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Nineteenth Century catalogues
I’ve been on a hunt for these elusive critters. Yes, you can buy facsimiles, as with Sears Roebuck 1897 but I’m cheap. I had to keep hunting, looking for an online public domain copy. Have I found one? No. And I am tempted to buy some of the new reproductions. But old newspapers are freely…
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Palgrave’s Golden Treasury
Pop culture has always seemed to me to be a 1960s and onward phenomenom. But that’s because I’m an idiot and confuse it with pop art, which is very cool, but only an element of our culture. Popular culture is as old as us humans’ tendency to gather together and entertain one another. Pop culture…