It truly is a plesiosaur-eat-pterosaur (& everybody-eat-everybody-else) world, with a worried-loking turtle, in Elements of Geology, by Samuel St. John (1851) #paleoart #fossilfriday #bookhistory

BREAKING: A 21-year-old Norwegian tourist, Mads Mikkelsen, claims he was denied entry to the United States and harassed by ICE agents after they discovered a bald JD Vance meme on his phone. Don’t you dare share the meme that he was harassed over below:

1/5 Flowers for May: the magnificent "Flower Power," by Paula Minkebige (Crossed Wing #28), which I still haven't framed #xstitch #crossstitch #flowers #hummingbirds #butterflies

Happy International Children's Book Day! Read 'em and reap! The book that changed my life, read about age 10. What book changed your life?

1/2 #Spring was the time for making spring whistles in the #19thcentury, as #MaryAnnHallock shows us in #OurYoungFolks; 1870 #clothinghistory #1870s #womanartist #WomensHistoryMonth #womenartists #bookhistory

I bet you know where & why THIS book was controversial in the U.S.; originally published 1958 #bannedbooks #bookhistory

Where we were in 1852: controversial Bloomer dress, which made women look like ruffly pumpkins. from children's magazine Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet (Woodworth didn't completely approve) #AmericanHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #19thcentury #fashionhistory

1/4 #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth A reminder of where we came from: despite Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt & Dr. Sarah Hunt opening a practice in Boston in 1835, a woman apprenticing with a doctor in Pennsylvania in 1838 was arrested:

1/4 Honoring a transwoman who died in 1853; from the Alexandria Gazette [Alexandria, Virginia] 24 May 1853: "Last summer a (reputed) female was going the rounds, instructing ladies in the art of cutting dresses, &c., hailing from the North, we believe." #LGBTQ+

early brand name #PeterParley makes his debut in Tales of Peter Parley About America, by #SamuelGriswoldGoodrich, 24 Feb 1827; images from 2nd edition, possibly 1828 #OTD #bookhistory #1820s #fashionhistory

a president worth honoring; a mezzotint of an 1864 photo by Matthew Brady; for subscribers to The Little Corporal, 1865 #bookhistory #AbrahamLincoln #lincoln #presidentsday

Tomorrow! If you can't march, then please share this post and let others know. #march #resistance #ResistFascism #ResistTrump #protest #PresidentsDay #NDOP #OTBOF

A little late (it was Feb 11), but birthday wishes to Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist and editor of The Juvenile Miscellany, 1826-1836 #bookhistory #lydiamariachild #juvenilemiscellany #19thcentury #childrensmagazines

Been having a good time with this, though my corrections have gotten increasingly ... personal.😉

for a valentine: found in a 19th-century book (probably a bound volume of a children's magazine), a nice little heart in a hand

This. Civil disobedience.

#mammoth on ice, Charles Livingston Bull; from The Boy Scouts of the North, by Samuel Scoville, 1920: "untouched by time, & intact as when some unknown fate had overtaken it when the last Ice Age overwhelmed the earth" #mammothMonday #fossil #bookhistory

Winter in Ohio, 1950 or 1951: my grandmother's dog ("Foxy") and car (If it's a Model-A, it was my father's.) #1950s #dog #winter

my favorite #megatherium ("one stroke of its paw would demolish a lion or an alligator"); from "Wonders of Geology," in The Schoolmate magazine; 1852 #bookhistory #fossilFriday

an editor misunderstands trilobites: "a curious animal which has received its name from the fact that it had three bodies joined to one head." Yeah ... From The Schoolmate, 1852 #bookhistory #trilobiteTuesday

Prehistory's most delightful #mammoth emerges from the ice in 1799; in The Children's Friend, a Quaker publication; 1871 1/3 #bookhistory #mammothMonday

the #labyrinthodon crawls through the Triassic: an unusual layout in Elements of Geology, a book for young readers by Samuel St. John; 1851. 1/3 #fossilFriday #ichnology #bookhistory

It's gray here today, so this fungus on my parents' property in 2008 looks especially cheerful. #fungifriends #fungi

