Showing posts with label 1920. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Useful Cookery Hints for Every Joint (1920)

Cuts of Meat and How to Use Them (Montreal: Stanford’s Limited, 1920), cover.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

With But Feeble Leaping Powers (1920)

Albert Pitts Morse. Manual of the Orthoptera of New England: Including the Locusts, Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Their Allies. (Boston: Society of Natural History, 1920).

Friday, March 22, 2013

Dodging the Shadow (1920)

He dodged and jumped, and all the time the shadow followed him.
Thorton W. Burgess. Mrs. Peter Rabbit. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1920).

Monday, March 4, 2013

Not Only Cheap, But Nutritious (1920)

F.L. Washburn. The Rabbit Book: A Practical Manual on the Care of Belgian Hares, Flemish Giants, and Other Meat and Fur Producing Rabbits. (Philadelphia and London: J.P. Lippincott Company, 1920).

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Emergency Fire Hood (1920)

Breathing Apparatus: Rescue and Protective. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920).

Monday, July 30, 2012

Navy Mask, Mark 1 (1920)

Navy Gas Mask, Mark 1 (Mouth Canister Type.)
Breathing Apparatus: Rescue and Protective. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920).

Friday, July 27, 2012

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Experimental Helmet No. 13 (1920)

Experimental helmet model No. 13 for American tank operator, shown with and without detachable padded-silk curtain and visor; guarding against lead splash
Bashford Dean. Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920).

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Rescue Breathing Apparatus (1920)

Oxygen Rescue Breathing Apparatus, New York Navy Yard Type
Breathing Apparatus: Rescue and Protective. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920).

Saturday, June 2, 2012

They'll Be Wind (1920)

There'll be blood; and if there's blood, they'll be wind.
Mildred Cram. "Wind." Illustrated by M. Leone Bracker. Munsey's Magazine. 70 (August 1920).

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Monday, November 28, 2011

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Story of Live Dolls (1920)

Josephine Scribner Gates, illustrations by Mabel Rogers, The Story of Live Dolls (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1920).

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Elizabeth I: No Beer, No Queen (1920)

. . . it seems to have been a rule of no beer, no queen with her. An old account of reception of Queen Elizabeth at Cambridge states that she left a day earlier than she wished, and that if provision of beer and ale could have been made, her grace would have remained.
W.G. Clifford, Books in Bottles: The Curious in Literature (New York: The Dial Press, 1920).

Tuesday, April 12, 2011