General Robley’s Tattooed Heads
Added to the collection on June 19th, 2013
Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed heads featured in Barnum’s dime museum, 1883.


Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed heads featured in Barnum’s dime museum, 1883.

Vintage shadow box made in Denmark in the 1920s showing the life cycle of a beetle.
This odd and beautiful piece is available on Etsy right here.
These vintage photos depict fisherman with their world record black sea bass caught off of California’s Catalina Island.

A world’s record 384-pound black sea bass caught by Franklin Schenck of Brooklyn with rod and reel off Catalina Island, California, on August 17, 1900.

World record (1905) black sea bass caught by John T. Perkins at Catalina Island on June 3rd, 1905. The fish weighed in at 428 lbs. and took 57 minutes to land on rod and reel. Geo. Farnsworth – Boatman.

A woman prepares to pull a child’s tooth with a pliers in this photo from the 1920s.

This is the world’s largest ever recorded kidney stone, removed from a patient in Hungary. It weighs 2.5lb and is 17cm in diameter.