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 [Assemblage of the Statue of Liberty in Paris, showing the bottom half of the statue erect under scaffolding, the head a… 					 					 	 					 	 					 					 					 						(1883)
Permalink The Statue of Liberty as it will appear by the time the pedestal is finished. (1884)

Creator
: Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor), 1861-1933 — Artist