?  Wait for the dissertation (TBA). For now:  Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy

#dictionary #walking dictionary #faces in things #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook

[professorpski]

... she caught cold the night she broke in here and took your Paisley shawl. And if you as my advice, Miss Agnes, you'll get it back against before the hears step in and claim it. They don't make them shawl nowadays, and she is as like as not to will it to somebody if you don't go after it.

This is the housekeeper talking to her employer about an old woman, now ill and possibly dying about a shawl that went missing. Notice that the word Paisley is capitalized. We think of it as a pattern and indeed it became known as a pattern, but the name is actually of a Scottish town and thereby hangs a tale of global trade.

Look in the Oxford English Dictionary, which traces the evolving use of a word and you will see that a Paisley shawl was “a large, highly patterned shawl, of a type produced in large quantities in Paisley in the 19th-cent., typically woven (or sometimes printed) with designs inspired by similar shawls imported from Kashmir (now chiefly historical)....”

So the first shawls were 18th-century imports from the East India Company with a distinctive design from that part of the world and then British began weaving or printing these patterned shawls in the early 19th century. And this was how the name of a Scottish town stuck to a pattern taken from the other side of the globe. And you thought global trade was a new thing. Or at least my students often do.

This is from Mary Roberts Rinhart’s novel The Confession which was was first published as a serial in a magazine, and then republished with another story in 1921 in novel form. Rinehart is one of those very successful novelists of the early 20th Century.

#paisley shawl #paisley pattern #paisley print #paisley woven #Oxford English Dictionary #east india company #18th century fashion #19th Century fashion #paisley #global trade #mary roberts rinehart #the confession #fashion in fiction #vintage shawl #costume history #dress history #fashion history

[wordgoods]

Bullet Bras of the 1940s & 1950s - pointy, conical bras

You don’t see many of these vintage bras these days but they were very popular during the 1940s and 1950s. They were made famous by the sweater girls (various Hollywood actresses who adopted the fashion of wearing tight sweaters over a bullet-shaped or cone bra), and Madonna even wore one designed by Jean Paul Gaultier during her Blond Ambition Tour back in 1990.

see more pics here

#bullet bra #bra #bras #lingerie #vintage #words #vocabulary #dictionary #vintage fashion #vintage lingerie

[gameraboy2]

"Birthday" The Super Dictionary (1979)

#birthday #the super dictionary #lex luthor #comics #comic book #comic book art #comic books #art #illustration #vintage #1979 #1970s

[adtothebone]

But I must.

#book #books #reading #literature #reference #dictionary #English #American English #vintage #antique #history