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Frank Desprez’s “Lasca” read by Harry E. Humphrey (1920) 22 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Edison recording of Harry E. Humphrey reading the English writer Frank Desprez’s most famous poem “Lasca”. This ballad-like piece, first published in a London magazine in 1882, tells the story of a Me...
Engravings from a French Ice-Skating Manual (1813) 20 Aug 2013 | 07:43 pm
Coloured engravings from France’s first ice-skating manual Le Vrai Patineur (The True Skater) written by Jean Garcin, a book praised in Honoré de Balzac’s Illusions Perdues. As well as the aide of eig...
The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson (1904) 15 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson collected and arranged from his writings; 1904; Scott-Thaw Co., New York. A book of posthumously collected extracts from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, th...
A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program 14 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
On Monday this week The Getty announced the launch of their Open Content Program which sees more than 4500 images from their collection made available under an open license, meaning anyone can share t...
Women having tea in Napier, New Zealand (ca.1890) 9 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
An animated GIF created by Okkult Motion Pictures from a stereoscopic photograph featured in the collection of the National Library of New Zealand. The photograph taken by William Williams shows his w...
The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse 7 Aug 2013 | 07:19 pm
In contrast to today’s rather mundane spawn of coffeehouse chains, the London of the 17th and 18th century was home to an eclectic and thriving coffee drinking scene. Dr Matthew Green explores the hal...
Carel and Abraham Allard in the Court of Momus 6 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
CURATOR’S CHOICE #2: DANIEL HORST FROM THE RIJSKMUSEUM Daniel Horst, research associate from the Rijksmuseum, explores the controversial collection of satirical etchings published by Abraham Allard in...
Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable (1838) 1 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable; 1838; Darton and Harvey, London. A charming little illustrated book for young readers, consisting entirely of words of one syllable. Housed at: Internet Archi...
The Belly of a Horse (1820) 31 Jul 2013 | 08:25 pm
Anatomical diagram from William Carver’s Practical horse farrier, or, The traveller’s pocket companion: shewing the best method to preserve the horse in health; and likewise the cure of the most promi...
The Life and Adventures of James F. O’Connell, the Tattooed Man (1845) 30 Jul 2013 | 07:20 pm
The Life and Adventures of James F. O’Connell the Tattooed Man, by James F. O’Connell; 1845; W. Applegate, New-York. One of the main attractions at P.T. Barnum’s 1842 ‘freakshow’ American Museum was a...
