Tag Archives: History

Bestiaire du Moyen Âge

I don’t know about you, but bestiaries always amuse me. It’s incredible see how the imagination of artists work, registering the images of animals very known of us and imaginary creature very diffuse in the Medieval age through manuscripts as … Continue reading

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Save the Girls

American Airpower Heritage Museum’s Save the Girls is a project to preserve, restore and display the world’s largest collection of original World War II aircraft nose art. Pin-ups paintings on airplanes: 33 original nose art panels that represent the artistic … Continue reading

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Bound for Glory

The Guardian Unlimited Do not adjust your screen talks about the excellent exhibition Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943 from Library of Congress. Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color … Continue reading

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Christmas Linkdump 2006

Finally, the most loved day of the year (for some) arrived: Christmas Eve. Is everything ready for this night? The tree? Food? Gifts? Cookies for Santa? Your Christmas spirit? Well, I hope that everything is fine. Nevertheless, if you need … Continue reading

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Canadian War Poster Collection

A fabulous collection: Canadian War Poster Collection – The holdings of the Print Collection in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division include some 250 Canadian posters from the two World Wars. During the First World War, the imagery of … Continue reading

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Books for Cooks

Are you searching for new recipes? Try Books for Cooks! Book images, information, history and, of course, recipes, from the Medieval food until the 1900s food. This unique collection of cookery books will transport you back in time. It will … Continue reading

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Gallery of images from historic children’s books

Gallery of images from historic children’s books: from the 1760′s book A little pretty pocket-book intended for the instruction and amusement of little Master Tommy… to the 1881′s book Clever cats. The gallery could it be bigger and it could … Continue reading

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Penny Postcards

Penny Postcards: a nice collection of vintage American postcards, divided by State. These postcards cost 1¢ to mail. Postage was temporarily raised to 2¢ from 1917 to 1919 to cover the cost of World War I & from 2925 to … Continue reading

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Canada at Scale

Canada at Scale: Maps of our History. The maps in this exhibition reflect the evolution of cartography in our country: Aboriginal peoples, European colonial powers, Canadians, governments, private industry and academics all produced precious maps. Although some are less appealing … Continue reading

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Turning the pages

The The British Library is doing an excellent work in a project called Turning the Pages™. Turning the Pages is the award-winning interactive program that allows museums and libraries to give members of the public access to precious books while … Continue reading

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