Vila Wolf's Dyslexic Folklorist Ranting

25 dreamy Autochrome photos taken by Alfonse Van Besten in the 1910s.

Meet Maud Wagner: The United States’ first known female tattoo artist.

22 found vintage photos captured street Scenes of New York City in 1919.

Milkmaid with dogcart and pails of milk, ca. 1910s.

Site of Steinway Hall, New York City, ca. 1916.

20 fascinating vintage photographs capture women at work during the First World War.

Vintage photographs of male relationships in everyday American photography from before the Civil War to the 1950s.

Missouri more than 100 years ago – 66 amazing vintage pictures of streets in St.Louis in the early 20th century

Suffragettes in the early 20th century – Vintages photos of women striving for their rights in the 1900s and 1910s

Perinatal Osteogenesis Imperfecta (probably type II) and Blue Sclerae of OI

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), also known as brittle bone disease, is a set of disorders that involves the malformation or insufficient formation of collagen.

All types of this condition are genetic, and are present at birth. Types I through V are autosomal dominant, and Types VI through VII are autosomal recessive. Given the severity of types II and III, the fact that they’re autosomal dominant rarely comes into play.

Most variants of OI (but not type IV) display blue sclerae, which is one of the primary diagnostic criteria. X-rays showing multiple bone fractures in varying stages of healing are also common in OI, and the x-ray above shows many nodules where the ribs and arms have fractured during the antenatal period.

In the past, OI was often assumed to be rickets or osteomalacia, and in the modern era, child abuse is often suspected when symptoms aside from frequent fractures are not present.

A Text-Book of Pathology for Students of Medicine. J. George Adami and John McCrae, 1912.

The Harlem Hellfighters – Vintage photographs of the African-American 369th Infantry Regiment during World War I.

Street scene in New York, 1918

A welcome home kiss, Sydney, NSW, 1919

“Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that mill. When I questioned some of the boys as to their ages, they said they were 12, and then other boys said they were lying. (Which sentiment I agreed to.) Huntsville, Ala.”, 11/19/1910

Taken by investigative photographer Lewis Hine 105 years ago, this photograph is one of a series of black-and-white prints given to the Children’s Bureau by the National Child Labor Committee.  

The world in the early 1900s in color

Photographer and his assistant with their camera in a stereoscopic photograph, ca. 1910s

Death Jump – Story of Franz Reichelt jumps off the Eiffel Tower on 4th February 1912.