Category: Miscellaneous
Christmas in LA, 1928
Christmas trees on South Flower Street, Los Angeles, 1928 
Did Santa Claus Find It? 1914
Christmas spirit in the trenches, World War One, from the Columbus Evening Dispatch.
Zebra Drawn Carriage, 1915
A carriage being drawn by a Zebra though the streets of London.
Dracula, 1931
The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina. (IMDb.com)
Clue, 1949
Clue (Cluedo, outside of the US) is a murder mystery game that was first published in Leeds, England in 1949. The game was devised by Anthony E. Pratt.
Dance of the Werewolf, 1917
Illustration from the newspaper serial novel “King of the Khyber Rifles” by Talbot Mundy
As she danced she whirled both arms above her head and cried as the werewolves are said to do on stormy nights,
TO-DAY IS Friday the 13th!
He Walks! He Talks! He… Yodels?
It’s Radio Man! A genuine walking, talking, yodeling robot!
TOWERING seven feet high, a strange “radio man” has just been completed after ten years of arduous work by August Huber, a Swiss engineer. Beneath its jointed steel body, the gigantic mechanical man is a maze of automatic switches, relays, and other controls. Microphones within the automaton’s’ ears pick up spoken commands and carry them to an intricate system of twenty electric motors that make the fantastic creature walk, talk, sing, or yodel at the will of its master. Power for these various activities is supplied by batteries concealed in the ponderous legs. When this modern monster talks through the loudspeaker installed in its chest, its lips move in time with its speech. An ultra-short-wave receiver installed in its torso enables the “radio man” to follow orders transmitted to it by radio from remote points.
Roman Colosseum
From A History Of Architecture On The Comparative Method by Sir Fletcher Banister, 1928