L’alalà funebre

A broadside by Gabriele d’Annunzio, commemorating his withdrawal from the Free State of Fiumi on December 31, 1920.

Hearts

The King and Queen of Hearts as judges; in The Nursery “Alice” (New York : Macmillan and Co., 1890), adapted from Lewis Carroll’s  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Featured in Juvenile Jurisprudence: Law in Children’s Literature co-curated by Morris Cohen and Timothy Young at the Beiencke library in 2003. In memoriam Morris Cohen.

Tart, Lobster, and Pickle Herring

Playing cards from a deck of “carving cards” printed by Joseph Moxon in London, circa 1680.

Facts relating to the only tattooed lady

Facts relating to the only tattooed lady : being a full and complete account of the life and adventures of this young lady, the only tattoed female in the world, together with many extracts from the metropolitan press in reference to her, all clearly proving her to be one of the most remarkable and rarest curiosities now on exhibition or Facts relating to Mlle Aimee, the tattooed lady (New York: New York Popular Pub. Co. [1886?]).

Radiotélégramme

An urgent plea from George Platt Lynes to Monroe Wheeler, on board the S.S. France, February 19, 1927.

From the Glenway Wescott Papers.

Four on a Bench

Fedor Stepun, I. I. Fondaminskii, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and I. P. Demidov – from the Fedor Stepun Papers.