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20 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Colorized by me: Children in front of moving picture theater, Easter Sunday matinee, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois. April 1941.
Original photo by Edwin Rosskam.
These were taken on the same day:
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This is an invitation to a Roman birthday party sent around 100 AD to a Sulpicia Lepidina:

"On 11 September, sister, for the day of the celebration of my birthday, I give you a warm invitation to make sure that you come to us, to make the day more enjoyable for me...
... by your arrival, if you are present. Give my greetings to your Cerialis. My Aelius and my little son send him their greetings."

(2nd hand): "I shall expect you, sister. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail."
(On the back, 1st hand): "To Sulpicia Lepidina, wife of Cerialis, from Severa."
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Ah, nothing more "pleasing" to the eyes than 1970s home decor... (Photo by Steven Errico)
I have a headache just looking at this photo. Imagine living in this house?
People identifying items and being reminded of their childhood home in the comments is the best thing about this thread! Love it.
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Now I'm pissed. I'm looking at this picture and I can't believe that World War I happened because of this guy.
That was when the curse began. You can't deny that.
I KNOW THE WAR DIDN'T HAPPEN >BECAUSE OF HIM< AND HIS ASSASSINATION WAS ONLY THA CATALYST YOU DON'T NEED TO EXPLAIN THIS TO ME BECAUSE DEALING WITH HISTORY IS BASICALLY WHAT I DO 24/7 AND I ALSO HAVE A BOOK ON WW1 PUBLISHED THANK YOU SO MUCH.

*sigh*
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Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1875.

During the Victorian era, it was common practice for the elites to buy those and then hold “Mummy Unwrapping Parties”. Mummies were also often ground into a powder and transformed into, for example, pigment.
The pigment known as "Mummy Brown"
In 1964, the pigment's manufacturer had no more mummies to grind up. “We might have a few odd limbs lying around somewhere, but not enough to make any more paint. We sold our last complete mummy some years ago for, I think, £3."
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Colorized by me: Captain Riley and lifeguards
Coney Island, N.Y, ca. 1900.
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Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an effort to reach the North Pole in a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass, with luck, straight over the North Pole on the way.

Spoiler alert: it didn't end well.
All three Swedish expedition members – S. A. Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg – perished.
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