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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
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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 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

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