Tusks Family Blog

May 30

popularhistory: Via the Ohio Federal Art Project, 1938

popularhistory:

Via the Ohio Federal Art Project, 1938

(via annlf)

“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

“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

(Source: sflib1.sfpl.org)

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May 29

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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?

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?

May 24

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May 15

“Sylvia Pankhurst gave as an example of sweated labour…the work of women whose job it was to rub minute pieces of wood into seed shapes so they could be added to raspberry jam made without the aid of raspberries. Outraged, she opened a factory making jam from real fruit at affordable prices to create jobs for pacifist women during the first world war.” — “Chalk and Cheese” http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/focus/story/0„956600,00.html (via fourpoundsflour)

womanzine: A collage by Tess Dworman, from Womanzine CULT

womanzine:

A collage by Tess Dworman, from Womanzine CULT

May 13

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May 10

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. 

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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. 

(via smithsonianmag)