Showing posts with label Holiday.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday.. Show all posts

Sunday, November 1, 2009

¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!


Muerte en cruceta; by Lola Cueto, 1947


La bohemia de la muerte; anonymous, 1958


El crepusculo de la noche, in Tricolor no. 35; July-August 1924


El Hospital Juárez - (Ironia); by Carlos Neve, 1951


detail of Calaveras televisiosas todo por un hoyito; by Leopoldo Méndez and Mariana Yampolsky, 1949


Levantaos de sus fosas, calaveras, que aquí se halla el mayor de los troneras; by Manuel Manilla, 1971


Levantaos de sus fosas, calaveras, que aqui se halla el mayor de los troneras, by Manuel Manilla, 1904


from Veinte años de vida del Taller de Gráfica Popular; Andrea Gómez, 1957


by Julio Ruelas, 1903


from L'ABC no 15; by José Clemente Orozco, November, 1 1925


from Don Timorato no. 19; by Hector Ramírez, Ram, November 3 1944

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all images are from the stunning book La muerte en el impreso mexicano / Images of Death in Mexican Prints by Mercurio López Casillas [link]
for more prints see Doce Palabras excellent post 'Diálogo con los muertos' [link]
also see Morbid Anatonmy's 'La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte (The Astounding Life of Death)' post on Joaquin Bolaños [link]

Thursday, December 25, 2008

A Christmas Greeting


Marcel Duchamp's stool with Christmas Tree (1907)

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Halo Shampoo Christmas Advisement (1954)

...Staring June Valli

(click to enlarge)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Death of Hitler

63 years ago today Adolf Hitler committed suicide with his mistress/wife (they were married one day prior) Eva Braun.



On April 30, 1945 Hitler, Braun, and fellow officers and their families hid in a Berlin bunker as the Soviet forces advanced into the center of the city. Around 3:30 in the afternoon, Hitler killed himself by bitting into a cyanide pill while shooting himself in the head. His and Braun's bodies were carried out of the bunker and unsuccessfully burned. Two days later the Soviets found Hitler's remains and performed an autopsy, confirming that it was indeed the body of Hitler. The bodies were then secretly burnt and buried in an unmarked grave beneath a paved section of the front courtyard. In 1970, when the territory was scheduled to be returned to the East German government, the KGB secretly dug up the remains and dumped them into the Elbe river.

And here, for good measure, is an embarrassing picture of him.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Picnic Day.

In 1909 UC Davis held its first Picnic Day. To promote the festival the students had Molly the cow walk from Davis (then Davisville) to Berkeley, which she did in 97 hours and 11 minutes. Since 1909 Picnic Day has become (what is believed to be) the largest student-run event in the nation. The 94th Picnic Day will be held this Saturday, April 19.



From the 1920 Picnic Day -


From the 1921 Picnic Day -


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Picnic Day site [link]
wikiDavis [link]

Friday, February 29, 2008

Holiday. Leap Year Day

1908, American postcard by August Hutaf. "The chance of love and money on a card celebrating a leap year."



1908, postcard. "Be Careful, Clara, that's a fine Specimen!"

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Ephemeron. Every Body & His Big Grandmother.

1851 Valentine's Ad for Cupid's Original Head Quarters, J. Shillington's Odeon building, corner of 4.5 Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue Washington D.C.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Holiday. Christmas Day Buffalo Dance

Christmas Day Buffalo Dance, San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM. (Photographed by Richard Erdoes)


Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Christmas Card.

From New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt and New York First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. 1930.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Thanksgiving Graphed.

Winsor family Thanksgiving dinner (1882) (Photo by Wm Rotch Ware)


Colorado National Guard Soldiers (1896 or 1897)


Thanksgiving at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, PA (c. 1879-1918)


Thanksgiving Ceremony of "Turning the Sod," of the New Masonic Temple, Detroit MI (1920)

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Don't Forget...

Don't be an Arizonian...Help save daylight.



Thursday, November 1, 2007

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Halloween Heretofore.

c. 1920-1930. Halloween Costume Party at Gates' Rooftop Garden, Denver Co. (Photographed by Harry M. Rhoads)


1934. Halloween party at the Hotel Allerton,
Chicago, Il. (Photographed by Jessie Tarbox Beals)


1938. Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp,
Farmersville, CA. (Photographed by Dorothea Lange)


1938. Wesson Teebagi and Nusray Hadayia holding squashes decorated with faces, Boston MA. (Photographed by Robert Keller)


1979. Halloween vistors at the Miller-Zatica Household, Paradise Valley, NV. (Photographed by William Smock)
 
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