Congratulations to the Baltimore Ravens! Alas, the Wunderkammer is woefully short on artifacts pertaining to 21st century football, but we do have some awesome pieces of sheet music, courtesy of the Lester Levy Collection! Grab yourself a piano and sing many a song in celebration of the old pigskin, including a fearsome rendition of Poe’s The Raven!
Here’s the original Bad Santa, a smoking, lascivious, be-suited beast of a man ready to corrupt adults with the smooth, smooth taste of ancient cigarettes!
From the George Peabody Library’s The Smart Set collection!
OMG!!!! I think we may have just discovered the most creepy of creepers ever, or at the very least, the most creepy depiction of a baseball player ever. Thank you, Chadwick’s Baseball Reference (1867), for giving us one more monster to populate our dreams!
Seriously, what are his muttonchops hiding?
Call No.: 796.3 C432 1867
Is she demented or smiling at her own jesterly awesomeness? Let’s see what kind of jokes such a smiling and winning visage is promoting!
“How is your younger brother, the surgeon, doing?”
“First rate. He recently operated on his tenth patient and the man lived twenty hours.”
Call No.: 808 .882 Sm 43 1915
Location: George Peabody Library
From dandies in danger to the lusty dramas of educated fleas, the George Peabody Library proves that the past was indeed STRANGE! Visit us in Baltimore (don't worry, in addition to the strange things depicted here, we also have plenty of old and rare and classy books, too).
Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 9am -5pm; Friday 9-3
Address: 17 East Mount Vernon Place Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410-234-4943
Libguide: http://bit.ly/g1UsTk
Email: peabody@jhu.edu
George Peabody Library by Marcellina. on Flickr.
George Peabody Library by Jeff Lee Photo on Flickr.
I would die if I studied here. Die from sheer, overwhelming emotion. The George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University in the United States...
Founding editor George A. Plimpton’s business card.
On the back was a subscription card, which had the option to purchase a lifetime subscription...
In the meantime, even the libraries...
Some photos from the Rutgers University Libraries Edible Books Festival that took place yesterday at Alexander Library.
From Top to Bottom:
Naked...
Cathedral of Books - Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA
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Before Records Made Sound, They Made Moving Pictures & Were Called Phenakistoscopes
Quick, someone make a GIF of this!
