“Carp”e Diem. It’s Friday!
Joe Freedman Collection of Philadelphia Trade Cards. 1870-ca.1900. P.2015.55.
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astronomers
Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, French translation of Jean Corbechon), Bruges ca. 1470
BnF, Français 134, fol. 169r
There are many interesting ways to injure yourself in Norway, and signs to accompany them.
(see part one: civil rights cartoons)
in the 1970s, america experienced an unprecedented crisis as those mean ol’ democrats ganged up on poor ol’ dick nixon
and now they’re doing it again!
it was all the media cared about too but nobody else gave a shit, nosirree
it’s all just words, see!
the president is squeaky clean, he’s above all these baseless accusations
they got nothin i tell ya, its all in their imagination and in fact they’re acting very irresponsibly
they’re just wallowing in filth, they’ll never find anything!
ok they found something, but whaddabout all those even worse crimes committed by those mean ol’ dems! why isnt anybody trying to impeach them
(huge thanks to
Pakled
and Rebel Bob for digging up the old-time cartoons)
We found this note while cataloging our copy of Phoebe Cary’s Poems and Parodies (Boston, 1854). The note is on the final page of the text and states: Nothing worth reading in the book #everyonesacritic
Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection
What is Home - Without a Bear. Postmarked October 27, 1906.
Addressed to Miss Mary Harris, Waverly, Va.
More tiny typography. Booksellers’ labels spotted in the past couple of days. How far have these books travelled to get here from Canada, Australia, USA and Zimbabwe (and Gloucestershire and Norfolk too)?
The book is a prime example of how the form of an object evolves according to its function. Humans can’t help improving and inventing, and books are no exception.
A previous owner customized our copy of The Life of Rev. David Brainerd (1834) by insetting a glass-covered daguerreotype plate.
See this and many other well loved books, on display now in our main gallery as part of our current exhibition, The Living Book: New Perspectives on Form and Function.
thelivingbook.librarycompany.org
doghead king
compilation of the travel writings (including Marco Polo, John Mandeville, Odoric of Pordenone, Riccoldo da Monte di Croce and others), Paris 1410-1412
BnF, Français 2810, fol. 106r
dee-zi
I wish the whole world was this gnome gif. I want to live inside it.
Source: http://mochimochiland.com/images/knittinggnome600.gif
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“ The tables are turned! #fishyfriday
Collis & Lees, dealers in card novelties, 162 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [ca. 1880] 1 print : lithograph tinted with two stones ; 7 x 11.5 cm. (2.75 x 4.75 in.)
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