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
:  You is my best girl.
Creator
: Curtis, Elizabeth — Artist
Additional Name(s)
: Raphael Tuck & Sons — Publisher
Notes
: Signature on image: “E. Curtis”
Permalink To my Valentine.

Notes
: Printed on verso: “Raphael Tuck & Sons’ ‘Oilette’ Rococo Valentine Postcard”
Permalink Wishing you a merry Christmas. (ca. 1910)
Permalink Noch’ pod rozhdestvo.  [[Christmas eve]] (1924)

Additional Name(s)
: Efimov, Boris, 1900- — Author
Permalink [Explosion on a crowded street on the Fourth of July.]

Notes
: Horizontal fold mark and tear at center.
Original Source
: From Collier’s. (Springfield, Ohio : Crowell Publishing Co., 1888-1957) .
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Image Title
:  4th of July.
Specific Material Type
: photomechanical_prints
Source
: Holiday postcards / Fourth of July
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Image ID: 1587806
Hallowe’en greetings.