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

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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.

  1. toutplacid said: see the last post of the tumblr “book-aesthete” : book by Palmer Cox. Coincidence ?
  2. antiquememes posted this