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overholt, 6 days ago to random

👀 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eye-miniatures/

overholt, 6 days ago to random

Harvard Yard is back "open" today except that most of the gates are still padlocked and the few that are open are still staffed by security guards, they just won't turn you away if you want to come in. So welcoming!

overholt, 7 days ago to random

I’ve got some practice with 17th century English orthography but this one throws me every time.

overholt, 11 days ago to random

I passed the IT department’s phishing test through the technique of hovering the URL, which was googie dot com slash phish.

overholt, 12 days ago to random

I was really run down after a difficult and taxing day at work, but for some reason I’m feeling a lot better now.

overholt, 12 days ago to random

The binder wished there had been more punishments.

overholt, 12 days ago to random

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8996/professor-orlando-ferguson/map-of-the-square-and-stationary-earth

overholt, 13 days ago to random

Repeat after me: “I can see the value in what you’re proposing. What less valuable thing that I’m currently doing should I stop to make time for it?”

overholt, 13 days ago to random

Really interesting piece on @publicdomainrev about an 18th century Dutch sailor marooned on a desert island as punishment for sodomy, and his manuscript journal of the ordeal, found apparently posthumously and published several times in London. Modern scholarship has identified the author and I'm getting his name added to our anonymous catalog records. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sodomy-punished/

overholt, 14 days ago to random

A great little series of Art Deco postcards featuring electrical appliances by illustrator Lawrence Sterne-Stevens, from a wonderful collection digitized by the Newberry Library. https://collections.newberry.org/C.aspx?VP3=DamView&KW_RID=2KXJ20AMO13E&FR_=1&W=1533&H=673

Woman in a white and black dress standing in front of a fan, with blazing orange sun rays as a background

overholt, 14 days ago to random

Just appreciating the cover of Electricity for Everyone (1897) https://www.weberrarebooks.com/product/134297/Electricity-for-Everybody-Its-Nature-and-Uses-Explained

overholt, 14 days ago to random

Well, he's dead, I'd say that's pretty major. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/better-to-be-talented-or-lucky/

overholt, 16 days ago to random

The Library Company of Philadelphia acquires an extensive collection of women’s history ephemera. https://librarycompany.org/2024/05/22/library-company-acquires-the-kathryn-s-alpert-collection-of-womens-history-postcards-and-ephemera/

overholt, 17 days ago to random

I got the Shingrix shingles vaccine on Thursday, and I definitely felt some side effects yesterday (fatigue, chills) but I’m pretty confident it’s way better than actually getting shingles.

overholt, 17 days ago to random

I am once again asking everyone who refers to a “nickle” to understand that it’s spelled e-l, though I get why you’d think that..

overholt, 17 days ago to random

Taking a closer look at the paper of a letter from Helen Keller reveals how she she was able to write by hand with such precision. https://www.themorgan.org/blog/letter-helen-keller

overholt, 17 days ago to random

These fake William Morris prints for sale on Etsy are such an aggressive attack on historical reality. Not content with mutating his work to better fit a 21st century market, they come with fictitious provenance as well. https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery

A print of an orange tree. Text at bottom: COTTON PRINTS EXHIBITION WILLIAM MORRIS TEXTILES HISTORY OF BRITISH DESIGN LONDON THE ART OF XIX CENTURY

overholt, 21 days ago to random

JOB POSTING: Assistant Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, one of the world's premiere collections of materials on the history of the performing arts, especially theater, ballet, and opera. Minimum salary $66,200.

https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25240&siteid=5341&PageType=JobDetails&jobid=2008209

overholt, 22 days ago to random

This is dizzying, even for a seasoned adrenaline junkie like me.

overholt, 22 days ago to random

Folger Shakespeare Library names Farah Karim-Cooper its new director

Karim-Cooper, author of “The Great White Bard,” will be the first person of color to lead the nearly 100-year-old institution.

https://wapo.st/3V6e1yX

overholt, 23 days ago to random

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.”