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

· 26/7/10 · Reblog

Happy Birthday George Catlin!

(July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872)

Things I Like: 

  • Keeping an “American” family on the East Coast and starting an illegitimate “Native American” family in the Wild West. Never the twain shall meet.
  • Being a famous traveller, painter, AND author. Jack of all trades or what?