Adventures of the Blackgang

Portland, Maine - Sailors marching past Megquier & Jones Iron Works at 41 Pearl Street; July 7, 1908.  Note Arthur M Hannaford Market Grocers sign far right.

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huariqueje:

Dangerous Work at Low Tide   -     Eric Ravilious, 1940.

British,1903-1942 

Watercolour and pencil on paper,

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notpulpcovers:

Hot Lead Pension

onceuponatown:

The Clarence White family in Maine. 1913.

grainne-nimhaille:

Aboard the U.S.S. New York circa 1896. “Ship’s tailor.” The dog is Nick.

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19thcenturyboyfriend:

Marins au repos, Etienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour

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thenewloverofbeauty:

Photography by Paul Cadmus

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navyhistory:

#swimcall - It’s a hot day out there. Cool down with these great photos from the Naval History and Heritage Command’s collection.

USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) holding swim call while at anchor off Capri, Italy, in mid-1961. (NHHC Photo # NH 97758)

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“Defense for Country, Tobacco for Society,” a message brought to you by the South Kyoto Tobacco Sellers’ Union.

An Eye for Words: Concrete Poets at the Getty

click that link if you want to read a bunch of artsy-fartsy talk about persistence of vision and blablahblah so gloopy and dismal that it even makes Miss Monkey’s eyes roll with its sheer nebulous pretension. I included it here because well, if anybody knows anything about horizons that get all blurry and seem to just go on for ever and ever, it’s sailors.

steammanofthewest:

Tattoo dime novel cover, New Nick Carter Weekly No. 335, May 30, 1903, “Nick Carter’s False Clew; or, Playing the Dupe for a Big Game” by the author of “Nick Carter” (Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey). Likely reprinted in New Magnet Library in 1930.

The Steam Man of the West

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rickinmar:

Nantucket sailor log diary. 1854.

rickinmar:

crew from Genoa delivering a shipload of salt to Gloucester in about 1910.

historicaltimes:

British sailors and their girlfriends, celebrate Victory in Europe day in a fountain in Trafalgar Square, London 1945

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