Antique Memes

Wanderings through university and library image collections; etchings, leaflets, prints, lithographs, relics of yore. Items digitized from before the digital age. Let's remember what we forgot. Lest we forget.

ANTIQUE - collectible old item: a collectible decorative or household object that is valued because of its age, the style, traditions, and qualities of ancient times, old and often valuable, of interest to collectors

MEME - a cultural characteristic passed down through generations: any characteristic of a culture, e.g. its language, that can be transmitted from one generation to the next in a way analogous to the transmission of genetic information

Permalink Birthday wishes.  [[Girl standing on tiptoe at postbox]] (ca. 1910)
Permalink [Two floral designs.] ([1927?])
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What can be explained is not poetry.

Permalink Image Title : Interior Palace Set Design  Creator : Mielziner, Jo, 1901-1976 — Costume designer Created Date : 1951 Specific Material Type : drawings Item Physical Description : 1 design : colored pencil on tracing paper ; 26 x 36 cm. Notes : 2 parts, with the top sheet cut out leaving pillars, heavier paper doors affixed to left and right. Note 2.) Anna’s apartment? Note 3.) Richard Rodgers project Note 4.) Rodgers and Hammerstein
Permalink [To market, to market.]
Permalink Image Title :  [The brownies’ snow man] Creator : Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924 — Artist Published Date : 1890 Medium : Wood engravings Original Source : From Another brownie book. Second book. (New York Century 1890) Cox, Palmer (1840-1924), Author.
Permalink Momoyogusa = Flowers of a Hundred Generations. (1909)
Permalink Image Title :  [Woman in green coat outdoors.] Creator : Moorhead, Irwin — Artist Published Date : 1895
Permalink New Year’s greetings.  [[Newsboy throwing confetti]]
Permalink Wishing you a merry Christmas. (ca. 1910)
Permalink Noch’ pod rozhdestvo.  [[Christmas eve]] (1924) Additional Name(s) : Efimov, Boris, 1900- — Author
Permalink In winter I get up at night… (1910) Children’s book illustrations / Book illustrations — Stevenson — Child’s garden of verses
Permalink A Cornish litany.
Permalink “I thought you were wrong,” he said in triumph. “You said it was nine! Stupid!”  [The magic foot-ball.] (1914) Creator : Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978 — Artist
Permalink [From “The Magic Horse”] Notes : Translation of caption: “She gave orders for the banquet to be served.” Source : Children’s book illustrations / Book illustrations — Arabian nights