#historic dogs

[canisalbus]

They need a bigger bathtub.

[historicsaranaclake]

Image of the Week

Today is National Pet Day, so we're sharing one of the adorable pets from our collection! This photograph shows Dixie (good dog, center) with Eddy Whitby and Billy and Margaret Duryee. This photo was with others documenting "Happy 'Camp' Days" in an album kept by Eddy Whitby, tuberculosis patient, businessman, and eventual Saranac Lake mayor.

We love seeing photos of people with their pets throughout history--as long as there have been cameras, there have been photographs of dogs, cats, and other beloved pets!

[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 2020.1.1.62. Gift of Randall Baldwin.]

[yesterdaysprint]

La Cygne Journal, Kansas, July 8, 1876

[serotoninswitch]

[royaltea000]

Saw his stage actor and now I can’t act right

[greywoe]

Brienne said, "I remember a woman... she came from some place across the narrow sea. I could not even say what language she sang in, but her voice was as lovely as she was. She had eyes the color of plums and her waist was so tiny my father could put his hands around it. His hands were almost as big as mine." She closed her long, thick fingers, as if to hide them. "Did you sing for your father?" Catelyn asked. Brienne shook her head, staring down at her trencher as if to find some answer in the gravy. "For Lord Renly?" The girl reddened. "Never, I... his fool, he made cruel japes sometimes, and I..." "Some day you must sing for me."

[bigautomaton]

it saw me and it knew me

click for quality as always

[brickcollector]

I love historic photos of animals!! like yes!!!! you cared about this little guy so much to take a photograph of them but then!! someone knew you loved the animal so much that they donated it to a historical society!!!! that is the best thing

I say this as I am processing a donation that comes with 13 photos of a dog from the 1940s and you can just see how loved she was :)

[la-belle-histoire]

Do You Want to go out with Me, Fido? Alfred Stevens. 1859.

[canisalbus]

The Sheep plush has delighted me so much that I had to pause my work to quickly scribble a young Machete. please enjoy.

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[daguerreotyping]

Tintype of two seasoned sea dogs sitting calmly before the storm, c. 1860s

[sableeira]

whoever edited that bsd official art to make it look like chuuya is holding onto dazai’s arm will be put on trial for irrevocably changing my brain chemistry and making me so much worse

the original and the edit in question. this artwork really makes me crave a mid to late 19th century historical au where Chuuya is a swordsman struggling with changes to his job due to the meiji restoration and with Dazai as a detective/private investigator who hires Chuuya as his bodyguard when a seemingly harmless investigation turns dangerous. they kind of hate each other (as per usual) but Chuuya needs the job and Dazai, while he proclaims to dislike chuuya, is also very smitten with chuuya’s fighting style and temper (as per usual).

[originalartblog]

Another romance cover-esque piece, this time inspired by @honeybumi's The Tides Pull Us Closer, a skk pirate AU!

textless version and reference cover under the cut

Cover inspiration from the 2006 French edition of Kinley MacGregor's A Pirate of Her Own (Pirate de mon coeur)

[milkbreadtoast]

Oh my god.......

[henk-heijmans]

Children playing with snow in Paris, ca. 1930 - Corbis Historical

[sneez]

more of them :D normally i do not care for modern aus but the concept of dea being able to read books in braille and gwynplaine getting an autism diagnosis is so appealing i am making an exception. please do not tag as body horror or anything similar [id in alt text]