Germany

A new acquisition: A game that uses a magnet and a metallic wheel to show a letter that is indexed against sheets of code to predict(?). Perhaps the title on the box can be translated to provide guidance: Verborgener Gedanken Errathende Machine.

February 19, 2013

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, errathende, fortune, gedanken, Germany, letter, machine, magnet, teller, toy, Verborgener

The Game of Medicinal Herbs

Jeu d’Herbes Medicinales par Kneipp [Germany, c. 1905] A board game based on alternative medicine theories promoted by the Catholic priest Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897) who became known for his herbal remedies.

October 17, 2011

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, game, Germany, herb, herbe, jeu, kneipp, medicinal

Schwimm, Schwamm, Schwumm

Illustrated plates from a German primer on swimming. Carl Purkart, Vorschriften für den Schwimmunterricht (München, 1826)

May 21, 2009

Beinecke Library, Modern General Collection, 1820s, Germany, pool, swim, swimming

The crowd outside the bordello

A peepshow (or kullisentheater) by Martin Engelbrecht, circa 1750, showing the exterior of a bordello (Das Bordell). Hand-colored copper-engraved sheets, made in Augsburg, Germany.

March 24, 2009

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 1750s, 18th century, bordello, brothel, engelbrecht, Germany, peepshow, perspective

Playing Card sample book (Germany)

A saleman's sample book for a line of playing cards produced in Northern Germany, circa the early 1950s.

February 16, 2009

Beinecke Library, Cary Playing Card Collection, bielefeld, book, card, cheesecake, Germany, photo, playing, sample

Kaputt-nik!

Three issues of a radical and far-out magazine, Charlie Kaputt, from Berlin, 1968.

November 18, 2008

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 1968, charlie, Germany, kaputt, magazine, protest

Truth in Advertising

Posters from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)