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"suburban kid, got no name" etc. I mostly post random images that I find in digital archives. No theme or purpose, but topics include Chicago, Ireland, London, UK, USA, music, social history, street photography, et al. Not a bot. Contae Chill Mhantáin

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SK@sk-76.bsky.social · last yr.

A woodcut from A Pretty Little Pocketbook showing the first reference to baseball in print, England (1744) Image: John Newbery / Wikipedia

Scan from a book with the page headed "The little k Play" over an illustration of three children at play. The text below reads: Base - ball The Ball once Struck off, Away flies the Boy To the next destin'd Post And then Home with Joy. Moral. Thus Britons for Lucre Fly over the Main; But, with Pleasure transported, Return back again.
SK@sk-76.bsky.social · last yr.

Three Castles tobacco tin used by the Swedish artist Julius Kronberg (ca. 1885-1900) Image: DigitaltMuseum this was my brand in the 80s, although it came unrolled in a green plastic pouch then

From source: Jar, cylindrical, made of sheet metal with a flat removable lid. Embossed text on the lid. Paper label pasted around the jar. The inside of the jar is lined with cardboard. The tin contains five cigarettes.
SK@sk-76.bsky.social · 8h ago

I just twigged the moral. Previously I thought it was still talking about baseball, and that the "Main" was the surrounding land, field, or village green or whatever. Instead it's saying scoring in baseball is a metaphor of the pursuits of the British Empire - "the Main" being, duh, the high seas.

SK@sk-76.bsky.social · last yr.

A woodcut from A Pretty Little Pocketbook showing the first reference to baseball in print, England (1744) Image: John Newbery / Wikipedia

Scan from a book with the page headed "The little k Play" over an illustration of three children at play. The text below reads: Base - ball The Ball once Struck off, Away flies the Boy To the next destin'd Post And then Home with Joy. Moral. Thus Britons for Lucre Fly over the Main; But, with Pleasure transported, Return back again.
SK@sk-76.bsky.social · last yr.

On this day (Aug. 4) 47 years ago: anti-fascists counter protest a National Front march, London (1978) Image: Paul Babeliowsky / International Institute of Social History

Protestors hold sign which appears to say East London Anti Nazi League. Stop the NF Nazis.
SK@sk-76.bsky.social · last yr.

5/n "...After much prompting from doctors and court officials the only explanation she gave was, "I guess I liked to see them suffer." Photograph appears with the article, "Alsa Calm in Confession," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 1925: A5. "

SK@sk-76.bsky.social · last yr.

4/n "...yelled at the girl. She continues to describe taking ant paste and the acid from batteries in the radio and mixing it with coffee and putting it on lamb chops, watching everyone but herself become ill in the Platt household..."

SK@sk-76.bsky.social · last yr.

3/n "...Nettie Stelle of 376 South Avenue Fifty-two and acid in the food at the home of the Platts. Alsa describes that her sisters Mildred and Murial would cry the days leading up to their death, and after they had died she felt remorse. Alsa decided to poison Mrs. Steele after she continuously.."

SK@sk-76.bsky.social · last yr.

2/n The archived photo has accompanying text from the time: "Alsa has light eyes and freckles, with short dark hair with bangs. She is unsmiling, wearing a knit shawl of some kind. The girl describes putting ground-up glass in her baby sisters' food, putting ant paste in the food of neighbor..."