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 Image Title :  Funking the tax gatherer. Additional Name(s) : Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 — Author Holland, William, fl. 1782-1817 — Publisher Published Date : 1799 Medium : Engravings Source : Tobacco, its history and associations : including an account of the plant and its manufacture; with its modes of use in all ages and countries / by F.W. Fairholt [extra-illustrated copy].
Permalink [John Bull smoking, with cornucopia, roast beef, ale, and his dog.]
Permalink The tobacconist
Permalink Down Broadway. ([n.d.])
Permalink Image Title :  [Man smoking cigar in snow storm.] Additional Name(s) : Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 — Author Medium : Aquatints Specific Material Type : Prints
Permalink Image ID: 1107988 All the talents: Monstrum horrendum informe ingens, cui lumen ademptum Image Title :  All the talents: Monstrum horrendum informe ingens, cui lumen ademptum Additional Name(s) : Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 — Author Medium : Etchings Specific Material Type : Prints Item/Page/Plate : 244 Notes : following p. 238; monkey in a bishop’s mitre, one boot and one shoe, Pitt’s name appears in cloud Source : Tobacco, its history and associations : including an account of the plant and its manufacture; with its modes of use in all ages and countries / by F.W. Fairholt [extra-illustrated copy].