Lifetime Supply

Always a thrill to discover a new genre in postcards: Tobacco Warehouses. Who knew?

Japanese Artist, Swiss Mountain

“The Matterhorn at Night” (1925) woodblock print by Yoshida Hiroshi, from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Incense by Parrish

“Then the damsel took forth from her shoulders two pieces of Kamari aloes-wood, and took a bit of them, and, having lighted a fire in a perfuming vessel, threw into it that bit, and she uttered a loud whistle, and proceeded to speak words which no one understood; whereupon a great smoke arose… And she proceeded to burn perfume and repeat spells until the sea foamed and was agitated.”

— “Guinare of the Sea,” illustration by Maxfield Parrish from The Arabian Nights: their best-known tales (1909) by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Consulting Palm Reader

Photo taken in Burma by Steve McCurry

He Ought to Know

Cycling

Art by Fritz Rehm, 1898.

Larger Than Life

A sampling of theatrical posters from the Courier Lithograph Company of Buffalo, N.Y., circa 1890-1910; artists uncredited and unknown.

Ghost Ride

Photo of a Victorian ghost ride from the pages of Skin Magazine

Few Knew Him Better

For people interested in Hunter S. Thompson, this is an indispensable read. A really straightforward remembrance by Ralph Steadman, who was Sir John Tenniel to Thompson’s Lewis Carroll.

Wine with Haddon Sundblom

From Life magazine in 1942, at a time when temperance advocates were trying to outlaw beer and wine under the guise of promoting war-time rationing of grain and grapes.