Vintage science stuff looks even cooler when etched in metal. You can find these copper and zinc pieces in the Copper Leaf Studios Etsy store.
Posts marked vintage
Isabelle Delle’s fantastic vintage-inspired collages
“Half & Half” anatomical models from 1810-1850
Birds of Aperture by Paul Octavious
In 1939 Frank R.Paul tried to imagine what life on other planets might look like. Given the limited information we had of each place, his imagination was free to fill in a lot of gaps.
Lifelike models of marine life by German glass artists Leopold Blaschka (1822– 1895) and his son Rudolf Blaschka (1857–1939).
America of the future imagined in the 1910s - 1930s
Derrick Method makes furniture out of old books
Charming map necklaces by Sherry Truitt Studios
There’s beauty in the breakdown of these daguerreotypes.
Developed by mercury fumes and fixed with salts, the products of this process are extremely susceptible to decay. You can see more of them here, or you can visit the impressively large archive of them collected by The Library of Congress.
These colorized images of women building war planes in the 1940’s were enhanced by Webmaster Dave over at the Shorpy Historical Photo Archive. Stop by the archive only if you’ve got lots of time to get lost in history.
Antique astronomical prints from 1877
Visit Fast Co. for 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions from NASA’s archives.
Vintage prints with a contemporary look from The Curator’s Prints Etsy Shop.
Visit the Thinx site