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"We met 55 years ago on a teen tour, and have been best friends ever since."
“What’s her best quality?”
“She’s loyal.”
“What’s the toughest thing she’s ever helped you through?”
“I don’t know if I should say this, but I’m going to. Fourteen years ago, I got lung cancer. Then seven or eight years ago, I got breast cancer. And now the lung cancer’s back. I must have set a record or something, because it was fourteen years ago, but now it’s back, and it’s metastasized, and the prognosis is not good.”
“She’s doing good. The chemo is working.”
“She’s right, I’m doing ok, and I’ll make it longer than expected, but the prognosis is not good. And I’m gonna cry now, but I’ve got to say— and I know it’s a cliche— but she’s been there every step of the way. Every appointment, every surgery, every time I’ve done chemo, she’s been there. And I couldn’t have come this far without her.”

natgeofound:

A swimmer from a houseboat joins women diving in Weeki Wachee’s pristine spring waters in Florida, 1955.Photograph by Bates Littlehales, National Geographic

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Actor boyfriend!
From the submitter howpaperrusts:
"Pantomimist" 1870s, tintypes of Fawdon Vokes, né Walter Fawdon (from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Fall 2012)
"[He] joined the ranks of the Vokes Family, a group of London performers who toured the United States beginning in 1872. Somewhere on tour, perhaps in Philadelphia, Vokes stopped at a portrait studio to act his roles before the camera."

beeandpuppycat:

sushi-lion:
fanart sources in order of appearance [x] [x] [x] [x]
Why Everybody Needs To Watch Bee and PuppyCat - A Presentation
Thanks sushi-lion for this presentation
-Cade

natgeofound:

Off-duty work horses trot across a dry wash in the Sierra Baguales in Patagonia, Chile, February 1960.Photograph by Kip Ross, National Geographic

My granny had a painting in her house over the mantle that my aunt had done early in her artistic career. It now lives at my Sister’s house. When this came up on my dash, I immediately recognized the horses from the painting. Ha! The landscape is a little different, but she definitely based the painting off this photograph.

fieldmuseumphotoarchives:

Check out this poster from 1929 telling everyone to come to the museum by rail.
© The Field Museum, GN90798d_RDN060.

Take the Illinois Central to Field Museum color poster of Polar Bears devouring a seal on and around the Field Museum. Research Design in Nature plate. Polar Bears on the roof, Take The Illinois Central to the Field Museum advertisement from Research Design in Nature, a publication by Field Museum Press by John Gilbert Wilkins from the Art Institute of Chicago, circa 1925.
print.
1929

bijoux-et-mineraux:

Quartz & Chrysocolla - Peru

mineralia:

Fluorite with Quartz from China
by Dan Weinrich

wasbella102:

Sea - Petra Borner

museumuesum:

Ezra Stoller
John Hancock Building, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Chicago, IL, 1970
Philip Morris Research Center Tower, Ulrich Franzen, Richmond, VA, 1972
CBS Columbia Records, 1953
United Nations Building, International Team of Architects Led by Wallace K. Harrison, New York, NY, 1950
gelatin silver prints, 16 × 20 inches each