Calling cards

Lonely this Valentine's Day? These 19th Century calling cards are guaranteed to score you a date.

Street gangs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other urban centers have various ways of identifying (or shall we say, branding?) themselves—think bandanas, hoodies, jackets, etc. As the book Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art & Culture (Feral House) shows, there are uniquely Chicago ways of marking turf and being unified with a group. In his foreword to the book, Anthony Haden-Guest reveals a particular form of Windy City street literature: compliment ca

Without Facebook, online dating sites and lest we dare mention applications like Tinder, in the 19th century, single boys and girls had to be a little more inventive with their dating game. And thus, the American 'escort card' or 'invitation card' was introduced. It wasn't exactly used in high socie

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Lonely this Valentine's Day? These 19th Century calling cards are guaranteed to score you a date.

"I am a millionaire's son, not married." Now THAT'S a timeless line!

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In a world stuffed to the gunnels with on-demand content, the concept of tuning into a specific radio frequency may already seem foreign to some of our younger readers. _Eyeball! Cards, The Art of British CB Radio Culture_, the latest offering from brilliant Shoreditch-based publishers Four Corners Books opens our eyes to the strange, humorous subculture of "CB enthusiasts".

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We Are Supervision has shown off a lesser known snippet of Chicago’s history: Gang cards. Apparently it was common practice ca. 1980 for Chicago gangs to put together their own business cards to impress, intimidate, whatever. It’s a bit of outsider history with a homespun aethetic. The names of the members are often included. We […]

In 19th-century America, 'escort cards' - not to be confused with the explicit sort you might imagine today - were handed to women by men who found them attractive.

In the olden days, creepy men would give "acquaintance cards" to women - Boing Boing

Victorian Calling Card