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Holidays – Halloween

Oct 31

Posted by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

Happy Halloween!!

Creature from the Black Lagoon Mask

October 1960

October 1973

Illustration by Adam McCauley

1984 Advertisement for CapriSun

Sun Maid Raisins Advertisement, October 1965.

Advertisement by the California Raisin Advisory Board, October 1975.

Advertisement for Nickel Stainless Steel, 1964.

Advertisement for Nickel Stainless Steel
Life, September 18, 1964.

Ricky’s Poster Advertisement, 2003.

October 24, 197[?]

Posted in Halloween, Holidays, Picture Collection

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Cemeteries

Oct 25

Posted by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

From the longer poem Outside the Ossuary by David Pemberton

In the Cemeteries folder there are 80 pictures. Here are a few:

Ancient Sarcophagi

Wethersfield, Connecticut

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Sarcophagus of the painter Gericault at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.

Chester Street Burying-Ground
The Century Magazine, Vol XXVIII, No 5. September 1884.

The Cappucine Cemetery
Travel, January 1927.

Little Falls Cemetery

Grave of Three Soldiers, Germany, 1949.
Photo by David Seymour “Chim”

City of the Dead
Cairo, Egypt

From the longer poem Outside the Ossuary by David Pemberton

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SK-SK-SK-SKELETONS!

Oct 16

Posted by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

Nestled gently between SIGNS & BILLBOARDS and SMALL TOWN AMERICA in our Picture Collection, SKELETONS boast about 100 items and is a good place to stop by for skeletal anatomy references, to contemplate your own mortality, or to find inspiration for the Scandinavian Black Metal album cover you’ve been hired to create.

See: True Norwegian black metal : we turn in the night consumed by fire in our book stacks.

A small sampling of our calcium-loving, rigid organs: