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@johnptak.bsky.social
Science bookseller (rare/significant), display of info, art history, Outsider logic, surreal mundane, baseball.
Windmill exhibit at Columbia Exposition 1893 from "Scientific American".
December 6, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Nice bird's-eye of London bridges from "Illustrated London News" July 1909.
December 6, 2024 at 5:09 PM
The interior civilization(s) of the Earth provided by William R. Bradshaw to the readers of his "Goddess of Atvatabar," which was published in 1892.
December 5, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Working. Miner. NSW, 1881. (Proc NSW Institute of Engineers, vol 12/4, 1881.)
December 4, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Human Hats of 1908. ("Illustrated London News.")
December 3, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Came across the use of the term "concentration camps" to describe the internment centers for Japanese Americans 1942 (in N. Thomas "Democracy and Japanese Americans" pub by The Post War Council.) Strikes me as unusual/early usage of the term re Japanese in the USA. No? @andreapitzer.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Nice title page vignette (American edition of the British Encyclopedia...1818.)
December 1, 2024 at 12:59 AM
The image of Jupiter reminds me a bit of Dore's rendering of Dante's Paradiso--without the celestial pure holy light in the center. Really, though, Jupiter seems more Inferno-y. (Thanks @amazingphysics.bsky.social)
November 29, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Windows. Nicely designed cover of "For a Better Tomorrow", published by the State Labor News (Columbus, Ohio), 1940.
November 28, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Canopy pinhole wannabe.
November 27, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Found Dada in data--non-artistic art in J. Scott Russell's 1845 paper on the soliton.
November 26, 2024 at 1:13 AM
The future: large phonograph ("Popular Mechanics", 1916).
November 24, 2024 at 5:09 PM
The great visionierre, Albert Robida, "La Vie Electrique", 1890, peaks into the future.
November 24, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Shadowland--stage design in "Theatre World" 1931.
November 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Printed in Los Angeles 99 years ago--no idea what it is about, but the imagery is a show-stopper.
November 24, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Nicely designed image about The World Underground from "Popular Mechanics" 1948.
November 24, 2024 at 2:31 PM