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detail from a page of a bound periodical from 1893
Shel Silverstein predicting ChatGPT in 1981
tbh i think this poem is better served with the *whole* picture, don't you?
bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental
A selection of birds from various 17th and 18th century calligraphy copybooks which were drawn with single lines to practice (and show off) penmanship strokes.
I think this would also be showing off one's pen.
"Look at me, my fountain pen is so good that I can draw a looooooooong smooth curved line with no skipping or dimming or glitching! Try doing that with your cheap fountain pen. Your outdated dip pen could never."
When you choose "I'm bald" on a poll this is what you're saying
Started using phone time to read library ebooks instead of scrolling and it’s made me back into the crazy voracious reader I was at age 12. i’ve been averaging a book a day this week. everyone delete your social media and get your ass on libby
undefeated.
~ The Whittier News, December 5, 1903
Mr. M. R. Hadley is out of jail and will sell 18 pounds of sugar to any child capable of carrying it. Otherwise he will deliver in seventeen minutes. Not fifteen or twenty. Seventeen.
This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN
Reblogging for cultural enrichment
bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-
From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic
I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.
Who remembers
Motherfucking Scholastic
Book
Orders
And then the magical traveling circus of scholastic would randomly show up
at the motherfucking BOOK FAIR
seriously the best ever.
Reading Times, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1930
LOUIS PASTEUR: THE VALUE OF BELIEVING IN YOURSELF - traumatizing children around the globe since 1976.
I read this in the voice of the kid from the 70s tootsie pop commercial
The Frogs tea party, St Nicholas illustrated magazine for young people, June 1881
Text Reads:
The Frog's Tea party
A Kind invitation sent kind Mr. Frog
To all of his neighbors who lived in
The Bog
He sent another to all the Rats
And told them he surely would have no
Cats
They all accepted; yes; every one
For they thought to themselves:
We'll have some fun,
Since our neighbor has sent
This invitation,
He surely has for the good of the nation
They arrived exactly at four:
There were dozens & dozens-
Perhaps there were more.
Mr. Frog kindly greeted each elegant
Guest
And sweetly observed they were all in their best
There were froggies in plenty &
Also a dog;
There were chickens & roosters; & even a hog;
There were swallows & sparrows & peacocks
As well
Who had plenty to laugh at
& plenty to tell
Mrs. Frog was borne in on
The arm of a guest
Who said: "Mrs. Frog; how
Superbly you're dressed!"
Mrs. Frog heard his words
With pride she did flush,
"I think I do dress well",
She owned with a blush.
The guests did come in through
The wide open door
And they ate & they ate; till
They couldnt eat more;
While kind Mr. Frog sat smilingly by
And thought, "Who's the happiest, you
Friends, or I?"
Half pastten struck from the
Great clock at last
And each froggie agreed that the
Clock was too fast;
But the clock it was right, &
The frogs they were wrong,
For the time they had stayed
Had been certainly long.
In a minute the host in
His night gown was dressed;
And taking a candle he lay
Down to rest
On his soft leafy pillow
He lais his green head;
And then feeling friendly he to himself said:
"They've had a nice time and I'm awfully glad;
(If they'd had a bad time I'd be awfully sad)
So I'll give them a party ten times in a year
To which they'll all come & have lots
Of good cheer!"
Mrs. Frog, Mr. Frog, good night.
Slightly obsessed with old things I find in books, like this 60s/70s picture of a girl who took down a grizzly?
It was in an old copy of "Das Mädchen von Treppi" (The young girl from Treppi) 1894
Who was she? Where is she now? Why the heck was she hunting a grizzly? Is this Legal? So many questions
Just found this sparkly piece of what i assume is wallpaper in an 1878 copy of "Little katy and Jolly Jim"
Some "charlies angels" trading cards and an 8c "antarctic treaty" stamp found in a lot of hardy boys books
Some letters and cards from University, and a shopping list in these 1930s editions of Nancy drew
