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September 21, 2011
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Civil War nurse photographed after her death, holding a book. I can see a deathgrip book in my future.

Civil War nurse photographed after her death, holding a book. I can see a deathgrip book in my future.

Tags: 1860s book death colddeadfingers

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September 20, 2011
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Union soldier during the Civil War poses with book. Also, hipster sideburns.

Union soldier during the Civil War poses with book. Also, hipster sideburns.

Tags: 1860s civil war soldier book sideburns

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September 16, 2011
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Author and intellectual Charles Eliot Norton reads - with a granddaughter? - circa 1900.

Author and intellectual Charles Eliot Norton reads - with a granddaughter? - circa 1900.

Tags: 1900 reading book author charles eliot norton

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August 22, 2011
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Bette Davis, in hat, at a Hollywood bookstore book signing, 1988. She was 79 years old and, to all appearances, one seriously ballsy chick.

Bette Davis, in hat, at a Hollywood bookstore book signing, 1988.

She was 79 years old and, to all appearances, one seriously ballsy chick.

Tags: Bette Davis book signing bookstore Hollywood book memoir

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August 20, 2011
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Two young ladies reading. I think in Los Angeles, maybe 1966?

Two young ladies reading. I think in Los Angeles, maybe 1966?

Tags: Los Angeles reading book bouffants 1960s

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July 12, 2011
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An African-American boy in Los Angeles reads Little Black Sambo in a local drugstore, 1947. See also, WTF.

An African-American boy in Los Angeles reads Little Black Sambo in a local drugstore, 1947. See also, WTF.

Tags: 1940s 1947 Los Angeles reads reading book Little Black Sambo WTF

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June 08, 2011
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Tags: reading book new orleans streetcar 1973

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May 28, 2011
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This is not academic theory, this is a folk movement…

This is not academic theory, this is a folk movement…

Tags: Triopoly or Class War? Robert Segal 1933 book

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May 21, 2011
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Tags: Hero of the Camp 1932 young adult book art deco

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February 27, 2011
Roughly translated, I think, as: I give this book to you, little bear.

Roughly translated, I think, as: I give this book to you, little bear.

Tags: bookplate bear book read igivethisbooktoyoulittlebear