Blue Electrode Lite

Public Ledger, Color Supplement, August 31, 1919, p. 2.

A cover illustration of Dr. Shaw appeared on the January 1913 issue of The Fra and the issue contains an article about Dr. Shaw and other American suffragists.

The art of kissing: curiously, historically, humorously, poetically considered (1902).

How to Write Love Letters.

Happy coloring! :)

Skaters in Le vrai patineur, ou principes sur l'art de patiner avec grace : Précédé de réflexions et de remarques critiques sur la manière de quelques Patineurs inélégans, ainsi que sur les différantes formes de Patins, le choix que l'on doit en faire, et les variations dont cette chaussures est susceptible / par Jn. Garcin (1813).

Spooky Halloween cover for the Chicago Ledger, October 28, 1916.

How to give hypnotic exhibitions: with history of hypnotism by Prof. L. A. Harraden (1900).

How to tell fortunes: containing Napoleon's Oraculum and the key to work it: also tells fortunes by cards, lucky and unlucky days, signs and omens (1902). Also available as an ebook on Project Gutenberg. 

All month long, libraries and archives are celebrating Halloween by posting spooky, creepy, and/or weird images from their collections using the hashtag #PageFrights. Follow the tag on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook, or visit pagefrights.org for an aggregated view of posts.

Two girls playing a clapping game on this letterhead from 1897.

See Plate 14 in: Atlas of Bryn Mawr and vicinity: or of properties along the Pennsylvania R.R. including 1 1/2 miles each side of the road and from City Line to Malvern Station: from official records, private plans, and actual surveys (1881).

"An exciting polo moment" on the cover of the Public Ledger, Color Supplement, September 21, 1919.

For more on the history of Civil War prisoners at Johnson’s Island, Ohio, visit the  Johnson’s Island Preservation Society.

Chasuble, sewn and embriodered by Mother Euphemia, O.S.B.M.

A rather fabulous fairy godmother in an 1888 Cinderella illustrated by R. Andre.

How to get married, although a woman, or, The art of pleasing men by a Young Widow (1892).