Black and white plate with neon moiré, torn. What are they all looking at?
From p. 91 of Our Young Folks, v.1, ed. by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, and Gail Hamilton (1865). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 15, 2007.
July 21, 2012
June 22, 2012
Detritus: Poems from the Thames Foreshore Krissy Wilson is searching for textual artifacts in London’s river midden and assembling them into public, mosaic poems.
This is the process blog for my forthcoming Fulbright application, and it features a pique assiette mix of found objects, Victorian perspective on the Thames mudlarkers, folk art, tales of beachcombers worldwide, memoryware, and textual mosaic.
Mosaic artists, poets, Londoners, beachcombers, anthropologists, and scholars of all kinds: I’d like for you to check out my latest project and I’d like even better to collaborate with you.
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June 16, 2012
Image of plate includes neon moiré.
From p. 108 of Arthur’s Magazine, ed. Timothy Shay Arthur (1845). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 15, 2007.
September 21, 2011
Featured find: The strange and hilariously Victorian (and long-winded) Curiosities of Street Literature: Comprising “cocks” or “catchpennies,” a large and curious assortment of street-drolleries, squibs, histories, comic tales in prose and verse, broadsides on the Royal Family, political litanies, dialogues, catechisms, acts of Parliament, street political papers, a variety of “ballads on the subject”, dying speeches and confessions by Charles Hindley (1871). [Here]
