Posts tagged "history"
  1. 1 month ago 
    Sun-Maid’s website is surprisingly awesome. They even have a section where you can download free vintage recipe books all the way back from the 1910’s.

    Sun-Maid’s website is surprisingly awesome.

    They even have a section where you can download free vintage recipe books all the way back from the 1910’s.

     
  2. 1 month ago 
    The Sun-Maid Girl Many people want to know if a real person was the original “Sun-Maid girl.” The answer is “Yes,” and her name was Lorraine Collett Petersen. In May 1915, she was discovered drying her black hair curls in the sunny backyard of her parents’ home in Fresno, California. She was then asked to pose for a painting while holding a basket tray of fresh grapes. This striking image was first applied to packages of Sun-Maid raisins in 1916. Over the years, this image has been seen on millions and millions of packages and has been taken into homes throughout the world. The treasured original watercolor painting is today kept safely in a concrete vault at Sun-Maid’s headquarters in Kingsburg, California. Sometimes we forget that in 1915 there were no electric hair dryers, that television would not be invented for decades to come, and that automobiles were not in every home. Life was much simpler, more rural, a lot less hectic and sunbonnets were still part of women’s fashion in California.

    The Sun-Maid Girl

    Many people want to know if a real person was the original “Sun-Maid girl.” The answer is “Yes,” and her name was Lorraine Collett Petersen. In May 1915, she was discovered drying her black hair curls in the sunny backyard of her parents’ home in Fresno, California. She was then asked to pose for a painting while holding a basket tray of fresh grapes. This striking image was first applied to packages of Sun-Maid raisins in 1916. Over the years, this image has been seen on millions and millions of packages and has been taken into homes throughout the world.

    The treasured original watercolor painting is today kept safely in a concrete vault at Sun-Maid’s headquarters in Kingsburg, California.

    Sometimes we forget that in 1915 there were no electric hair dryers, that television would not be invented for decades to come, and that automobiles were not in every home. Life was much simpler, more rural, a lot less hectic and sunbonnets were still part of women’s fashion in California.

     
  3. 1 month ago  from vwkombi
    vwkombi: another beautiful advertisement, kept in the style of the original ads, to celebrate 60 years VW Kombi. I love the sense of humour and appeal to collectors.

    vwkombi:

    another beautiful advertisement, kept in the style of the original ads, to celebrate 60 years VW Kombi. I love the sense of humour and appeal to collectors.

     
  4. Notes: 15 / 1 month ago  from vwkombi
    vwkombi: And another advertisement to celebrate 60 years VW Kombi. They’re actually well written too!

    vwkombi:

    And another advertisement to celebrate 60 years VW Kombi. They’re actually well written too!

     
  5. Notes: 47 / 1 month ago 
    Northwestern University in 1907

    Northwestern University in 1907

    (Source: northwestern.edu)

     
  6. Notes: 490 / 2 months ago  from life
    life: It has been twenty years today since Pan Am went out of business. There was an era when traveling by plane meant dressing in your finest, pulling on the white gloves, and expecting to be swathed in the kind of glamour and top-notch service that you’d find in New York City’s finest restaurants. Pan American World Airways prided itself on prompt service, pretty stewardesses, and arguably the most skilled pilots in commercial flight. Come fly with us back to The Glory Days of Pan Am….

    life:

    It has been twenty years today since Pan Am went out of business.

    There was an era when traveling by plane meant dressing in your finest, pulling on the white gloves, and expecting to be swathed in the kind of glamour and top-notch service that you’d find in New York City’s finest restaurants. Pan American World Airways prided itself on prompt service, pretty stewardesses, and arguably the most skilled pilots in commercial flight.

    Come fly with us back to The Glory Days of Pan Am….

     
  7. Notes: 25 / 2 months ago 
    That’s a scary-looking dam, isn’t it? It’s the Vajont Dam in the Italian Alps and one of the tallest in the world. In 1963, a massive landslide in the reservoir upstream caused a megatsunami 820 feet (250 meters) tall. 50 million cubic meters of water was displaced, over half the volume of the reservoir. Think about it, each cubic meter of water weighs 2,200 pounds (around 1,000 kg). The waves easily overflowed the dam and crushed Longarone, a town at the base of the dam. There were 1,300 fatalities in the town, a 94% mortality rate. The dam itself survived. Today, the Vajont Dam still stands but is no longer used. Longarone has rebuilt and again has a healthy population.

    That’s a scary-looking dam, isn’t it? It’s the Vajont Dam in the Italian Alps and one of the tallest in the world.

    In 1963, a massive landslide in the reservoir upstream caused a megatsunami 820 feet (250 meters) tall. 50 million cubic meters of water was displaced, over half the volume of the reservoir. Think about it, each cubic meter of water weighs 2,200 pounds (around 1,000 kg).

    The waves easily overflowed the dam and crushed Longarone, a town at the base of the dam. There were 1,300 fatalities in the town, a 94% mortality rate. The dam itself survived.

    Today, the Vajont Dam still stands but is no longer used. Longarone has rebuilt and again has a healthy population.

     
  8. Notes: 2738 / 2 months ago  from ninakix (originally from whereisthecoool)

    (Source: whereisthecoool)

     
  9. 5 months ago 

    Liberia

    Liberia is one of only two modern countries in Sub-Saharan Africa without roots in the European Scramble for Africa. Beginning in 1820, the region was colonized by freed American slaves with the help of the American Colonization Society, a private organization that believed ex-slaves would have greater freedom and equality in Africa. Slaves freed from slave ships were also sent there instead of being repatriated to their countries of origin. In 1847, these colonists founded the Republic of Liberia, establishing a government modeled on that of the United States and naming the capital city Monrovia after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States and a prominent supporter of the colonization. The colonists, known as Americo-Liberians, monopolized the political and economic sectors of the country despite comprising only a small percentage of the largely indigenous population.

    The country began to modernize in the 1940s following investment by the United States during World War II and economic liberalization under President William Tubman. Liberia was a founding member of the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity. A military coup overthrew the Americo-Liberian establishment in 1980, marking the beginning of political and economic instability and two successive civil wars that left approximately 250,000 people dead and devastated the country’s economy. A 2003 peace deal led to democratic elections in 2005. Today, Liberia is recovering from the lingering effects of the civil war and related economic dislocation, with about 85% of the population living below the international poverty line.

    I’m a bit sad to read that Liberia is no longer the haven I always thought it was.

  10. Notes: 7 / 5 months ago 

    More from Wikipedia..

    The Estado Novo, or the Second Republic, was the corporatist authoritarian regime installed in Portugal in 1933. Opposed to communism, socialism, liberalism, and anti-colonialism, the pro-Roman Catholic Estado Novo regime advocated the retention of Portuguese colonies as a pluricontinental empire. Under the Estado Novo, Portugal preserved a vast centuries-long empire with a total area of 2,168,071 km2.[1] Fiercely criticized by most of the international community after World War II and the European decolonization, the regime and its secret police repressed elemental civil liberties and political freedoms in order to remain in power, and to avoid communist influence and the dissolution of its coveted empire.

    I truthfully had no idea a regime could be opposed to so many established ideologies all at once. And this was right in Europe in modern times!

    (Source: Wikipedia)

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