Dreamers Rise

All eight of the postcards shown here (see previous post ) were published by companies in Sullivan County, New York but have markings indica...

On the care of books: When in 1773 the Society of Jesus was ordered dissolved, the books stored in the Society's house in Brussels were ...

Nine years after Julio Cortázar died in Paris in 1984, his library of some 4,000 volumes was acquired, with the co-operation of his litera...

These cards, postmarked between 1905 and 1908, were mailed, with one exception, to two women who resided at Canonbury Road (now 90th Avenue)...

The following story engages the two central themes of Western Literature, which are, of course, the possibility (or impossibility) of true l...

According to historian Bruce Watson, when William Wood's massive textile mill on the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts was comp...

"A street car went through this viaduct several years ago killing all passengers." Postcard, the Rotograph Co., probably printed b...

Belle époque Paris boasted its arcades and flâneurs ; turn-of-the-century Manhattan had strolls under the El. This postcard, which was mail...

This postcard was mailed from Noboribetsu on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on May 12, 1914 and addressed to E. J. Thompkins in Alb...

Below, two more examples of the mutability of historical images, as filtered through various technologies employed in the mass reproduction ...

This tinted postcard depicts the Bowery in Manhattan, probably between 1901 and 1905. It was published by A. C. Bosselman & Co. of New Y...

The image above, hand-dated 1905, probably depicts the bell at the Chion-in Temple, which is said to be Japan's largest. It appears to b...

Julio Cortázar's collections La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos ("Around the Day in Eighty Worlds") and Último Round ("...