Why is it called Ovaltine?
An album of photographs showing the Ovaltine manufacturing plant in King’s Langley in Herfordshire, England (A.Wander Ltd, London & King’s Langley. Views of Works & Offices. 1923.)
Framing in Good Taste
A bill made out to Alfred Stieglitz for materials and framing of paintings by John Marin.
From the Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia OKeeffe archive.
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.
Wonder Movies
A curious production from the early 1920s intended to mimic motion in a book for young readers. Each “movie” is viewed by turning back successive panels on a scored page to reveal new scenes. While a bit awkward to manipulate, the idea works well enough to entertain and delight.
Wonder movies by Victor M Earle; Illustrated by Benjamin Seielstad
(Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1923).
La Tuies
A run of issues of a magazine, La Tuies, from Barcelona, 1923-1927.
Edited by Agusti Piraces, this satirical serial tended toward
the outwardly ribald.
Inversions
A theme issue of a French magazine from August, 1923,
focusing on the subject of “inversion” or homosexuality.
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 . . .
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities 
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