Up, Up, My Hounds, ’Tis Lillie Comes (1865)

Harold King, “The Golden Wedding in the Workhouse,” Once a Week, an Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science & Popular Information 1 (December 1, 1865):  34.

Bruna Leads Nona into the Cave (1876)

“The Good-Natured Bear,” St. Nicholas IV (December 1876): 37.

University of Virginia Yearbook, Clubs and Organizations (1922)

Corks and Curls 35 (1922): 359.

This image, or any like series, was not in my plans to post to Abaculi, but after I discovered the image Wednesday night in a 1922 UVA yearbook, it seemed an apt moment to publish. How do we begin to talk openly and honestly about a culture that normalized images of terror to the point that one could be used so lightly as an illustration for the club section of a (then all white male university) yearbook. How do the images and attitudes normalized in earlier decades allow for, or influence, what happens sixty, eighty, or nearly one hundred years later?

A Bouquet of Snow Blossoms (1866)

“Snow Flowers,”  Once a Week, an Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science I (Jan-June 1866): 12. 

There Is No Occupation in the Kinder Garten Which Affords so Wide a Field for the Gratification of the Imagination and the Exercise of the Artistic Faculties (1879)

Johann and Bertha Ronge, A Practical Guide to the English Kinder-Garten (Children's Garden): For the Use of Mothers, Governesses, and Infant Teachers : Being an Exposition of Froebel's System of Infant Training : Accompanied by a Variety of Instructive and Amusing Games, and Industrial and Gymnastic Exercises, Also Numerous Songs Set to Music, and Arranged for the Exercises (London: A.N. Myers & Co., 1879), 41.

Little Snow Stars (1899)

Ellen M. Cyr, The Children’s Primer (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899), 99.

The Term Border Is Fairly Comprehensive (1903)

Lewis F. Day, Pattern Design : A Book for Students Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy, Planning, & Evolution of Repeated Ornament (London: B.T. Batsford, 1903), 220.

The Kiln at Dale Was Situated Just Outside the Abbey Gate-House (1890)

John Ward. “Notes on Encaustic Tiles, Dell Abbey and Morely, Derbyshire.” The Reliquary Quarterly 4 (Jan.–Oct. 1890): 220.

Thus the Child Learns Measuring and Its Value in Designing (1912)

Austin Craig, “Stick Laying,” Primer of Industry (New York: World Book Company, 1912), 17.

Every Part of a Room Has Its Possibilities for Beauty (1901)

Chesire Lowton Boone, “Clay Working in the School,” Year Book of the Council of Supervisors of the Manual Arts Volume 5 (Worster, Mass.: The Davis Press, 1901) 70.