Turning the Book Wheel
#7FFF00 or #DFFF00: your choice. From New York Plaisance, “a magazine devoted to places of amusement.”
TGIF
An advertisement for Doty & McFarlan “Fancy Papers” from 1877 in our Book Conservation Lab for treatment. This sample sure is fancy!
Wait, what?
Wouldn’t it be nice if this actually worked? I think we could all use something that is warranted to:
Cure Nervous Headache in 5 Minutes!!
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Promptly Arrests Premature Grayness!!
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Immediately Soothes the Weary Brain!!
An ad for Dr. Scott’s Electric Hair Brush in Forest and Stream, which we’ve recently scanned for the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
From the McGregor Bros. catalog of Floral Gems for 1896 the “inconstant beauty” rose. (via Smithsonian Institution Libraries : Front Cover SIL08-09873-a)
A bicycle month public service announcement. Are you insured?
Accident insurance for less than $12 a year sounds like a bargain. That looks like a heck of a bike accident and no one is wearing helmets! Looks at those hats fly! I hope the little kid landed on something soft. From the Springfield Wheelman’s Gazette, (1885)
