Tag: Postcards

• “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” Edgar Allan Poe

  “In some Asian societies dating back to ancient times, and in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, fair skin was considered very attractive because it was thought to indicate wealth and high social status, as being tanned meant that one was obligated to work in the fields for one’s livelihood. Similarly, the powdered […]

  Adrienne Morris

  November 19, 2014

  19th Century Art, Quotes, Uncategorized

  1800’s, 19th century, albinism, Art, blogging, Culture, edgar allan poe, Fashion, genetics, Life, photograph albino, pop culture, Postcards, Quotes

• Heaven On Earth/Women, the Vote and Mark Twain

  “I think it will suggest to more than one man that if women could vote they would vote on the side of morality, even if they did vote and speak rather frantically and furiously; and it will also suggest that when the women once made up their minds that it was not good to have […]

  Adrienne Morris

  January 24, 2014

  Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, Women

  Art, gender, Mark Twain, Politics, Postcards, utopia, vintage, Vote, Women’s Suffrage