GA – PEACHES.

Georgia is for peaches! 1. Smyrna, 1953. Church Service Ad. Roadside object.–from field notes.2. Dalton, ca. 1930. Afghan woven by Blanche Gardner.3. Georgia Peaches.4. Roswell, 1978. Runner Terry McCarver does not miss a stride in reaching for a drink from Lynn Roberts during a local road race.5. Atlanta, Georgia, 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., [...]

FL – MOD DUTCH.

Enjoy Florida beaches & The Wolfsonian’s Modern Dutch Collection at the State University Libraries of Flordia. This goes out to my old boss/friend Arjen & who is moving back to Holland this summer with his wife Christie. They will be missed and hopefully visited by me in Holland soon! 1. Ons thuis : geïllustreerd maandschrift [...]

AL – YEARBOOK IT.

This summer NisN is going to take a virtual road trip across the digital archives of America — Alabama to Wyoming. YeeHaw! First installment, Alabama. Brownie Yearbook from Jones Valley High School, 1976. via Birmingham Public Library

JACKETS.

Calligraphy, gradients, marbling, photo-montage—it’s all so contemporary! Displayed here are dust jackets from the 1940s collected by anonymous librarians. Despite the fact that dust jackets often include useful information about a book and its author, including biographical notes and often a portrait, it has long been Research Libraries practice to remove the jackets from new [...]

E S P R I T .

Is this not the most exciting & vibrant catalog & fashions of allllll time!?!1980s ESPRIT come back to us! or let’s make something this fun. Black background, bright colors POP. Look at the patterns people! ESPRIT 1984-1986 catalog via Lady Greyer flickr my advice: open the scans at the original size & stare.I cropped some [...]