memoryslandscape:

“The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.”

—  Yasunari Kawabata, from Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006)

(Source: journalofanobody)

Students at Oxford University celebrating the end of their examinations (1976)

Lunch Cars (1919)

facesofthevictorianera:

Under the Eiffel Tower c. 1880s

Library of Congress

(via thehystericalsociety)

1950s style