lauramcphee:

Girl with glasses in the library, 1955 (Michel Lambeth)

lauramcphee:

Girl with glasses in the library, 1955 (Michel Lambeth)

balnibarbi:

A borrower’s library card by greymowser2006 http://flic.kr/p/dS1wam

balnibarbi:

A borrower’s library card by greymowser2006 http://flic.kr/p/dS1wam

vintagelibraries:

Map Library, ca. 1970.

vintagelibraries:

Map Library, ca. 1970.

theartofgooglebooks:

Employee holds plate closed. Discovered by Christina Paik of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
From the back matter of A Description of the Mermaid, Now Offered to the Inspection of the Public, which was Found on Board a Native Vessel in the Archipelago of the Malaccas, and Carried to Batavia in a Dutch Ship (date unknown). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 18, 2009.

theartofgooglebooks:

Employee holds plate closed. Discovered by Christina Paik of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.

From the back matter of A Description of the Mermaid, Now Offered to the Inspection of the Public, which was Found on Board a Native Vessel in the Archipelago of the Malaccas, and Carried to Batavia in a Dutch Ship (date unknown). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 18, 2009.

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lauramcphee:

[Descent] Stanley Kubrick, 1940s New York

lauramcphee:

[Descent] Stanley Kubrick, 1940s New York

Jane Birkin in the Library (by John McNab)

Jane Birkin in the Library (by John McNab)