For those of us who don’t work with them on a day to day basis, blueprints and schematics have an undeniable cool factor. In one sense, you can see them as visual manifestations of someone’s defining qualities, like the ability to plan ahead and the capacity to figure out how things work. [via Fantastically Complex … Continue reading Fantastically Complex Blueprints Of Plants →

January 1943. Chicago, Illinois. “Mrs. Marie Griffith, manager of the information room, at one of the boards listing rates to points all over the country at the Union Station.” Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size. [via Mrs. Information: 1943.]

Adrift in a sea of digital apps for every imaginable function, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. [via The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women.]