It's ALWAYS been the Gulf of Mexico (& it always will be); Adams' Geography, 1819 #bookhistory #gulfofmexico

"bird tracks" in Massachusetts: "The animals which made these tracks are supposed to have been birds, though none of their bones have yet been found in these strata." Samuel St. John. Elements of Geology, 1851. #fossilFriday #ichnology #bookhistory

It's a plesiosaur-eat-pterodactyl world (with a genial ichthyosaur) in children's magazine Robert Merry's Museum, 1860 #bookhistory #fossilFriday #paleoart #dinosaurs

Anna Mills got a book from her teacher in 1803 Love Triumphant; or, Constancy Rewarded, by Abner Reed (1797),is a sentimental romance between star-crossed lovers. Anna Mills' copy was presented by her teacher; it's a triumph of calligraphy. #bookhistory #calligraphy #bookhistory

two fine ladies stroll among the butterflies; from Sarah Tuttle's scrapbook, 1834-1860s 1/2 #TwoForTuesday #scrapbook #1830s #fashionhistory #19thcentury

Because I'm tired of cold (it's -7 celsius), though this little girl doesn't seem to be: "Cold Weather," from a bound volume of Parley's Magazine (it's complicated) #bookhistory #1830s #fashionhistory #historicalfashion #19thcentury

Words I don't see often enough: kickshaw: a fantastical dish of meat, &c.; Royal Standard English Dictionary, 1777 #WOTD #word #WordWednesday

so far, the earliest illustration in an American children's magazine of the skeleton of a mammoth (or maybe a mastodon); from Robert Merry's Museum, 1841 #fossilfriday #bookhistory

a New Year wish from Parley's Magazine, 1838 #bookhistory #NewYear

Whew! Samuel G. Goodrich was consul in Paris; I finally ordered Archives microfilm with his application--unsure that it would be in that roll. ($125!) It was! Greatest thing is how many documents some 19th-century clerk labeled with subject "Peter Parley." #PeterParley #researching #SamuelGoodrich

for the 201st anniversary of publication of America's most popular poem: 'Twas the night before Christmas, in The Troy Sentinel, 23 Dec 1823; as reproduced for the Troy Public Library 1/2 #bookhistory #poem #NightBeforeChristmas #VisitFromStNicholas #Christmaspoem #ClementMoore

a paleo Peaceable Kingdom: iguanodon, plesiosaurs, megalosaurus, hylaeosaurus, pterosaurs, teleosaurs, ichthyosaur, & friends; from The Children's Friend, a Quaker publication, 1872. #paleoart #fossilfriday #bookhistory 1/2

The mighty iguanodon BELLOWS to the sky in what's likely the first dinosaur pictured in an American magazine for children; Robert Merry's Museum, 1842; engraved by Hammatt Billings #fossilfriday

Fresh at merrycoz.org: "Gender & Identity in 19th-Century America": 64 people living as other than the gender they were assigned at birth #gender merrycoz.org/exhibits/gen...

"Good Night," by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (as Peter Parley); in Robert Merry's Museum, 1848 #goodnight #poem

Words I don't see often enough: Abisselfa: A, by itself, A. Used in spelling: "The scholar, in spelling the word, was taught to say, “a, by itself, a, (rapidly, abisselfa,) b, l, e, able.”—Moor’s Glossary." from Dictionary of Americanisms, John Russell Bartlett, 1848

apparently, first dinosaurs for American children: "Fossil Animals restored": plesiosaurs, an ichthyosaur, & a tiny pterosaur. from Peter Parley’s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky; New York: Colman, 1839. (Yes, it's printed in gray instead of black.) #fossilfriday #bookhistory 1/2

This is a wood engraving. (And proofreading is so important ...) frontispiece for Peter Parley's Story of the Little Gardiner, 1833 #bookhistory 1/2

Because somewhere something is being harvested, "The Harvest Girl," advertising W. N. Stevens' Variety Store, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stevens' store was at this address from 1837 to 1839:

the mastodon in Charles Willson Peal's museum; from The Child's First Book of History, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 1831 #bookhistory

Words I don't see often enough: kicksey-wicksey: word of disdain to a wife [Royal Standard English Dictionary, 1777]