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Amelia Frappolli
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Mostly old photos, newspaper clippings, congressional history, and the occasional retro gelatin recipe. Photo by Matt Schmachtenberg.
Sep 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Perhaps... not everything should be served in a savoury jelly.

A short (and unfortunate) thread!

(Practical Gastronomy, Charles Herman Senn, 1894) Page of a book on cold entrees, with the following text: &qu Your options are:

Chicken salad
Meat with mayo
Meat in savoury jelly
Meat in savoury jelly with mayo

(Practical Gastronomy, Charles Herman Senn, 1894) Legs of chicken, masked with cold sauce, dressed in
Sep 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Can't sleep... guess I'll browse through "The Book of Bread" from 1903

(Owen Simmons, London) Colorized photo of a bread roll captioned "prize Irish Photo of a slice of bread, captioned "section of champi (The Book of Bread, Owen Simmons, London, 1903) Image of "bashed cottage" bread with a hole in theDrawing of a prize loaf Drawing of a square tin loaf of breadDrawing of "a good coburg" bread
Sep 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I had a really good time at @SPXcomics yesterday and everyone was super nice!

Very excited for everything I picked up! art prints, comic books and... Rhubarb's Cold Open and fruit zine by @rbivsart
Froggy prints by @cleanfloss
Uneaten by Sharks by @mashazart
Mothball & Snowman by kevinb_reilly (on insta)
Frog rodeo and mushroom sticker by @MadyGComics
Sep 16, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Would you have guessed that this Coca Cola ad is 112 years-old?

Let's (digitally) crack open McClure's Magazine from May of 1910 and talk about it.

(thread!) a coca cola ad with arrows ... I was flipping through this magazine on @internetarchive and noticed that not only the Coca Cola ad, but lots of other ads feel more recent than 1910.

But lots of them feel like modern by style and VERY old by their contents: ad for "night letters ...
Sep 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Here's the February 6, 1952, (and most recent!) precedent for the House adjourning "as a further mark of respect" to a recently deceased British sovereign (George VI). THE LATE KING GEORGE VI Mr. PRIEST. Mr. Speaker, I rise for Mr. Speaker, I offer a resolution. The Clerk read the resolu The House was only in for 56 minutes that day.
Sep 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This introduction to the "Eggs" section of the 1905 cookbook, "What to Have for Breakfast" is indescribably wonderful. Strictly fresh eggs come from the country sometimes with the I'm here to provide only 117 year-old breakfast recipes and parodies until a vaudville hook appears and pulls me off the stage. BLAZING OMELET Make a plain omelet. Pour over it rum, kirsc
Sep 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Thread!

(1/300) HOW TO COOK EGGS AND OMELETS IN 300 DIFFERENT WAYS That was a joke, but I might post a few recipes here...

("How to cook eggs and omelets in 300 different ways," 1900) Recipe for Poached Eggs in Savoury Jelly
Dec 16, 2021 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
You might ask, "Hey, what are those statues in old photos of the Capitol?"

The answer; a thread The East Front of the US Capitol with red arrows pointing at I've been contemplating writing about these for some time, but haven't gotten around to it because frankly, it's pretty upsetting!

Apr 13, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Honestly surprised that the "sitting-out bags"of the early 1900s didn't make a reappearance during this pandemic winter.

thread with more below!

(Jessie Tarbox Beals, c. 1900-1920) Boy wearing coat with attac... These ensembles (composed of thick layers and a warm soapstone under the feet during winter) were made for children attending open-air schools.

The schools were for children who were either exposed to tuberculosis or were likely to catch it.

(Jessie Tarbox Beals, c. 1900-1920) Children knitting? and weav...
Apr 5, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
(Crow Fair Rodeo, Crow Agency, Montana, 1979) A young person in a cowboy hat looks over their shoulder. Th The 70s vibes in this photo are extraordinarily powerful.

