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 [Man laughing, drinking & smoking] Source : Drawings, engraved plates, printed excerpts, etc. of tobacco interest from the 18th and 19th century, especially assembled for George Arents, Jr.
Permalink [John Bull smoking, with cornucopia, roast beef, ale, and his dog.]
Permalink Title (object)RotherhitheMaterialspaper Techniquesetching Production personPrint made by James McNeill Whistler Date1849-1874Schools /StylesAmerican DescriptionWharves on the south bank of the Thames from a balcony facing east; on the balcony two men sit smoking pipes; the masts of a ship l.
Permalink Image ID: 1660396 “… Old wife, most highly provok’d, that by the tobacco-pipe fish she’d been smok’d.” (1809)
Permalink Image ID: psnypl_prn_1050 Time smoking a picture. (ca. 1761)
Permalink Title: Where there’s smoke there’s fire Creator(s): Patterson, Russell, 1893-1977, artist Date Created/Published: [192-?] Medium: 1 drawing : India, red and brown inks, with watercolor on illustration board ; 45.1 x 59.2 cm. (sheet) Summary: Full-length illustration of a fashionably dressed flapper standing with one hand on her hip and a cigarette in the other hand. A stream of smoke from the cigarette forms a curving, twisting, decorative line. Part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature & cartoon (Library of Congress) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-01589 (digital file from original) LC-USZC4-5780 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZCN4-137 (color film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-119267 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright Office. Call Number: SWANN - no. 1634 (C size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Inscribed in pencil on verso: No cut made. No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower left: Russell / Patterson. Title inscribed in blue pencil on verso. Bequest and gift;Caroline and Erwin Swann;1977;(DLC/PP-1977:215.41) Exhibited: American beauties: drawings from the golden age of illustration, Swann Gallery, Library of Congress, 2002. Subjects: Flappers—1920-1930. Smoking—1920-1930. Women—1920-1930. Format: Drawings—American—Color—1920-1930. Periodical illustrations—American—1920-1930. Collections: Cartoon Drawings: Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon