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About the Blog (and a bit about the blogger)
Central Floridian - photographer, illustrator, and (occasionally) very bad writer. This blog is mostly for my drawings and non-photographic-related creative-ish stuff.
Central Floridian - photographer, illustrator, and (occasionally) very bad writer. This blog is mostly for my drawings and non-photographic-related creative-ish stuff.
Bellingham’s Stimulating Onguent for the Hair & Whiskers, ca 1870
DO YOY WANT WHISKERS?
Reposting this too - because, again, in the old post it gets squished.
And we need some unintentional dirty trade cards around here again.
More trade card goodness. I’ve made an executive decision that I can also use my tumblr for showing the images that inspire drawings as well.
Here’s a trade card that goes against popular thinking about nineteenth-century mores (AKA Divorce being an unthinkable option for unhappy marriages). At least - I’d like to think so.
But apparently, divorce wasn’t so unthinkable to keep advertisers in the late 1870s or early 1880s from using it as a way to sell sewing machines.
