#jack larkin

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Evadne Price - She stargazes - Ebury Press - 1965 (book design and sketches by Jack Larkin)

[pop-art-sixties-seventies]

Jack Larkin, 1966.

[aranazo]

The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood with a Jack Larkin cover.

[intheheatherbright]

Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy, African Writers Series no. 29 (HEB: London, 1977 [1966]). First published in France as Une Vie de Boy, 1960. Cover drawing by Jack Larkin.

[idratherdreamofjune]

Men gathered there, sometimes late into the evening, and 'compared the girths of cattle; made note of prices, forestalled the weather; praised the work of wives and daughters.'"

contemporary observance of Lyndon Freeman, describing country stores of the early 1800s. As quoted in Jack Larkin’s The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840.

Lovely! Proverbs 31:31 in action.

[idratherdreamofjune]

Although the United States had established a decimal currency in 1793, many rural Americans into the 1820s continued to think in terms of the disused English pounds, shillings, and pence... The actual coins which Americans used were usually not their own country's currency at all. Before gold was discovered in California in 1849, the federal mint did not coin enough precious metal. A bewildering variety of foreign coins circulated: Dutch rix-dollars, Russian kopeckes, as well as French and English specie. With the variegated coinage, the need to state final amounts in US currency, and "the traditional but imaginary shillings," as Underwood noted, "there was a rare confusion."

The Reshaping of Everyday Life, Jack Larkin

[idratherdreamofjune]

Susan Blunt left a description of what she was able to do "When I was about ten" in the 1830s. Her mother, she recalled, "let me go and keep house... for a week" for a family living a mile away, with "twin little girls and an aged father to leave in my care." Young Susan had complete charge of the household; her mother had told her to "work like a little spider." She got up at 5 o'clock to begin her day's work... For this impressive display of youthful female competence, cooking, cleaning, mending, and caring for young and old, Susan received about fifteen cents, which she used to buy a new calico apron.

The Reshaping of Everyday Life, Jack Larkin Well... this makes me feel inadequate! I love the directions from her mother. "Work like a little spider." :)

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