CULTURE - VAULT OF THOUGHTS

“Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass. You don’t see it, but somehow it does something.” — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Enjoy the archive. But first, clickable thumbnails of just a few of the many images about culture that can be found here at the Vault of Thoughts.

Tlaloc, Aztec Rain God

Real Doll's first "robotic head system"

LIFE Magazine cover from 1925

Homemade Halloween costumes, circa 1929

Detail of Selene from a Roman sarcophagus

A few members of the Aqua String Band in the 2005 parade presenting their theme "Just Plain Dead" (taken from Wikipedia)

An Amorous Santa from the cover of Puck Magazine (1905)

Bust of Janus at Vatican Museum

Marilyn Monroe, photographed backstage when gossip columnist Hedda Hopper presented her with her New Faces Award (from the Detroit Free Press, 1952)

AMC's The Walking Dead

Froggy Went a Stabbin'

Satchel Paige (AP file photo)

St. Stephen's Day Mummers

William Gladstone as Faust making a pact with the devil, lithograph, 1885. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images

Elvira (photo by Matt Irwin)

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By Christopher Michael Davis