ClicksyPicsWiggle animations and anything old timey!

Try to quickly summon an image of good-with-small-children dog, and chances are you’ll picture something adorably Benji-shaggy. Or maybe a sweetie-pie golden retriever, or a loveball of a lab. It’s not likely, at least not in today’s perception of the breed, that an American pit bull terrier leaps to mind.

But not so long ago, pit bulls were brought in as “nanny dogs,” the trusted caretaker pups to watch over kids.

Vintage photographs recently posted on a personal blog show off the breed as babysitter.

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Note that I am in no way supporting any of the subjects in these images.  They were chosen because they are historically interesting, and in some cases very sad.

I’ve always enjoyed seeing images of scenes now and then, and in fact hope to take a trip to Charleston before winter to do the same with some old Civil War images.  Sergey Larenkov has used this technique and added a twist, creating ghost-like images by overlaying parts of old images over the new.  The results are surreal and striking, I urge you to check out his blog here.

I’ve taken a little vacation, but will be back making animations soon! In the meantime, check out this post from BoredPanda. Lots of old pictures of some strange and creative inventions.

Pretty cool page, check it out here.

I thought this was a pretty good list. Be sure to check out the comments below the entry for more iconic images. Here’s one that wasn’t mentioned…