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This is an antiquated postcard that was originally printed by the Raphael Tuck & Sons Postcard company, founded in 1866 in London. It is chromographed in Saxony and is usually sold in a packet inscribed "Dry Humour Series." The artist of the design…

A newspaper letter written by E.B. published in The Times (London) on Wednesday, September 21, 1898. Written in response to the "Vegetarians" editorial of Monday, September 19, 1898.

Scanned page from County Folk-Lore Vol. VII, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Fife (with some notes on Clackmannan and Kinross-shires), a volume of text-based folklore collected by John Ewart Simpkins (p. 409). This page outlines folk cures…

A text written by a Dublin-based Irish Jesuit, Nicholas Walsh, attempting to determine the number of saved souls compared to lost souls.

This is an excerpt from a 1922 review of Ulysses by Shane Leslie in the Irish literary periodical The Quarterly Review. In one of his concluding statements, Leslie refers to Ulysses as “an attempted Clerkenwell explosion in the well-guarded,…

A screenshot of a letter to the editor of The Times (London), written by "F.R.C.S.", published on Monday, September 26, 1898. The letter is a response to an earlier letter by "E.B.", which was written in response to the "Vegetarians" editorial…

This excerpt from a periodical about "The Woman's World" includes advice for women about the fashion trends contemporary to the early 1900s. It represents one of the styles parodied by James Joyce in the "Nausicaa" episode.

An illustration of the American Fenian headquarters after James Stephens fled to New York.

A resource for selecting and translating flowers to communicate meaning

Title page to In the Track of the Sun, a travelogue written by American traveler Frederick Diodati Thompson