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Friday, August 26, 2011

Ilion

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For most of this summer I've been devoting this space to looking at images and inscriptions from some century-old postcards, trying to ...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

New pastures

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These photographic postcards, issued by the Rotograph Co., were sent as New Year's greetings. The sender is unidentified, but the inscri...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Mr. Greenawalt's world

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This is a moderately interesting postcard view of the City Hall Park in lower Manhattan area looking with the East River and Brooklyn in the...
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Saturday, August 06, 2011

Buildings and inscriptions

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These four postcards were each sent to unmarried women members of the Bergin family at their address on Canonbury Road in Jamaica, Queens. ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

"The juiciest lemon I ever struck"

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

Notes for a Commonplace Book (9)

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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 ...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Cortázar and books

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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...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Bergin postcards: an introduction

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These cards, postmarked between 1905 and 1908, were mailed, with one exception, to two women who resided at Canonbury Road (now 90th Avenue)...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The Asiago Bunny

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The following story engages the two central themes of Western Literature, which are, of course, the possibility (or impossibility) of true l...
Friday, July 01, 2011

Babel

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According to historian Bruce Watson, when William Wood's massive textile mill on the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts was comp...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Central Viaduct, Cleveland Ohio

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

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Belle époque Paris boasted its arcades and flâneurs ; turn-of-the-century Manhattan had strolls under the El. This postcard, which was mail...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

There are some of them here yet

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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...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Postcards, continued

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Below, two more examples of the mutability of historical images, as filtered through various technologies employed in the mass reproduction ...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Bowery, looking north

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