(Crow Fair Rodeo, Crow Agency, Montana, 1979) A young man and a woman stand in an embrace. The man wears o
Apr 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Me when the Library of Congress' servers are down: The newspaper database is still running fine, so I can learn new words like "yegg."

(it means burglar or safecracker)

(The Washington Times, Washington, DC, April 3, 1921) "Yeggmen Loot Cigar St...
Mar 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
People have hated the idea of Daylight Saving Time since at least 1950.

(Evening Star, Washington, DC, March 31, 1950) "running almost 3-to-l... This is now just a thread of historical Daylight Saving Time disses.

(The Wilmington Morning Star, Wilmington, DE, April 25, 1946) "Gallup Poll Says: Opp...
Feb 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Main street in Crane, Texas

(Left: between 1935 and 1942, Right: 2019)

It was an oil boomtown in the 1920s, but nearly 100 years later there are only a few shops and an abandoned dollar store on the busiest street through town A booming main street with lots of cars, a drug store and a A Google maps street view of a street with parked cars and m Sometimes "driving" around on Google street view is fun.

This time it's just bumming me out. A metal sign over an alley that reads "Welcome ENT NCE
Feb 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Time for more of Russell Lee's Farm Security Administration photos, but this time in ~color~

(Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940) A farmer in a field squints... Delta County Fair, Colorado

(October 1940) Adults and children at a fa...
Feb 7, 2021 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Russel Lee took thousands of compelling portraits of Americans for the Farm Security Administration during the 1930s and 40s.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites! A young girl leans out the ... Street scene in Danville, Illinois

(April 1937) Two men stand on a sidewalk...
Dec 24, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Christmas in Washington, D.C.

A holiday thread for you!

(Union Station, Carol Highsmith, c1980s) Santa Claus hats add a Christmas touch to Louis St. Gaudens' Christmas rush at the Greyhound bus terminal

(1946) A top-down view of the seating area of a crowded bus terminaLots of people attempting to crowd on to a busTwo soldiers waiting at a bus terminal
Dec 24, 2020 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
I'm calling this the "great images I haven't had an excuse to post until now" thread

(Woodchuck - Arctomys monax, 1874) a color print of a drawing of a wookchuck A color print of a drawing of a woodchuck Oxygenated Bitters! For Health!

(Advertisement c. 1851) Print shows a female figure sitting on a large ball with twoPrint shows a female figure sitting on a large ball with two
Dec 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Some gift options for children in 1918:

-tiny steam engine
-toy ice wagon
-"barking" dogs An ad for a weeden toy steam engineAn ad for a toy ice wagonA ad for stuffed animals Gift options for children in 1948:

-Cuddle panda and cuddle cat ("a loveable, huggable toy any tot would cherish) A black and white drawing of a stuffed pandaA black and white drawing of a stuffed cat"A. Cuddle Panda, a loveable, huggable toy any tot wou
Dec 22, 2020 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Old-timey bicycle photos: A thread!

(Man riding a bike down the Capitol steps, 1884) Photograph shows a man ridi... Before we move on, let's discuss how there is another man at the top of the Capitol steps waiting for his turn!

(You can't do this anymore, FYI) Photograph shows a man ridi...A man standing at the top o...
Sep 14, 2020 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
We all know John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, but who shot Booth?

Grab a chair and a strong drink, because it's time for a thread about the wild life of BOSTON CORBETT.

(1/) A portrait card in sepia of Sergt. BOSTON CORBETT. He is seaPicture is identical to the first one attached to the tweet And as a brief disclaimer, I am not a historian by profession!

Most of the information listed in this thread is from "Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West"
by Dale L. Walker.

(2/)
May 22, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
I am on a mission to find out which historical Member of Congress had the wildest facial hair.

The Honarable George Frederic Kribbs (D-PA, 1893-1895) is currently leading in the standings. The Congressional Facial Hair Competition is heating up!!

The Honorable William Alfred Peffer (Senator, Populist-KS, 1891-1897) enters the ring!