GO to MOOT POINT: August 2016

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Sunday, August 28, 2016

DRUG use . . . in other times

How did our ancestors get properly gone on the weekends?

We know they did, throughout history and earlier.

A cartoon illustration of laughing gas, or nitrous oxide

from an 1861 comedy magazine ... "laughing gas"

(nitrous oxide), was used recreationally from 1799 on

an Adelaide Hanscom 1905 pictorialism photograph

hippies have always been with us ... an Adelaide Hanscom photograph, 1905

Skip Williamson drug trip cartoon with Snappy Sammy Smoot

Skip Williamson's cartoon character tries LSD

an 1881 hashish experience description

an 1881 warning about hashish "Wasting of the muscles, sallowness of the skin ... idiotic offspring"

1918 mescaline description

an 1918 description of a mescaline trip experience "On the left wall was pinned by the tail a brown worm of perhaps a hundred feet long"

1909 Hungary opium art

1909 Hungary opium art

a Richard Estes painting, drug store

a pharmacy a Richard Estes painting see full size

An illustration of 1890 opium paraphernalia: a lamp and a pipe

1890 opium paraphernalia: a lamp and a pipe see full size

Illustration of a 1898 opium den client

an inexpensive 1898 opium den, with a client see full size

An interior photograph of a pleasure-boat opium room, 1920s?

in contrast, a pleasure-boat opium room (date unknown) see full size

Elihu Vedder art, poison in a glass

alcohol is a drug too ... Elihu Vedder art

a 1825 child schoolbook about war and alcoholism

"Drunk or sober go to bed Tom" an 1825 children's schoolbook about war and alcoholism

Lazy Looey, from a 1945 kids comic book

"Lazy Looey - Sleeping Pills" from a 1945 kids comic book see full size

1932 New York drug abuse

1932 New York drug abuse

A 1940s photograph of a forgotten cigarette

1940s

1940s graphic, I Like It, It Likes Me

"I like it, it likes me" euphoria see full size

John Wayne Marijuana poster

alcohol against marijuana

Robert Crumb El Perfecto acid trip

LSD ... a Robert Crumb comic

A Willy Murphy comic, Thrilling Episodes of Sudden Illumination, LSD comic

a Willy Murphy comic, 1973?

An Emanuel Schongut paperback book illustration, 1970s

an Emanuel Schongut paperback book illustration 1970s

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A Rod Filbrandt cartoon

"I'm an artist - I can do whatever I want" (eating heroin)

a Rod Filbrandt cartoon

Rod Filbrandt, Paging Dr. Junky cartoon

Rod Filbrandt

Rod Filbrandt, Paging Dr. Junky cartoon

Rod Filbrandt

A Winsor Mccay cartoon about drug addiction

"Drug Habit" a Winsor McCay cartoon

a 1947 opium pipe, color photograph

a 1947 opium pipe see full size

a A Yan Dargent illustration of hallucinegenic drug use 1878

a Yan Dargent illustration, 1878

Sunday, August 21, 2016

R E A D E R S . . . by different artists

A cartoon illustration of an old book reader, from an 1885 publication

why do people watch books?

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A Childe Hassam painting of a woman reading by rocks and shore

a Childe Hassam painting see full size

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Christoph Niemann art, a man reading tiny words under large art in a gallery

Christoph Niemann art

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Christoph Niemann art, books on a table

Christoph Niemann

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Mabel Dwight 1928 art, people in a book store

Mabel Dwight, 1928 see full size

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A old photograph of glasses on a newspaper

R E A D I N G

A Charles Addams cartoon about signage

a Charles Addams cartoon see full size

R E A D I N G

an Ethel Spowers print, a crowd reading their newspapers in public

an Ethel Spowers print

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Lucille Ball at breakfast, a 1955 staged photograph

Lucille Ball at breakfast, 1955 see full size

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Erwin Damaske 1932, an avid book reader in his library

Erwin Damaske, 1932

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a Perry Barlow illustration for The New Yorker magazine January 22 1938, a man digs a snow path to his mailbox

a Perry Barlow illustration

R E A D I N G

An Abner Graboff illustration from Mothers Are That Way

"Mothers are the strangest people, you'd never guess what they call fun."
an Abner Graboff children's book illustration see full size

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An old Joseph Sattler illustration of an obsessive reader

a Joseph Sattler illustration, from 1894? see full size

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Dalziel Brothers book graphics for preface, contents and illustrations pages

1890s? a book's 'preface' was a message of introduction or explanation . . .

'contents' listed the paginated chapters, and 'illustrations' were indexed too
see full size

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An Edwin Georgi illustration of a bookish teen on a sea cruise

an Edwin Georgi illustration see full size

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a Douglas Smith illustration

a Douglas Smith illustration

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an Arthur Getz illustration for The New Yorker Magazine January 16 1960, people reading menus in a high altitude restaurant in blues

an Arthur Getz illustration

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an 1890 "Patent self-operating swing" catalog illustration

an 1890 "Patent self-operating swing" from a catalog

R E A D I N G

A photograph of 1916 Teddy Roosevelt style eyeglasses

1916 eyeglass frames see full size

R E A D I N G

a Don Martin cartoon about a book store customer

book store: "Which one shall I choose? . . . I'll take this one" a Don Martin cartoon

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a 1940 illustration of a dynamic man at a desk reading from a sheet of paper

a 1940 illustration

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a Joost Swarte illustration of a man reading a book

a Joost Swarte illustration

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a 1909 cartoon of a reader buried under paper

a 1909 cartoon

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a 1919 bookplate, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be - Hamlet Act 1"

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be - Hamlet Act 1"
a 1919 bookplate . . . clearly we cannot borrow this book.

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an Elisha Brown Bird bookplate illustration

An Elisha Brown Bird bookplate illustration

R E A D I N G

"10 p.m. - Pier 6, bring the money and come alone!
Burn this" We'd better do as he says

R E A D I N G

An Ellis Martin illustration, 1937

an Ellis Martin illustration, 1937 see full size

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An Edmund J. Sullivan illustration of a gentleman and his hairdresser

an Edmund J. Sullivan illustration see full size

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Sadie Wendell Mitchell 1909, a woman reading

Sadie Wendell Mitchell, 1909

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an Adelaide Hanscom retouched photograph, 1905

an Adelaide Hanscom pictorial photograph, 1905

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Tudor Jenks 1905, a student reading

Tudor Jenks, 1905

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Charles Burns, a boy reading horror magazines

Charles Burns

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a Gustave Dore illustration of book-burning see full size

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an 1860 erotic photograph

an 1860 erotic photograph

Readers 2 Readers 3

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