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)
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Image ID: 802331
[Woman in green plaid dress and woman in shawl, France, 1844.] (1894-1896)
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Image ID: 1596691
Portions of shawls exhibited by Roxburch & co. of Paisley.(1852)