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overholt

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Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Opinions are my own. He/him/his

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I just heard a 25-year-old on a podcast say “Growing up, we didn’t have a TV…” and after a brief pause he finished the sentence in a way that made me feel every bit of the twice his age that I am, “in the car, like the rich kids did, we just had one of those portable DVD players.”

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Growing up, I didn’t have seatbelts in the car—my mom kept her first car, a 1963 Ford Falcon, into the early 80s. My dad, who was a sales manager, got a new leased Oldsmobile every few years from work, which had (for the time) modern safety equipment, and once, for an excruciatingly embarrassing period for his children, a CB radio.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s racist views on eugenics were deeply intertwined with her pioneering feminism. https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2024/05/16/race-pseudoscience-and-the-yellow-wallpaper/

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The work of Averill Cole, at one time America’s most famous female bookbinder. https://grolierclub.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/rediscovering-averill-cole-bookbinder-and-dictionary-cover-patenter/

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I have a theory that the concept of something being “pre-distressed” is only appealing to you if your life is such that you’ve never actually had to use something until it was completely worn out.

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An extensive gallery of images of the mandrake, whose anthropomorphic root has long been the subject of fascination and lore. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mandrakes/

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An exciting glimpse of the future of AI-generated literature from @ZachWeinersmith
(Full comic at link: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-12)

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Struggling to remain strong enough not to mouse over onto this clickbait

but I'm losing the battle

i'm losing

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@clive If you end up caving, can you see if it also says why I should put an empty toilet paper roll under the toilet seat?

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A weirdly common thing I see in our reference questions is people saying something like "I have reason to believe you have X" or "I saw this on the web but I can't find it in your catalog" without including any further information, like they're Woodward and Bernstein protecting a source. It's often easier to solve mysteries if you give us all the information you have!

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Because I work with early materials I don’t always stay up to date with the cutting edge of librarianship, but apparently they have electric books now.

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Note to self: when sitting close to the stage and a comedian makes a prostate joke and he looks at you, maybe don't give him two thumbs up.

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@glennf Just one index finger, slightly curled.

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Pulling candidates for a future exhibition (in collaboration with @internetstine ) on men who are big mad about women’s appearances.

DISCOVRSE Against Painting and Tincturing of WOMEN. Imprinted at London for Edward Marchant. 1616.
*EC65.A100.662w aces A WONDER of WONDERS: OR, A Metamorphosis of Fair Faces voluntarily transformed into foul Visages Or, an Invective againt Black-spotted Faces: By a Well-willer to modest Matrons and Virgins, Published by R. SMITH, Gent. LONDON, Printed by 7. G. for Richard Royfon, Book- feller in luy-lane. 1662.
HIC MULIER: OR, The Man- Woman: Being a Medicine to cure the Coltith Disease of the Staggers in the Maculine-Feminines of our Times. Expreft in a briefe Declamation.

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It wasn’t too hard to find the piece I was interested in within this pamphlet volume. I’m not sure how thrilled Conservation will be if I put it in the exhibition though.

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Bookseller email: "At the Saatchi Gallery this week we will be showing manuscripts by Charles Darwin, Frida Kahlo and Talbot Rothwell, writer of the Carry On films."

Ah, yes, the three pillars of Western Civilization.

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A prize-winning collection of Penguin paperbacks makes it possible to trace the evolution of its logo over time. https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/05/10/winner-of-the-2024-james-david-forbes-collecting-prize-march-of-the-grenguins/

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The challenges of preserving obsolete AV formats like mini digital video tape, just a few decades old but already at risk and become increasingly difficult to access. https://theatrecollection.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/05/09/the-challenges-and-rewards-of-preserving-video-from-minidv-tapes/

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I probably won’t get to see any northern lights this weekend, but rest assured I will have the line “Aurora Borealis comes in view-ew-ew/Aurora comes in view-ew-ew” from I Ran by Flock of Seagulls in my head the whole time.

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This afternoon I hosted a visit from a group called The Pursuit of History, 30 folks spending the weekend immersed in Revolutionary history, and had a lovely time showing them collections from 1774 Boston. https://thepursuitofhistory.org/pursuit-of-history-weekends/rebellion-in-new-england-may-2024/

Three large cartoon prints satirizing events in Massachusetts, particularly the British reaction to the Boston Tea Party
A manuscript diary of events of 1774
A sample of calligraphy from a Boston writing school

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One of the attendees asked me what’s kept in the elegant wall cases in the room . I’m afraid the answer is a little prosaic—it’s the foam wedges we set the books on.

Doors open showing them full of green foam wedges neatly stacked

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I just woke up from a fairly standard “unexpected test you haven’t studied for” dream except that it was a class on memes taught by Werner Herzog.

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Oh no, disaster has struck Houghton’s Lincoln Collection! (It’s OK, it’s just a simulated training disaster)

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@rjblaskiewicz Simulated water coming from the ceiling.

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I do not wear a wristwatch but this Ptolemaic solar system is tempting. https://shop.getty.edu/collections/cuff-links-watches/products/ptolemaic-watch

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I just pray that the students finishing up dinner next to me don’t come to blows over whether the check should be settled by Venmo or Zelle.

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Just learned that Albrecht Dürer died at my age and I have got to get my act in gear.

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@glennf I don’t want to put limits on you Glenn, but I feel like holding yourself to Durer standards is just asking for disappointment.

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