September 30, 2013

Envelope left in book.

Doesn’t it bear a striking resemblance to the illustrations of letters in the text?

From Children’s Letters: A Collection of Letters Written to Children by Famous Men and Women (1905). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized May 18, 2007.

February 4, 2013

Microfilm artifacts.

From the back matter of The Alchemy of Happiness by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali, trans. by Henry A. Homes (1873). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 9, 2006. 

January 28, 2012
Monogram letters and other doodles.
From the front matter of Rifle and Caravan: Two Boys in East Africa by James Barnes (1912). 

Monogram letters and other doodles.

From the front matter of Rifle and Caravan: Two Boys in East Africa by James Barnes (1912). 
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