Showing posts with label 1908. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1908. Show all posts

Friday, December 13, 2019

Fairies—Truly Fairies, Midst the Trees (1908)

Maude Morse Robin, “At the End of the Moonlight Way,” Illustration by A.M. Upjohn, Good Housekeeping 47 (August 1908): 159.

Friday, October 23, 2015

Daring Rescue at a Tenement Fire with the Searchlight’s Aid (1908)

“Daring Rescue at a Tenement Fire, with the Searchlight’s Aid,” Drawn by Arthur E. Jameson, Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper 145 (February 6, 1908): cover. 

Monday, October 19, 2015

The Outline of a Huge Claw (1908)

Samuel Hopkins Adams, Illustrated by C.R. McCauley, The Flying Death (New York: The McClure Company, 1908), 136.

Saturday, February 21, 2015

I'll Lead the Mules up the Road a Piece for You (1908)

Alice MacGowan, Illustrations by George Wright, Judith of the Cumberlands (New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1908), 13.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Love in the Foothills (1908)

W.C. Morrow, “Love in the Foothills,” Success Magazine 11 (September 1908): 560.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

She Waves Her Hand to the Attendant Raven, & with a Rush that Sends a Spirtle of Bright Sparks up from the Embers, She Is Away—up the Chimney through the Overhanging Branches, through the Ragged Clouds, & far on Her Journey under the Stars (1908)

Oliver Madox Hueffer, The Book of Witches, (London: Eveliegh Nash, 1908): frontispiece.

[Curator's note; this is from a poor quality scan and normally it would not have been collected here, but I found the image so compelling even with the degradation—or perhaps because of it—that I did what I could to soften the worst of compression noise and went forward.]

Monday, March 18, 2013

You Naughty Rabbit (1908)

"You naughty rabbit," said Tibs.
The Strange Adventures of Billy Rabbit. Illustrated by Mary Tourtel. (Chicago: M.A. Donahue, 1908).

Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Man (1908)

Margarita Spalding Gerry. The Toy Shop: A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man. (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1908).

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Nearly Drowned (1908)

Eleanor Atkinson. The Boyhood of Lincoln. (New York: The McClure Company, 1908).

Monday, January 28, 2013

Skijoring (1908)

Edgar Syers and Madge Syers, eds. The Book of Winter Sports. (London: Edward Arnold, 1908).

Friday, January 25, 2013

Fair Navigators All (1908)

Skate sailing
A fair navigator
Edgar Syers and Madge Syers, eds. The Book of Winter Sports. (London: Edward Arnold, 1908).

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The BI Change (1908)

Edgar Syers and Madge Syers, eds. The Book of Winter Sports. (London: Edward Arnold, 1908).

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Blotched or Typical Tabby (1908)

Diagram of the Colour-Patterns of the Blotched or Typical Tabby Cat
A Guide to the Domesticated Animals  (Other Than Horses) Exhibited in the Central and North Halls of the British Museum. (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1908).

Friday, October 12, 2012

The Pekinese Spaniel (1867/1908)

Side and front views of the skull of the Pekinese Spaniel
A Guide to the Domesticated Animals  (Other Than Horses) Exhibited in the Central and North Halls of the British Museum. (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1908).

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Proposed Double Roadway (1908)

Proposed double roadway.
Charles Moore, ed. Plan of Chicago. (Chicago: The Commercial Club, 1988).

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Looks Like a Boat, Tom (1908)

It looks like a boat, Tom; let's swim to it.
Charles H. Simpson.  A Yankee's Adventures in South Africa. (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, 1908)

Monday, May 28, 2012

Symmetry in Arrangement (1908)

Symmetry in Arrangement of Tentacles and Ampullae
"Symmetry in Arrangement of Tentacles and Ampullae." Biometrika. 6 (March 1908 - March 1909).

Monday, April 16, 2012

Shot by the Author (1908)

Heads of Eight Lions Shot by the Author in British East Africa
John Henry Patterson. The Maneaters of Tsavo: And other East African Adventures. (London: MacMillan and Company, 1908).

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Toodles and Her Snowman (1908)

Frederic Chapin. Toodles of Treasure Town and Her Snowman. Illustrated by Merle Johnson. (New York: The Saafield Publishing Company, 1908).