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 Persian Shawl Merchants, Constantinople 					 					 	 					 	 					 					 					 						(1854)
Permalink Image Title:  Persiaensche Vrouw. (1714)
Medium : Engravings Specific
Material Type : Prints Item Physical Description : 19 x 15 cm. Item/Page/Plate : Ill. on p. 167
Source: Cornelis de Bruins Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie 
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Slavic and Baltic Division
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Image ID: 1263787
A Persian wheel, used in raising water from the Nile.  [Persian water-wheel, used for irrigation in Nubia.] (1846-1849)