20 v. 25 cm

Printed by Butler & Tanner, Frome

If you’re like me, you’ve once or twice seen the near future in the form of Spielberg’s action-packed take on Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report. Not precogs, precrime, or pre-arrests, so much, nor the ubiquitous floating ads, but the scenes in which Tom Cruise’s character controls his tech by speaking to it and waving … Continue reading "The Control Panel Archive: The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials"

216 p. 23 cm

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Ohio University yearbooks have served as the student body's outlet for many years, preserving memories of Athens and its way of life, as well as detailing the...

volumes : 25-31 cm

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4 p.l., 79, [3], 54 p. 20 cm

132 p. : 24 cm

Digitized at Georgetown University Law Library.

3 p. l., 354 p. 20 cm

216 p. 23 cm

Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA

If you were a poor city resident in the late 19th century, you may have called an old-law tenement home. These were dumbbell-shaped buildings with four apartments to each floor, three rooms in each…

ix, [1] 333 p. 21 cm

A fun collection of pictures of board games. Many with maps and wonderful illustrations of animals, people and landmarks.

Consists of illustrations with descriptive titles in French

205, 333-343 p. 19 cm

More than 1,500 black and white images show the lives of impoverished families and the lowly beginnings of towns like Rock, Fowey, Newquay and St Ives before they became tourist hotspots.

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Originally published in parts

No more published

The Voss Washer may look like an industrial food processor, but it's inexpensive, and sensational in performance. Dirt always falls to the bottom, as shown in...

Peterson's Ladies National Magazine, March, 1883, No. 3, Volume LXXXIII, (Volume 83), Published by Charles J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia....

240 p. 20 cm

x, 415 p. 24 cm

3 v. 39 cm. (text: 34 cm.)

4 p. \U+25a1\., 5-211, [1] p. 24 cm

I'm plucking out cards from cancelled sales for typing use. This is the back of a card like the one below. The story of one customer and his watch. Each drawer held hundreds, if not thousands, of customer records. The earliest were from the 1920s and the latest from the 1960s. The entries from the '50s on weren't as interesting since they added small appliance repairs. I have a certain nerdy fascination with forgotten history gleaned from esoterica. Out of all the antiquities I looked at during the October First Fridays' sale at Good JuJu, this was my only purchase other than a 1960s vintage Girl Scout Handbook for my wife. There are many uninteresting stories in this collection, but that is made up for by the really interesting customer stories. I settled on this one because it contained a record of a house call to repair the dashboard clock on a "Ladies Red Buick". In looking at the customer addresses, I've come to the conclusion that this jeweler generally served the upper middle class and above in Kansas City proper. There are many monied addresses along Ward Parkway in the file. The drawer full of record cards was one of many. In talking to the seller, I found out that the whole lot of drawers came from a single huge estate sale cabinet that was in very poor condition. So out came the drawers for sale to crafters, creative types and nerds. I guess since I am using backs for typing, that makes me semi-creative. The fact that I am blogging about it places me squarely in the nerd category. At any rate, I have lots of fun reading material to pick through. Typecast Courtesy of the Royal Futura 800 (Borg Edition)

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