This is an artifact in the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection that was displayed at The Grolier Club. This is a manual that was written by a French midwife, Marie Boivin, who is considered one of the first great modern practitioners of obstetrics and gynecology. Marie Boivin specialized in women’s reproductive […]
Daily Archives: May 14, 2020
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Walking around the New York International Book Fair, I felt drawn to a certain bookstall. This book stall contained many aged books. The stall was not only huge, but the pictures from the books were being showcased behind a glass container. The pictures are what drew my eyes to the […]
Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif script typeface created by Vincent Connare in 1994 that was released by the Microsoft Corporation. Comic Sans MS was actually made and designed for a cartoon dog who went by the name Rover. The cartoony typeface was also made for a kids computer program […]
The Grolier Club in New York City had an exhibit dedicated to the works and contributions of women in society. Women for centuries had dedicated their lives to bettering society. For years women’s work have been dismissed or living in the shadows of men, but this exhibition puts on […]
Throughout the movie American Animals , we see the retelling of true events in which four college students attempt to rob rare books from a university library. Thanks to behind-the-scenes consultants, the movie includes authentic details when it comes to rare books and their selling. The audience gets to see […]
While viewing the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at the Grolier Club, I pondered many interesting artifacts about the women’s suffrage movement. One of the many notable women who participated in the movement was a French philosopher and writer, Madeline de Scudery. Though she was proud of her work, she couldn’t […]
The volvelle, with its name coming from the Latin volvere, “to turn”, is a chart made of concentric paper circles held together with a tie or pin in the middle. In more recent decades, this construction might be a toy cipher wheel where lining up letters in a particular way […]
In the introduction of What We Mean When We Talk About Books, Leah Price mentions that when we mourn books, it is really the times, such as riding transportation or waiting in line, that we are mourning (Price, pp. 8). To me, it is more than the memories of reading […]
