amylsacks' photos

I, too, love encouraging mice and bugs to hang around all my fancy leather-and-gold antique books.

Front and back cover of a 24-page promotional published by the United Fruit Company (famed lovers of fair play and world democracy), New York, N.Y. (Originally posted to flickr on January 31st, 2011.)

Swatches of simulated silk and suit-swallowing sleeves courtesy of six sitting sheet-slitters! From the September issue of Harper's Bazaar .

Planes are a lot like house cats. When they show you their rear end first, it means they like you! From the May 9th issue of The New Yorker .

You can tell this brand was an-also ran against the Big Towel Cartel. They couldn't afford musical notes for their main copy OR a body for that poor woman! From the October issue of Better Homes & Gardens .

With slight text alterations, this mini-sequence of images also reminds you of how smart you were to spay and neuter those strays in the backyard.

Yeah, just get out of bed and back to work, Peasant! That latest Covid variant is all you deserve for not being rich!!

Always remember: no matter what century it is, going to the office sucks! From the June 9th issue of Time magazine.

"Other Fine Walter Baker Products: Baker's Breakfast Cocoa Baker's Dot Chocolate Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate Baker's Caracas Sweet Chocolate Baker's Milk Chocolate Bar-- Plain and with Almonds Jumbo Milk Chocolate Bars With Vitamins-- Plain and with Almonds Farmington Chocolate" And by the time I was born, the only "chocolate with vitamins" left were those bar-shaped laxatives and those damn "diet candies." :/ Originally posted to flickr on February 3rd, 2011.

I swear, it looks like they're serving "French Chocolate" with a side of French Fries for dipping. That can't be happening, can it? o_0 Originally posted to flickr on February 3rd, 2011.

"A vast amound of knowledge and skill lies behind the making of this marvelous chocolate. Behind the fine old formula, always so rigidly adhered to. Behind the expert selection, perfect curing and roasting, and the exact blending of choice *cacao* beans, and behind the careful extraction of that delicious ruddy-brown liquid which comes from hot, rolling crushers, satin-smooth, rich with cocoa butter..." [sigh] Y'know... I think I'm just gonna' to walk to the pharmacy and buy a Whitman's Sampler™. I can't work under this kind of pressure. :o

"There is ample proof that American housewives have known the lure and charm of Baker's Chocolate for generations. I have a worn little diary which belonged to my husband's great-great-grandmother. On one page she has written, '27 March 1798. Prepared sweet pastries this day, using the precious Baker's Chocolate purchased for me in Boston town. Rufus and Abigail gave generous expression to their pleasure...'" Yeah, thanks, Mrs. Ken Burns. Glad your day went well. :P

Other frosting types: Chocolate Butter, Mocha Creole, Bittersweet Chocolate, Chocolate Wonder, Hungarian (?), and... Clever Judy Frosting...? Your guess is as good as mine. o_0

"Chocolate Velvet Cream" aka Poop Emoji Stonehenge. o_0 Originally posted to flickr on February 3rd, 2011.

"Little cakes and cookies are for those individual moments, when guests drop in on us. And what a charming variety of guests we do have on these occasions! Small, grimy persons trudging home to us from school, friends coming in for tea, a group of young things foraging in the kitchen. And those crisp, crunchy chocolate cookies or those plump, little chocolate cakes just fill the bill. And isn't it a relief to know in the back of your busy mind that there is a generous supply of them on hand and that many, many more can be made with the least possible effort?" I wouldn't call my own kids "small, grimy persons," but that's just me.

Sometimes Mrs. Barton places a recipe right beneath its corresponding photo. Sometimes she doesn't. Frankly, I think she just likes messing with us.

19 ingredients in the fruitcake recipe (not shown). But none of them are booze. The angels play a mournful lament before hopping into that hole. Hoping to emerge in another dimension where they let a working stiff have some real holiday cheer at Xmas, if you get my drift. Originally posted to flickr on February 3rd, 2011.

Seems like the wrong name for a cake where the layers aren't, in fact, the chocolate part. But okay, Mrs. Barton. Have it your way. [shrug]