Dr. Mark Joseph O'Connell 🏳️‍🌈☮️❤️

Mazel tov to Chloë Grace Moretz and Kate Harrison, who married over the weekend. Vogue reports that Moretz wore a Louis Vuitton gown that has me frothing with anticipation for the long-awaited return of my favorite historical bridal fashion trend: the "bridal blue" or "celestial blue" wedding dress!

A group of about 50 women and 5 men arranged outdoors in 4 rows. The first row of 10 women is seated. Everyone else is standing, all in front of a dark colored clapboard mill building fitted with closely set 6 over 6 windows. One window is open. Large text is painted on the building. The text that’s visible reads “TTING MILLS” The women are all quite young, some just barely in their teens. Many of the women wear light colored blouses with elbow length sleeves and long dark skirts. Several of the women are wearing large coverall aprons. The 3 men at the center back appear to be wearing work clothes. A young man on the left wears a waistcoat and jacket but no collar or tie. An older man on the right wears a waistcoat over a light shirt worn with a tie and a stiff collar. He is looking to his right (possibly trying to spot the person who just giggled)

For #LaborDay I’d like to share this photo of picture day at the knitting mill. Thought to be Pennsylvania, about 1905

Researching at the AMNH in NYC this week. The collections workers are so dedicated and knowledgeable as always. Northwest Coast First Nations galleries at the American Museum of Natural History are beautiful and thoughtfully designed. The power of the objects in the spaces is palpable. @amnh.org

A photo of the felt hat

WOW! A 2,000-year-old felt hat intended to keep #Roman soldiers cool in the heat of the desert of Egypt has been painstakingly brought back to life.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

🏺 #archaeology

Mood ...

Jorgensen wears an off-the-shoulder ball gown with a fur-trimmed neckline, lace overlay, and voluminous chiffon skirt with a choker necklace, large earrings, and glam makeup.

Worn #onthisday in 1954 by Christine Jorgensen--a former American GI who, two years earlier, had become the first person to openly undergo sex reassignment surgery--at her hotel in London, where she was embarking on a variety-show tour to capitalize on her controversial fame. #OTD 📷 Getty Images

A view into the tomb, showing various pottery vessels

A view into the tomb, in the background archaeologists at work

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization. 

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Wordsworth and Coleridge at the Coldplay gig

This organza dress from Iris Van Herpen’s couture show yesterday is amazing

Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)

A woman with short hair holds a sign reading 'I Am Your Worst Fear I Am Your Best Fantasy"

Donna Gottschalk, 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day March. Photo by Diana Davies, found in Diana Davies NYPL collection.

Tom Doerr and Marty Robinson cuddle on the floor next to an American flag

Tom Doerr and Marty Robinson during Gay Activists Alliance sit-in at Governor Rockefeller's office. Photo by Diana Davies. Photo found in Diana Davies Collection at NYPL.

A three-row necklace made up of over 500 beads, primarily crafted from limestone and jet, arranged in a horseshoe shape against a black background. The beads are irregularly shaped and strung closely together.

Fashionable some 6,000 years ago: a stunning Neolithic three-row necklace from Sachsenheim, dating to around 4,000 BC. This remarkable piece, which comprises more than 500 limestone and jet beads, is a witness to both craftsmanship and style.

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#Archaeology 🏺

What a good year for the roses...

Happy Dalloway day!

Book signing Lilac Time at the Rodeo, Dr Mark Joseph O'Connell

The folks who attended were amazing! Also the #chesterweinberg dress from 1968 made appearance

Happy Pride! 🌈

Amazing to give the keynote talk for the Seneca Pride Month 2025 kick off 🌈. Spoke on my Lilac Time at the Rodeo fashion & AIDS research. We had a Drag show & tie-dye party too! a.co/d/gt01yGh

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85 The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died

Loved Edmund White's writing and courage. He always felt like a mentor to me. Rest in grace ❤️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Happy Pride🌈

Do it!

I will be speaking on my Lilac Time at the Rodeo, fashion and AIDs research at the Seneca Pride Month Kick Off 2025. It is on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 | 10 a.m. to noon
MH1005, Magna Hall, King Campus.

You are all invited, it is SO great to see the Seneca commitment to Pride.
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My photo shows a rectangular, short-sleeved, creamy-coloured linen tunic adorned with contrasting brown bands around the neckline, down the sides, and along the hem. Length 123.5 cm x 115 cm. It is one of seventeen short-sleeved linen tunics excavated in 1906 by Ernesto Schiaparelli from the intact Theban tomb (TT8) of Kha and his wife Merit at Deir el-Medina. Kha was the ‘Director of Works’ responsible for supervising the workers who constructed and decorated the royal tombs in the Valley of the kings.

A remarkably well-preserved 3,400 year-old linen tunic with contrasting bands around the neckline and along the side edges.

It belonged to an ancient Egyptian official named Kha. Excavated from Theban Tomb TT8 at Deir el-Medina in 1906.

Muzeo Egizio, Turin. 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

An open book showing an illustration of an otter eating a fish

It's #WorldOtterDay!
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)

The cast of Star Wars without costumes. Harrison Ford (Han Solo), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), 1977.

Colorized by
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#WorldHistory #History

A terracotta figurine of a reclining dog nursing two puppies. The dog is mostly white with a rough, textured surface. One puppy is yellowish-brown, while the other is the same color as the dog.The figures rest on a flat base.

We all need a timeline cleanse!

Terracotta figurine of a #dog feeding her puppies. 500 BC-450 BC, Boeotia/Greece.
Terracotta figurines from this region during this period typically depict everyday scenes

Life without #dogs is possible but pointless 🐶🐕

On display at Antikensammlung München

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Admiral Nelson's coat from the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. It includes the hole in the shoulder caused by the musket ball that killed him.

Photo by Steve Vidler

#WorldHistory #History

My photo shows a mannequin wearing a brown-coloured woollen hood with long knotted fringe on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was found in peat moss on the island of Orkney in 1867. Organic clothing rarely survives. This woven hood is remarkably well-preserved for its age. Radio-carbon dated to AD 250 - AD 615.

Wow, the amazing ‘Orkney Hood’ is so well preserved it looks like it was woven yesterday rather than c. 1,600 years ago!

Found in peat in 1867, this remarkable woollen hood from Iron Age Orkney likely belonged to a child. AD250 - AD615

National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

Encoding Fashion, Decoding Identity: Patrick Kelly’s Southern Queer Esthetics Through Stuart Hall’s Theory of Representation This article explores the intersection of Southern Black identity, Queer expression, and Parisian luxury fashion through the work of Patrick Kelly, a groundbreaking fashion designer who rose to fam...

So pleased, my latest article “Encoding Fashion, Decoding Identity: Patrick Kelly’s Southern Queer Esthetics Through Stuart Hall’s Theory of Representation.” just published in TEXTILE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this c. 1928 white beaded flapper dress made from muslin embellished with white and bronze bugle beads. The front and back features a motif of cascading pink roses created using bugle and seed beads. Sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions. #fashionhistory

This reed basket is around 2,500 years old. It probably belonged to an Egyptian woman of some status and would have been used to store cosmetics, jewellery and other small household items. The super dry Egyptian climate has perfectly preserved an otherwise perishable item. We’re lucky to see it
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