Inversions

A theme issue of a French magazine from August, 1923,
focusing on the subject of “inversion” or homosexuality.

Le champion du monde

Cover image: Leon See, Le champion du monde Jack Johnson,

Paris : Imp. Paul Dupont, [1910?]

Eye of the Beholder

Eyeglasses worn by Walt Whitman

A brief article about Whitman’s glasses by Richard Deming was recently published in The Sienese Shredder.

Portraits of Professor Freud

Portraits of Sigmund Freud by H. G. Wells; from the Rebecca West Papers.

Party City

Montmartre en 1925 by Jean Gravigny
A guide to the high life and low life in a fabled section of Paris in the 1920s.
[Illustrations “de RM” – otherwise unsigned.]

With jazzy illustrations . . .

Instructional manual

Densmore, Yost & Co., The type-writer! : a machine to supersede the pen.
New York : Densmore, Yost & co., [1875?]

 

Loie and who?

Loie Fuller

 and ???

 

From a collection of  photographs of theatrical performers by Napoleon Sarony, ca. 1870-1890.

Strange and wonderful news

Four 17th century broadsides from Beinecke collections.
[full records can be found in the Beinecke Digital Library.]