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 Image Title :  [Man and woman in a dressing room.] Creator : Lowell, Orson, 1871-1956 — Artist Published Date : 1909 Notes : Printed on border: “Of all the ding-dog-bat —what in thunder men want to wear such things for is — umph — I’ll get that hook in that eye or I’ll eat — stop drawing your breath man, and swelling yourself up! Can’t you see I’m simply — hang it! — there goes my thumb nail, right off short.” “Copyright, 1909 by Life Publishing Company.” Original Source : From Good housekeeping. (New York : International Magazine Co. Inc., 1885-) .
Permalink Image Title :  [“If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web”] Creator : Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939 — Artist Published Date : 1905 Notes : Title from Irving’s text. Original Source : From Rip van Winkle. Illustriert durch Arthur Rackham. (Leipzig Seemann 1905) Irving, Washington (1783-1859), Author.
Permalink   A Southern Valentine, 1899, Plantation Sketches, Phillips, Jay Campbell, 1873- — Artist
Permalink Image Title :  [The brownies’ snow man] Creator : Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924 — Artist Published Date : 1890 Medium : Wood engravings Original Source : From Another brownie book. Second book. (New York Century 1890) Cox, Palmer (1840-1924), Author.
Permalink Image Title :  [Woman in green coat outdoors.] Creator : Moorhead, Irwin — Artist Published Date : 1895
Permalink “Woman Ironing”. 1904 year Oil on canvas New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Permalink [Watercolor wash of pale salmon white floods out from the middle of paper with a tiny head of Fuller with loose hair at the center presented on a dark green/ blue ground/ In the foreground an assortment of artist tools: palette, triangle, compass, inkwell, t-square, brush, paint tube, as well as a top hat, are animated with stick figure arms and legs in various antic poses of worship and amaze in the light flooding from Fuller.]  (1895)
Permalink A heart fully controlled by satan. 2 Thess.2:9, 10. (1898)
Permalink   Image Title :  The bubble. Creator : Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901 — Artist Medium : Halftone photomechanical prints Notes : Written below image: “In the possession of the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby.” Artist’s initials lower left corner. Original Source : From Kate Greenaway. Black, 1905) Layard, George Somes (1857-1925), Author. Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry) (1858-1948), Author.
Permalink [Carl Van Vechtens painting in oil by Martin S. Baber, 1906.] (1906)
Permalink Title: Prosperity / Kep. Creator(s): Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist Date Created/Published: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1907 July 31. Medium: 1 photomechanical print : offset, color. Summary: Illustration shows a hand labeled “Collections” with a pin, about to pop a big red balloon labeled “Big Business Orders”.
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 A fire on Fifth Avenue : burning of the Hanover Apartment Hotel.  [Fire on 5th Avenue : burning of the Hanover Apartment Hotel.] (1899)
Permalink An old time Fourth of July. (1902)
Permalink [Chéri is rescued by Princess Belle-Etoile.] (1909?) Creator : Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 — Artist