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FL➡️CA➡️MA. Librarian looking at digitization stuff. Constantly exhausted mom of two.
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Couldn’t stop looking at this painting from different angles- reverse painting on glass is such a wild technique. It’s “Ship Matchless Rescuing the Crew of the Ship Japan off Cape Horn” (circadian 1870) by Carolus Cornelis Weytz at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.

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I did this gambit with my 3-year-old where we watched so much goddamned Clubhouse this morning. It paid off and now we’re watching red carpet coverage and discussing which dresses we like. I have to do it while pretending to be the mama penguin from Happy Feet but I consider it a win.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 44 days ago • 418 comments

*For immediate release* Join the Library of Congress for a Douglass Day 2025 Transcribe-a-Thon and Other Black History Month Events Press release (Feb 4, 2025) newsroom.loc.gov/news/join-th...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like a nice day for running around screaming questions at each other that we know full well have no answers

submitted 62 days ago • 125 comments

Still thinking about this hand-tinted photograph of Florida from 1894.

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This photo was blown into our yard during the Eaton Canyon fire. Anyone from Pasadena/Altadena recognize these people?

submitted 77 days ago • 48 comments

Admired this astrolabe today

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Looked at a photo album for digitization today, and the c.1920s compiler was kind enough to include the leftover corners used to mount the photos to the pages. I wish this happened more often with scrapbooks and albums!

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Thrilled that it is finally the season where it is societally acceptable to switch from watching the BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries on a loop while I try to fall asleep to watching the Christmas Prince trilogy on a loop.

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