June 21, 2012
Newspaper clipping of the New York Times obituary for James Lane Allen (who collapsed of “Chronic Insomnia” in 1925), with verso flapper-stye advertisement.  From the back matter of Flute and Violin: and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances by James Lane Allen (1905). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized August 6, 2008.

Newspaper clipping of the New York Times obituary for James Lane Allen (who collapsed of “Chronic Insomnia” in 1925), with verso flapper-stye advertisement. 

From the back matter of Flute and Violin: and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances by James Lane Allen (1905). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized August 6, 2008.

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