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Funny rhymes!
Ye Comical Rhymes of Ancient Times, Dug Up Into Jokes For Small Folks (New York: Hurd & Houghton, circa 1864) Laughing! Out! Loud!!!
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September 10, 2012
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 19th, century, children, jokes, kids, rhymes
Papagallo, Struzzo, and Bubola
Images of birds from a compilation of engraved plates: Eillars, Giovanni. Varii Et Diversi Uccelli Cavati Dal Naturale Et Intaglate ["sic"] in Rame ... Dno Francisco, Dni Marii Piccolominei Filio, Joan. Eillars D. D. S.l: s.n, n.d.. which may be variant or copied plates from a more widely-known work:
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August 29, 2012
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 17th, bird, book, century, engraving, italy, uccelo
The Laughable Game of What D'Ye Buy
A set of a popular card game. This edition published around 1850 by S. Hart & Co. in Philadelphia. No rules included.
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October 31, 2011
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 19th, card, century, game, hart, laughable, punch, toy
Choco-Choc
A group of labels for brands of chocolate sold in France in the middle of the 19th century.
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September 29, 2011
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 19th, brand, century, chocolate, france, label, lyon, paris
Visualizing History
Pages from Elizabeth Peabody's Universal History: Arranged to Illustrate Bem's Charts of Chronology. New York: Pub. for the author by Sheldon and Co, 1859. A system for charting historical events on a grid (representing historical periods, arranged chronologically); squares, divided into 9 parts each, to represent distinct categories of historical events; and colors, to show different "Nations".
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September 2, 2011
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 19th, book, century, display, education, grid, history, information, manual, peabody, quantitative, school, tufte, visual
Rascal, Villain, Coward,
"Plan for the improvement of the art of paper war" from: The American museum; or, Universal magazine, 1787 May.
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June 17, 2010
Beinecke Library, Modern General Collection, 18th, american, century, magazine, museum, paper, printing, universal, war
Do You Know Who I Am?
A selection of unidentified persons from the Edmund Wilson Papers:
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June 14, 2010
Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature, 19th, ambrotype, cased, century, edmund, image, photograph, tintype, wilson

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