Jen Eggleston (aka RandomlyGenerated)
@RandomlyGen
History nerd and occasional illustrator
You might like
Hi #AncestryHour! I'm another person who has flown away to sunnier skies (still RandomlyGen though). Hopefully see lots of you over there on Thursday for #GenHour
As part of our tour of My Mother's Funeral: The Show by @KMJwriter, join Charlotte Bennett, Evie King and Roy Alexander Weise for a wide-ranging online chat called Death, Money and Art. Mon 23 Sep at 6.30-7.45pm. Click here to find out more and register: bit.ly/deathmoneyartc…
Can any @WikiTreers help reunite these ashes with family? Or #AncestryHour folk?
If you’re looking for me, I’ll always be at www. randomlygenerated. ca, but Substack is probably the best place to get sent regular updates open.substack.com/pub/randomlyge…
Happy birthday @CityofVancouver! Incorporated 138 years ago today (then burnt down two months later) Photo from the @VanArchives - looking up Water Street from Carrall
You should wear purple a conversation with a woman that struck me (3/14)
Welcome to my Christmas gift guide! An advent calendar of festive presents to share with your loved ones. First off, we have the perfect items for the ladies in your life. And as a bonus, the packages are the same size 🎄
LOVED Nimona. And my daughter immediately ran out to do some chalk drawing. Thank you @Gingerhazing!
Colour + Procreate + Pride = #100DaysProjectScotland2023 I'll be posting on instagram.com/randomlygen/ every day
Yay for Betsy! She was a buyer for department stores and travelled all over North America to find the latest styles. And she bought the first ticket for the first flight of Canada’s first transcontinental air service ✈ randomlygenerated.ca/blogs/canadian…
randomlygenerated.ca
Canadian Aviatrix #27 – Betsy Flaherty (1881-1968)
Born Elizabeth McAleer on 10 June 1881 in Grey, Ontario, to James Brown McAleer (a farmer) and Mary Jane Wilson. 1891 census Grey ON James 45 Mary 40 Nancy 14 Robert 12 Elizabeth 9 Albert 7 Walter...
Elizabeth Flaherty received her pilot's licence in '31 & was on the executive of the Women's Flying Club of Vancouver (aka the "Flying Seven") in the 1930s. Here is a photo of her pilot's licence. ow.ly/FQfv50NRQFO #VanArchives90th #FlyingSeven #ElizabethFlaherty
It helps to have a willing model when you’re playing with rotoscoping 🎨
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. My grandad, born in 1898, was none of these. But what he was, was a walker. 🧵
Thanks @ScientistSoph for adding my Canadian Aviatrix Project to her look at aviators today ✈️ randomlygenerated.ca/blogs/family-t…
Elizabeth Flaherty received her pilot's licence in '31 & was on the executive of the Women's Flying Club of Vancouver (aka the "Flying Seven") in the 1930s. Here is a photo of her pilot's licence. ow.ly/FQfv50NRQFO #VanArchives90th #FlyingSeven #ElizabethFlaherty
Pro tip when writing image descriptions for folks: You're not writing a professional newspaper caption of a stock photo. Just let blind and low vision users know what they might wanna see! For example:
United States Trends
- 1. #JUNGKOOKxHUBLOT N/A
- 2. $Pigeon N/A
- 3. #LittleMissDramaTour N/A
- 4. #AEWDynamite N/A
- 5. Culver City N/A
- 6. Vulcan N/A
- 7. Ciampa N/A
- 8. Thekla N/A
- 9. Cam Thomas N/A
- 10. The French N/A
- 11. Fletcher N/A
- 12. Hasan N/A
- 13. Bates N/A
- 14. The Dow N/A
- 15. #LoveIsBlind N/A
- 16. Spring Festival N/A
- 17. Leon Black N/A
- 18. Jerome Tang N/A
- 19. Jose Alvarado N/A
- 20. Vote YES N/A
Something went wrong.
Something went wrong.