popularhistory:

Via the Ohio Federal Art Project, 1938

“JUNIOR LEAGUERS … in S.F. Autumn Dance. L. to R. Mrs. Alb. Shumate, Peggy Gregory, Jane Henley, [Mar]y Patchin, Frances Val Fleet, Louise Robertson, Mrs. Martin Stelling Jr., Mrs. Stanley Page, Christine Henry, [J]ane Plummer, Mrs. Lawrence McCune, Mrs. Alx. Young Jr.”
Oct. 19, 1935

shootemupride:

cab calloway - reefer man

hey wanna know how classless and uncultured i am? this is the first cab calloway video that ive seen that isnt like an animated betty boop cartoon! I HAVE NO EXPOSURE TO WONDERFUL THINGS APPARENTLY

also i really love how the guy is just playing with his sequined hat until 1:25, hes the star of the first half of the video

tacticalshoyu:

Aganetha Dyck is a sculptor, who initially worked with a range of sculptural media like wool, cigarettes and buttons. Since 1991 she has concentrated solely on collaborating with the honey bee as architect and places ordinary objects in apiary hives allowing the bees to create honeycomb to encrust the objects.

Found this clipping in an unrelated library book about the beauty of nature in Berkeley, CA published by the Unitarian Church in 1898. Not sure when the clipping is from, but these theories probably hold up, right?

womanzine:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CAMP

It is nearly summer—and all that we are dreaming of these days. So we’ve decided to dedicate this next issue to a favorite summer activity: camping. And we’d like to invite you to submit something! Deadline July 1st. Email your submission to womansinc [at] gmail.

CAMP things we’re thinking would be cool:

• Summer camp: crushes, sunburns, heat rashes, awkward moments (the kind of thing you would’ve submitted to Teen magazine), etc.
• Camp on TV or in movies (ahem)
• Camping: in tents, when it’s great, when it sucks, when you went with your parents and it was really so rad
• Camping as portrayed in a book or music video, like this Mariah Carey fave.
• GO CRAZYYY (somewhere within the realms of def.s 1&2)

Types of submissions we accept: pretty much everything. Check out our site to help imagination how your piece might look. Kinds of things you might think of doing: 

• GIFs
• Cartoons
• Jokes, knock-knock or not or whatever
• Personal Essays
• Photographs
• Recipes
• DIY projects
• Illustrations
• Fiction
• Case studies
• So much more

Our Tumblr is updated with whatever is inspiring us each issue, so follow us here or on Twitter. For the uninitiated, WOMANZINE is a zine by women. It is always beautiful, sometimes absurd, and historically tongue-in-cheek. Our archives are available online, if you’d like to familiarize yourself. 

womanzine:

A collage by Tess Dworman, from Womanzine CULT

Mother’s Day brunch held by Italian Line at Park Lane, NYC
May 14, 1961

sciencecenter:

Scientists announce world’s smallest mammoth

Struggling to live up to its namesake, the Mammuthus creticus lived on the island of Crete as recently as 3.5 million years ago. Standing at just a meter tall (3 feet, for the Americans keeping score) at the shoulder, the mammoth would have been dwarfed by a modern baby elephant. The discovery was made when reexamining fossil teeth collected by fossil hunter Dorothea Bate in 1904, which led modern researchers back to Crete and to further archaeological evidence. That a dwarf species existed on an isolated island should not be surprising; dwarfism is a common evolutionary adaptation that large animals undergo in an island setting.