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Cover and back cover of Films Selectos (Selected Films), a weekly illustrated magazine focused on films and filmmaking. It was published from 1930 to 1938 in Barcelona, collecting up to 328 numbers. This one is the 104th issue, dated October 8, 1932.

"Spanky" McFarland is the star of this cover, from Our Gang (1922-1938), aka The Little Rascals. In the back Greta Nissen is announced to be in the 1932's productions The Silent Witness and Rackety Rax.

Highlights from Water-color sketches of plants of North America and Europe, 1888-1910

Another of my expeditions through the archives. This time I came across this beautiful botanical sketchbook from the late XIXc. I really love the detail of the drawings and the fact that the leaves are not coloured. The beautiful handwrite says some properties of the flowers and their names. In the description it is said:

God's bride, circa unknown.

13,5 x 8,8 cm.

Months ago I went to a local antique flea market and, of course, I brought home with me some old photos. Most of them were war themed, but this one caught my atention just on my way out the stand.

There is no date nor place written back, but the studio that sold the piece is from Germany as "Sepp Hartmann's Lichtbildwerkstätten" is indeed written, owned by Beta Hartmann.

This photo is so beautiful. You can see from their faces the simple and grateful the nuns are. One of them, though, stands out as she is wearing a white flower crown and has pinned a white cloth in the heart. To explain this, I only found informationn in The Nun’s Crown by Julie Hotchin (2004). She says:

Each woman received her crown in a ceremony of consecration, or coronation, in which her virginity was dedicated to Christ. This distinctive headdress symbolized—more so than the veil and ring—her privileged status as a Bride of Christ.

Die Erotik in der Photographie Wulffen, Erich, 1862-1936