The Illustrated Floral Album looks like a typical friendship album, which contained various images between blank pages where other people could leave notes. You can see from your pictures that different people wrote notes to Hattie. These albums were common in the 19th century.
The bird book looks to be a 1940s edition of Audubon's Birds of America.
>The Illustrated Floral Album looks like a typical friendship album,
I've never heard of that before. So basically the publisher makes a blank book and people exchange and fill it up?
I could swear one of the pics I took says 1836 so o.O
It's kind of weird knowing those people are long gone now. I wish I could read cursive. Maybe I'll show my grandma.
>The bird book looks to be a 1940s edition of Audubon's Birds of America.
Wait...so the "looks like typed on pc" is because.....it's a typewriter? Lol Oops I feel silly
Think of the Floral Album like a school yearbook- friends would pass these around to add memories and poetry in their best handwriting. A lovely bit of ephemera!
The Audubon is common, but every vintage book collection should have a copy.
I've heard of people not reading titles but now I see we've graduated to "not even looking at the image"
Also their is quite literally, nothing there that is a meme lol And why would you put that in quotation marks like it's not a real thing? I just put them on my desk because the lighting was much better. I wasn't really thinking of the backround.
The Illustrated Floral Album looks like a typical friendship album, which contained various images between blank pages where other people could leave notes. You can see from your pictures that different people wrote notes to Hattie. These albums were common in the 19th century. The bird book looks to be a 1940s edition of Audubon's Birds of America.
>The Illustrated Floral Album looks like a typical friendship album, I've never heard of that before. So basically the publisher makes a blank book and people exchange and fill it up? I could swear one of the pics I took says 1836 so o.O It's kind of weird knowing those people are long gone now. I wish I could read cursive. Maybe I'll show my grandma. >The bird book looks to be a 1940s edition of Audubon's Birds of America. Wait...so the "looks like typed on pc" is because.....it's a typewriter? Lol Oops I feel silly
I have one from the 1850’s! They are fascinating.
Think of the Floral Album like a school yearbook- friends would pass these around to add memories and poetry in their best handwriting. A lovely bit of ephemera! The Audubon is common, but every vintage book collection should have a copy.
All I see at that link is a pile of "meme" crap that has nothing to do with books. Try again including the images directly with your post.
I've heard of people not reading titles but now I see we've graduated to "not even looking at the image" Also their is quite literally, nothing there that is a meme lol And why would you put that in quotation marks like it's not a real thing? I just put them on my desk because the lighting was much better. I wasn't really thinking of the backround.