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

· 18/7/10 · 32 · Reblog

Title: Lock of Virginia Clemm Poe’s hair

Subject: Hair, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

Description:Lock of hair of Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe. 

The lock of hair arrived in a letter to Edgar containing a Valentine poem dated February 14, 1846. 

Publisher (Electronic Version): Enoch Pratt Free Library

Holding Institution: Enoch Pratt Free Library

Date Original: 1846

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