This reminds of me Barrel Full of Monkeys

Thanks to gurdonark.

Hubba hubba.

From 1890.

I think I’m doing this series of posts on images of trapeze artists/ tightrope walkers because the word “aerialist” is so cool.

Aerialist wearing wings strapped to his shoulders and feet while suspended from a balloon

Between 1870 and 1900

This oddball mandolin from the 1920s is shaped like a boat anchor:

During the depression the government invented weird jobs like interviewing dead end kids about folklore on the lower east side of Manhattan. The following text is a scary story told by a child on the corner of 9th and Avenue C on December 15, 1938.

…the interviewer describes the rest of the telling:

The story continues on and on for over thirty minutes with the green hands murdering all people that come within reach. The climax comes when the green hands are trapped in a hotel where a fire breaks out and the green hands turn to ashes. Throughout the length of the narrative, the group of about thirty boys kept silent and listened avidly to every syllable and closely followed the mimicry of the story teller. Their faces registered the horror of each crime – as if they themselves were eye witness to the crimes of the “green hands”. The story teller felt the spell that he was casting over them and drew the story out a little bit by putting “new” victims within reach of the “green hands”.

Reuben Miller: Great Vintage Ammunition Packaging:

Via the Dieline