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 Affiche pour le Concert des Ambassadeurs, “Eugénie Buffet”. (1896-1900) Creator: Métivet, Lucien-Marie-François, b. 1863 — Artist
Permalink Title: Prize fat cattle Creator(s): Currier & Ives., Date Created/Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
Permalink Title: A much-needed comedy element in the campaign of 1900 / Dalrymple. Creator(s): Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905, artist Date Created/Published: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1900 May 9. Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph. Summary: Illustration showing Admiral George Dewey as a circus clown, with William Jennings Bryan on a donkey labeled “Dem Party” and William McKinley on an elephant labeled “GOP” under the big top of a circus; Puck, as the ringmaster, stands in the background.
Permalink Title: Blue Monday Creator(s): Currier & Ives., Date Created/Published: [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand col.
Permalink Image Title :  The Water Seller Creator(s) : Mac Bean, Forbes — Artist Sutcliffe, Justin — Lithographer Item Physical Description : 52.5 x 33.5 cm. Item/Page/Plate : Plate IX Source : Sketches of character and costume in Constantinople, Ionian Islands &c. from the original drawings made on the spot by Capt’n. Forbes Mac Bean, 92nd Highlanders, lithographed by J. Sutcliffe
Permalink Title: Summer Creator(s): Currier & Ives., Date Created/Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1871. Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
Permalink Title: The Wick fancy hat bands. Cheer up - show your colors Date Created/Published: [United States : Publisher not identified], c1910. Medium: 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. Summary: Poster shows baseball fans in the stands behind the catcher, with men and women wearing hats with special bands. Advertisement for the Wick Narrow Fabric Company.
Permalink Image Title :  Kniga nichto inoe kak chelovek, govoriashchii publichno. Alternate Title : [A Book Is Nothing a Man Speaking Publicly.] Creator : Ivanov, S., fl. ca. 1920 — Artist Created Date : 1920 Medium : Chromolithograph
Permalink Image Title :  1. Leptoscelis Pictus; 2. Eumenes Abdominalis; 3. Centris Grossa; 4. Echinomyia Hirta; 5. Reduvius (Conorhinus) Variegatus; 6. Eristalis Cinctus; 7. Echinomyia Pilosa; 8. 9. 10. Pelopæus Cæmentarius Creator : Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 — Editor Additional Name(s) : Drury, Dru, 1725-1803 — Author Medium : colored lithograph Specific Material Type : Print Source : Illustrations of exotic entomology, containing upwards of six hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of foreign insects, interspersed with remarks and reflections on their nature and properties. By Dru Drury. A new ed., [..]
Permalink Image Title :  Ornament for centre [sic] of small panel. It may be regarded as especially a study of colours [sic] harmonious with the ground on which they fall. ([1876]) Creator : Goater, A. — Lithographer Additional Name(s) : Dresser, Christopher — Artist Medium : Lithographs — Color Specific Material Type : prints
Permalink Image ID: 1167914 Femme Bambara.  [Bambara woman.] (1853)
Permalink Title: The Electric light Creator(s): Currier & Ives., Date Created/Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1880. Medium: 1 print : lithograph. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-2280 (color film copy slide) Call Number: PGA - Currier & Ives—Electric light (A size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1824 Format: Lithographs—1880.
Permalink Image ID: 486131 [Two prints entitled ‘Autumn leaves #3’ and ‘Autumn ferns.’.]
Permalink Image ID: psnypl_prn_1038 Enfants jouant à la balle.  [[Children playing with a ball.]] (1900)
Permalink Title: Everybody’s friend. The happy little boy / the Kellogg & Bulkeley Co., Hartford, Conn. Date Created/Published: c1871. Medium: 1 print : lithograph, color. Summary: Boy playing with toy horse, cannon, and soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-3220 (color film copy transparency) Call Number: PGA - Kellogg & Bulkeley Co.—Everybody’s … (A size) [P&P] [P&P] Other Number: 8354B Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: 8354B U.S. Copyright Office.