June 24, 2026

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 hours ago

Is that a sock?

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
14 hours ago

That or a sweater.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

We can’t tell what it is, but I’m pretty sure we can tell what it isn’t.

Which would be…. a dog toy.

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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

Linus? Linus Van Pelt?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

This is from the period, approximately mid-1920s through mid-1930s, when Neysa McMein did all the cover paintings for McCall’s.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

“Bamboo-made” is odd phrasing… hopefully ESL, not AI.

DancingBuffalo
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14 hours ago

Did someone say “cheese”?

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

A waggly Mohawk?!?

SusanSunshine
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9 hours ago

One of my all-time favorite posters, painted in 1897 by one of masters of Art Nouveau design, Alphonse Mucha.

Its light in my heart is not even dimmed by the repeated viewing caused by its being hung in approximately 33.72% of college dorm rooms and perhaps a slightly higher percentage of young adult households, say 41.03%, during the entire period 1961 through 1979…

(in many cases starting in the former and following its owner through successive Berkeley apartments until it met its tattered demise in a leaky cabin on the Russian River…. cough…. I mean…. um… or something like that, of course.)

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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

That’s a great scattering of freckles. The photographer didn’t try to hide those freckles with lights from a collander, like the woman from a few days ago. However, sunscreen, sunscreen, sunscreen!

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

Don’t worry about their safety…. they’re statues.

In downtown Singapore, they’re part of the People of the River Statues series along the Singapore River.

“First Generation” “depicts five early immigrant boys jumping into the water.”

No… I don’t know where they immigrated from.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

Regent St London, in 1910.

To the right you can see the head office of The London Stereoscopic Company, whose photographers were responsible for a lot of the images of the time, many sold as stereoscope and “magic lantern” slides.

I want to know what that vehicle is in the center, that looks like three stuck together… Also, the tall, short ones on the left.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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12 minutes ago

The vehicles in the middle are all parked, and I suspect that, like the ones on the left, are ‘Hackney Carriages’ of one sort of another. It wouldn’t make sense for the general public to park like that. but it would for Taxies.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

Found it!

mr_sherman
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Reply to  JP Steve
15 hours ago

Same here.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 hours ago

Found it.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

Easy.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

It’s not exactly hiding, is it?

meadowmary
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 hours ago

found it!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

Spoiler
Marilyn? Is that you??

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

No,

It’s…

Mamie Van Doren, in a scene from the 1959 ”Girls, Guns & Gangsters

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

Ratcatchers. I wonder if they got paid by the head? They look like they’ve been eating well.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

So when do they get bare?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  JP Steve
11 hours ago

Mary had a little lamb,
She also had a bear,
I’ve often seen her little lamb,
But I’ve never seen her bear…..

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

They should consult a doctor about that.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

Shame on you people!

These are young girls, not women, though the last is obviously a bit older than the others. I saw the first one in another photo, where she was said to be nine years old.

One site said they were all sisters, but I didn’t find any corroboration of that elsewhere.

They were performers in Hanneford’s Canadian circus, when it toured Ireland, photographed in 1910 by H.F. Cooper, in Strabane.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
9 hours ago

Very well-developed then.

meadowmary
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 hours ago

Maybe the last one is the mother

JP Steve
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16 hours ago

Am I weird? The beetle posters were the best part of the Beatles’ song!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
9 hours ago

Are those two sentences related?
I mean, do I have to consider the statement when I answer the question?

baconboycamper
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 hours ago

I get it (your comment). The posters depicting beetles.
So, are you an entomologist or a coleopterist?

DancingBuffalo
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14 hours ago

In stark contrast to yesterday’s “flat basset”, I am pleased to present the opposing argument in the form of “zoomies”:

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Arfside
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
1 hour ago

Definitely having a good time. Dogs almost always do well when they have a companion to romp with.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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11 hours ago

St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.

The view shows the inside of the new tower that was completed in 2005.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
53 minutes ago

Impressive from the outside as well. A bit north and east of London. Looks like they had some history with Viking raids and such. Is it near you?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 minutes ago

It’s about fifteen miles or so from me, I live in a village between Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. I was based in Bury St Eds for twenty or so years for work, so I used to see the Cathedral quite a lot. Heading west on the A14 the tower is visible, and I watched the progress when it was being built. It was a big thing in the town when they got the funding to construct the tower.

A lot of history all around East Anglia, the Sutton Hoo Viking burial isn’t too far away.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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11 hours ago

Zebra Finch.

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happyhappyhappy
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