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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
 
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A Charles Addams cartoon about signage
a Charles Addams cartoon       see full size
 
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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
   
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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
  
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A photograph of 1916 Teddy Roosevelt style eyeglasses
1916 eyeglass frames       see full size
 
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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
  
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"10 p.m. - Pier 6,  bring the money and come alone!
Burn this"   We'd better do as he says
 
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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 readingSadie 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
       
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