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Quand Homme Blanc couper beaucoup du bois, Hiver très froid

Comment ça marche?
Premiers WC (1871)

Invented by Stevens Hellyer in 1870, the ‘Optimus’ water closet or toilet was an improvement on earlier designs, flushing more efficiently and quieter. Raising the handle opens a large valve at the base of the pan and also turns on the flushing water. The flushing water runs for a time to ensure that the pan and valve are fully flushed. Keeping the flap clean was difficult but many toilets of this type were still used a hundred years later. Hellyer was a campaigner for better plumbing, writing the textbook The Plumber & Sanitary Houses in 1877. Made by Dent & Hellyer, this model, which was constructed for a patent application, was donated to the Science Museum by the Earl of Cranbrook in 1961.

Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty's paper, first introduced in 1857 as "Gayetty’s Medicated Paper", was available as late as the 1920s.

A la tienne Old Leather!!

Pas le chien!!!

Patriotic-Parade

Interior of Canadian Pacific Railway roundhouse, ice covered engine 30, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1882

Indian cowboy and pony
c1920

Ma pipe, mes gun's, et mon whisky, que demander de plus...?

Besoin d'une explication???!!

Early Hollywood

Probablement la grand-mère de Batman!

Un p'tit clin d'œil aux Campadre d'Alsace!
Annabelle dans cette tenue, non? .... bon!


ca. 1870-1900, cabinet card, portrait of a woman identified as Marie Stover of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, holding a cake and wearing a loaf of bread as a hat and a dress adorned with donuts and cookies, and pretzels. Presumably, she is advertising a bakery.

In the early 19th century, the Pennsylvania Dutch introduced soft pretzels and pretzel bakery businesses to Southern Pennsylvania. By 1861, the Sturgis Pretzel House in Lititz, PA became the first commercial hard pretzel bakery in the U.S., and by 1889, the Anderson Pretzel Factory was founded in Lancaster.

Forty Niner
c1849

Allons Aldo, tu crois pas si bien dire..........

ca. 1870’s, carte de visite patent model portrait of a steam-powered android attached to a wheeled cart.