Adventures of the Blackgang

so, a naval store isn’t where you go to get a new belly button?

mudwerks:

(via Piney Goods: 1904 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive)

Georgia circa 1904. “Naval stores, Chesnutt & O’Neill, Savannah.” A center of the resin and turpentine, or naval stores, industry. View full size.

(via mudwerks)

mudwerks:

(via Gandalf’s Gallery: Adolph Menzel -The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes) [1872-75])

(via mudwerks)

art-history:

Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927. Oil on fiberboard, 35¾ x 30 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

(via art-history)

Empire Builders

Description: “Empire Builders” by Fred Taylor for the Empire Marketing Board. Date: c. 1930