Remember The Maine Sardine
A 1960 Comic Book Published ByThe Maine Sardine Council(All Images Courtesy of the Maine Historical Society.)What happens to the people in a string of small towns when the industry that has been their...
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Francis Sartorius. (1734-1804)Four Frigates Capturing Spanish Treasure Ships. (1804)One Of The Frigates Is The HMS Medusa.(Image Courtesy of National Maritime Museum.)From Robinson Crusoe to Treasure...
View ArticleThe Library Of Congress And All That Jazz
Portrait Of Billie Holiday, For DownBeat Magazine, ca. 1947.(Photo by William P. Gottlieb, Courtesy of the Library of Congress.)Call it chance, fate, destiny, or kismet. Often sheer luck--good or...
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Detail From The Poster For The Brown University Exhibit(All Images Courtesy Of Brown University Libraries Unless Otherwise Noted.)True bibliophiles know that building a fine book collection requires...
View ArticleThe Elizabethan Devil’s Dictionary
Caravaggio, The Cardsharps, c. 1594.The word "slang" first appeared in print in 1756. Its origins are murky, but most linguists think it was part of what is known as "Thieves' Cant." This language of...
View ArticleThe Man Who Hated Comics: Inside The Secret Files
Despite The Lurid Cover, Hal Ellson's TomboyWas Based On His Work With Teens At Bellvue Hospital.Dr. Fredric Wertham Provided The Introduction.(Bantam 1950)In a move of great importance to an...
View ArticleA Pirate Queen Sets Sail To Save A Welsh Library
An 18th Century Engraving ofFemale Pirate, Anne Bonny.(Image Courtesy of Wikipedia.)The Isle of Anglesey lies in the Irish Sea, off the Northern coast of mainland Wales. Its rocky coastline offers fine...
View ArticlePrinceton Library Puts Art On The Map
Detail From: Jansson, Jan, 1588--1664."Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum."Copperplate map, with added color, 42 × 52 cm.(Amsterdam, 1650) (All Images Courtesy Of Princeton University Libraries.)...
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Detail From: Czechoslovakia, 50 korun, 1929. (Front.)Designed by Alfons Mucha, engraved by Karel Wolf.Collection of Vsevolod Onyshkevych.(All Images Courtesy Of Princeton University Numismatic...
View ArticleDo Bibliophiles Dream Of Electric Sheep?
DICK, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?London: Rapp and Whiting, 1969.First British Edition Of The 2010 Cornell UniversityNew Student Reading Project Title.(All Images Courtesy Of Cornell...
View ArticleVictoria And Albert Go To The Olympics
TIMMERS, Margaret.A Century Of Olympic Posters.London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2008.Covers of Two Editions of The TextTo The Olympic Poster Exhibition.(All Images Courtesy Victoria and Albert...
View ArticleA Roll in the Hay Library at 100
BROCK & Company, C.T.The History, description & price list ofC. T. Brock & Co's "Crystal Palace" Fireworks Ltd. ... ,London: C. T. Brock & Co, 1938. (All Images Courtesy Of Brown...
View ArticleSecret Neighborhood Comes Out Of The Closet In San Francisco
The Street Fair/La Feria. An Illustration From: Crossing The Street Tales of The Portola,By Kate Connell and Oscar Melara.(All Images Courtesy Of The Portola Branch Library ofSan Francisco Public...
View ArticleRadical Pre-Raphaelites Invade Delaware
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)Lady Lilith, 1866-68 (altered 1872-73) Oil on canvas. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935.Lilith, the subject of this painting, is...
View ArticleUntested Tranquilizer Circulates At Yale Library
Yale Law Library's Photo Of The Now Withdrawn Tranquilizer.(Images Courtesy of Above The Law.)The story broke September 13, 2010 in the online legal tabloid, Above The Law: Yale Law School's Lillian...
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