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The Family Game (Cover)
Family Game. Emily Martin. Naughty Dog Press, 2003.
Cover. Folding out into a classic gameboard which winds around anecdotes of family life, this book approaches the institution of family with witty ambivalence. -
The Family Game (Interior)
The Family Game. Emily Martin. Naughty Dog Press, 2003.
Interior. Folding out into a classic gameboard which winds around anecdotes of family life, this book approaches the institution of family with witty ambivalence. -
Fair copy of memoir
French aristocrat d’Eon was the first European known to publicly change gender. D’Eon had been a successful soldier and diplomat, fighting in the Seven Years War and helping to negotiate the Peace of Paris (1763). When his lavish spending and insubordination led the king to recall him to France, d’Eon claimed to be a woman and negotiated a return under the king’s protection. The king required the now Chevalière d’Eon to dress as a woman. The Chevalière was considered one of the most accomplished women of her time, but she never regained political influence. When France entered the American War of Independence in 1778, d’Eon petitioned the government to allow her once again to wear the uniform of a Dragoon captain and go to war. This manuscript is part of a dossier of materials compiled in that effort, which was unsuccessful.Tags 1700s -
“Dreyfus à l’Ile du Diable,” (Dreyfus on Devil’s Island)
Devil’s Island was part of a French penal colony devoted primarily to political prisoners off the coast of French Guiana. Dreyfus was exiled there in 1894, and did not leave until 1899, when he returned to France for his retrial.
In this image, Dreyfus turns away from his book in frustration, lost in his thoughts, as a prison guard watches him. Here, Le Petit Journal satisfies the French public’s curiosity to imagine Dreyfus’ condition after his highly publicized trial. A year earlier, they expressed their outrage at the presence of his mustache, claiming that alongside his imprisonment, he should be stripped of such symbols of his nationality: "We were told that the traitor, upon imprisonment, was to have his mustache shaved, hair cut, and be forced to don a prison uniform. None of this has happened -
Manuscript medical certificate
In this fragment of a certificate, Dr. J. H. Fairfax notes that he has examined an enslaved woman named “Alsy, belonging to the estate of R[. . . ?] in the employment of Mr. Charles Mothershead and find her to be labouring under a ‘procidentia uteri, or falling down of the womb,’” a prolapsed uterus. This condition sometimes occurs after childbirth and can be caused by severe beatings. Fairfax determined that Alsy “may be made usefull by the application of an instrument properly adjusted, to keep the part from coming down.” -
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[Plaquette of a women bookbinder]
This plaquette was comissioned in 1900 by noted French bookbinder Charles Meunier. It shows a woman working at a sewing frame. The verso contains the text, “Aux amis de la Maison du Livre 1900 Ch. Meunier.”Tags Trades -
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Flora, ouero, Cultura di fiori
Jesuit botanist Giovanni Battista Ferrari’s book on cultivating and planning gardens is one of the loveliest books to be produced in seventeenth-century Rome. It is filled with inventive engravings of complex garden designs along with stunningly drawn plates of individual flowers and plants; the plant names are heralded in beribboned banners. Many well-known artists collaborated to illustrate the production, including the Florentine painter and printmaker Anna Maria Vaiani, who designed and engraved a number of the plates. Vaiani, commissioned to paint a fresco in one of the Vatican chapels, was a member of the circles of Galileo and the noted collector and patron of the arts Cassiano dal Pozzo. -
The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke.
Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 in a one-room log cabin in the woods of Kentucky. By then, the United States had expanded to seventeen states, and Kentucky was one of the westernmost. Its territory had originally been a part of Virginia, and it remained a slave state. Shown above is the first book on Kentucky, by John Filson, which introduced the story of frontiersman Daniel Boone. Lincoln’s grandfather and namesake, Abraham (1744-1786), followed Boone to Kentucky looking for land to farm. Lincoln’s parents, Thomas and Nancy, were hardscrabble farmers who moved their family several times in search of better opportunities, but the family never escaped poverty.Tags lincoln-section-1 -
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Letter to Robert Adams
In 1842 schoolteacher Sophia Foord moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, to join the recently formed utopian Northampton Association of Education and Industry. Founded to promote social reform through cooperative work, the NAEI was race-, class-, gender-and religion-equal. Foord writes that “this has become quite a depot for fugitives,” noting that “the slaves escape so frequently that their masters say . . . the Abolitionists must have ‘a railroad under ground.’” She also describes rather sarcastically a visit to writer and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. -
“Allégorie,” (Allegory)
For this Psst…! cover, Jean-Louis Forain depicts a German military officer fastening a mask of Emile Zola, identified through his half-rim glasses and bulbous forehead, onto an anonymous Jew. Zola’s demands for checks and balances on the military should be understood, Forain seemingly suggests, as a cheap masquerade. Behind this flimsy charade, the public would discover an imposter, not a patriot, who concealed actual alliances with the Germans and the Jews. Psst…! issued this cover following Zola’s second conviction for his article “J’Accuse!”, which had been published in Georges Clemenceau’s daily L’Aurore. The homme de lettres fled to England shortly thereafter.
Forain resided in Montmartre where anti-Semitic sentiment flowed as freely as the watered-down alcohol in the district’s celebrated café-concerts. There, he consorted with caricaturists such as Caran d’Ache, who shared his anti-Semitism and his disdain for bourgeois hypocrisies nightly displayed at the cabarets. Both men collaborated on the anti-Dreyfusard weeky Psst…! -
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