Viewmaster Dracula
It’s the story of Dracula, one slide at a time! “View-Master World presents all 21 scenes from the View-Master packet Dracula (B324) with restored color and the original captions!” (Thanks, Ian!)
It’s the story of Dracula, one slide at a time! “View-Master World presents all 21 scenes from the View-Master packet Dracula (B324) with restored color and the original captions!” (Thanks, Ian!)
At The Awl, Evan Hughes looks at the life of Harold von Braunhut, inventor of Sea-Monkeys, brine shrimp marketed as a totally amazing civilization you could grow in a fishbowl. And, well, there’s a lot more to tell. “Von Braunhut was a wellspring of ideas, and some of […]
“The Battle over the Sea-Monkey Fortune” involves “Big Time Toys,” brine shrimp, and the daughter of an opera maestro, Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut. Braunhut also starred in the 1967 film, Venus In Furs. (via PeeWee.com)
Jackie Ormes drew comics for Black newspapers from the 1930s through the 1950s. She was popular and well known, even friends with people like Lena Horne, who might’ve influenced her most famous creation, Torchy Brown, and Eartha Kitt. But Ormes disappeared like so many talented women and men […]