A Balinese shadow puppet figure representing a pistol, 1978, from our new work of short fiction “A Satisfying View.”
A self-portrait by Captain Cook’s navigator Tupaia showing his gift of a lobster. Read more in Marissa Nicosia’s “Lobsters in the Archive.”
How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the domestic ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation. Read more.
An image from Bernard Rudofsky’s criminally underrated 1948 book Are Clothes Modern?
Another historical cooking blog, courtesy of a reader. I find things, my readers find more. Go have a read!
Kate Beaton recommends “Cooking in the Archives,"a project co-founded by Appendix contributing editor Marissa Nicosia.
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Late 19th century, advertising cards, found while searching for late 19th century / early 20th century Halloween images. I’m not entirely certain that the cultural connotations associated with these advertisements has been transmitted correctly.
From the Noel Wisdom Collection of Chromolithographs, University of South Florida.
The strangest gravestone in Jamaica and the man it commemorates. Read more here.
Introducing “In Motion,” the 8th issue of the Appendix. Read about it here.
Soviet Russia: the first country to send pistols and machetes into space.