Calling cards

Lonely this Valentine's Day? These 19th Century calling cards are guaranteed to score you a date.

Lonely this Valentine's Day? These 19th Century calling cards are guaranteed to score you a date.

Lonely this Valentine's Day? These 19th Century calling cards are guaranteed to score you a date.

Street gangs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other urban centers have various ways of identifying (or shall we say, branding?) themselves—think bandanas, hoodies, jackets, etc. As the book Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art & Culture (Feral House) shows, there are uniquely Chicago ways of marking turf and being unified with a group. In his foreword to the book, Anthony Haden-Guest reveals a particular form of Windy City street literature: compliment ca

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Consider it the Victorian-era version of OKCupid

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These fantastic introduction cards were used in the United States during the 1870s and 1880s. According to Alan Mays, who collects them, they were “used by the less formal male in approaches to the less formal female.” We think of nineteenth-century courtship as being impossibly straight-laced and buttoned-down, and certainly a printed card inquiring for permission to accompany a young miss to her door is consistent with that, but the eager men found plenty of ways to work clever jokes and…

"Resting on right cheek: You are too willing."

In a world stuffed to the gunnels with on-demand content, the concept of tuning into a specific radio frequency may already seem foreign to some of our younger readers. _Eyeball! Cards, The Art of British CB Radio Culture_, the latest offering from brilliant Shoreditch-based publishers Four Corners Books opens our eyes to the strange, humorous subculture of "CB enthusiasts".