Minds of Winter

Prisoners with snow sculpture, Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, circa 1930-1938

Car trapped in snow

Snow Flake Bracelet by Erica Van Horn

Woman in a snow scene

Ogden Nash on Gertrude Stein

Ogden Nash’s “They Don’t Speak English in Paris”, ca. 1935, with his reactions to the increasing
fame and acceptance of Gertrude Stein’s writing (including a crude reference to the all African-American cast
of “Four Saints in Three Acts”)

The Sea-mans doleful Farewel

The seamans doleful farewel or, The Greenwitch lovers mournful departure : see here the pattern of true love, which absence cannot stain : and nothing shall his mind remove, till he returns again : this may be printed, R.P. : tune of, State and ambition. [London] : Printed for J. Deacon at the sign of the Angel in Gilt-Spurr Street without Newgate, [between 1685 and 1688].

Hot Stuff

The key card for the game of: Robert le Diable: Jeu des Mariages. France, circa 1820.

For our God is a consuming Fire.

A New-England Primer printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1764.
The New-England primer enlarged. For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added, the Assemblys catechism. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, in Market-street, 1[7]64

Q&A

Simple question; complicated answer.
From an unidentified card game from France, circa 1860s.