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June 27, 2013 03:34 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dpBToiIOMHg/story01.htm
Thrift-score: mad, wonderful scrapbooks of 19th C Texas butcher who loved flying machines, secretsocieties
Robbo sez, "Charles Dellschau, a retired butcher in Texas in the late 1800's created a series of scrapbooks: '2,500 intricate drawings of flying machines alongside cryptic newspaper clippings filled the pages, crudely sewn together with shoelaces and thread' - it's an astonishing collection of mystery and whimsey with loads of drawings and plans for arcane flying machines, a secret society and coded messages strewn throughout.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dpBToiIOMHg/story01.htm
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