natgeofound:

A couple seated in a living room looks out a window at skiers on lawn in Duluth, Minnesota, September 1949.
Photograph by Frank Hege, National Geographic

dekutree:

perfect timing

ucsdspecialcollections:

American tourists on street in Tijuana, Mexico, June, 1964, by Harry Crosby

From the Harry Crosby Collection

thecultofgenius:

Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, self-taught scholar and poet, passed away 318 years ago.

She was born in San Miguel Nepantla, near Mexico City. She was the illegitimate child of a Spanish Captain, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje, and a Criollo woman, Isabel Ramírez. Her father, according to all accounts, was absent from her life. She was baptized 2 December 1651 and described on the baptismal rolls as “a daughter of the Church”. She was raised in Amecameca, where her maternal grandfather owned a hacienda… (more)

thegifconnoisseur:

The Gif Connoisseur #249

rachelstern:

Air