The Spearmint Kid: The Best Advertising Doll On Earth - Playthings magazine advert, 1915. The introduction of the Wrigley's Spearmint gum mascot. Grotesque - Animated - Has a Voice - It is Different
Head-games - First introduced in the winter of 1915, the French military set up papier mâché head decoys which were used to flush out German snipers.
Sound and Vision: Acoustic/Optical Locating Apparatus, 1917 - German audio-visual gear designed to enhance the boom and flash of enemy artillery thus assist in pinpointing gun positions.
Woman on a Paper Moon, c. 1910 - Postcard by S. M. John (image via printmag)
Tesla’s World-Wide Wireless Transmission Of Electrical Signals, As Well As Light and Power - Illustration and caption by Hugo Gernsback from Electrical Experimenter magazine, February 1919, article written by ‘The Man Who Invented The 20th Century’, the great Nikola Tesla.
A member of the Achille Serre Ladies Fire Brigade in London, 1916
Young Farmers, 1914 - Photographer: August Sander (via Galerie Julian Sander)
Shell Shock - A soldier in a trench during the Battle of Courcelette (France) in mid-September 1916 (via Viral Circus)
Andress and His Novelty Gift Shows Poster c. 1917 - Charles (Uncle Charley) Andress (1852-1933) was a successful magician with his ‘Carnival of Novelties’ show which debuted in 1872 (being one of the first to use the word Carnival in connection with a show.) (image via just collecting)
Life On Mars - Illustration by Harry Grant Dart. LIFE magazine cover, 30 March 1911
The Tik-Tok Man Of Oz - James C. Morton as Tik-Tok in the 1913 stage musical comedy written by L. Frank Baum. The children’s book and musical were a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz, Tik-Tok is a clockwork man made of all copper, who must be wound up with a key in order to move, think, and speak. Throughout the years since his debut the character has gone through many different representations - including a vengeful murderer in John Sladek’s 1980s satirical novel, Tik-Tok.
Mechanical Head (Mechanischer Kopf) - Raoul Hausmann, Berlin, 1919 (image via invaluable)
Skype Imagined - Ralph 124C41+ by Hugo Gernsback - Cherry Tree Fantasy Books No. 406, 1952. Cover art: Terry Maloney The story was originally published as a serialized novel in 'Modern Electrics' magazine beginning in 1911. In it Gernsback coined the term, 'face time.'
It wasn’t easy being a lineman. - View of a lineman working on power or telephone lines at an intersection in Pratt, Kansas. 1911. (via Kansas Memory)
The Developer Of Athletes: Softens, Fortifies, Electric - Chanteclair body rub advertising poster, c. 1917. Artist: MICH (Michel Liebeaux) (via invaluable)
Very mini-bikes - Young Swedish gentleman on The Edvard Petrini’s pedaled roller skates, circa 1910.
A woman models her marching costume for a suffrage parade held on June 7, 1916, during the Republican National Convention in Chicago. More than 5,000 suffrage supporters marched during a large rainstorm.
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