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Pictures taken moments before disaster: Cottagecore edition

"Leap-frog in the woods" from St. Nicholas illustrated magazine for young folks july 1882

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I love things #found in old books

Its like a little peephole into the past

guys i am fucking crying i got an old copy of pilgrims progress from a used booksale and i just opened it and there's a handwritten dedication to a girl from her grandfather from christmas 1888 and she put a little fucking drawing in the back and im sitting on my bed losing my fucking mind over a hundred years ago a grandpa gave this book to "miss maggie" and she loved it and it's lasted a century and im holding it right now

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My money's still on Sermek

From "Tom Swift jr." By Victor Appleton II

Illustrations by Graham Kaye

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"Ok we need you to draw a man-eating iguana. You know what an Iguana is right?"

"Pfft! Of course i know what an iguana is! "

The iguana:

From "Tom Swift and his Electronic Retroscope", b Victor Appleton II"

Illustrated by Graham Kaye

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Nancy Drew- the Mystery of the Glowing eye 1974 ed.

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Lets タコ (tako) about this picture

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Edo Period)

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Grimms fairy tales

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Detailed drolleries from a 1920s childrens book series.

I mean these aren't even the actual illustrations, they're just decorative margins. Pictured here in mostly blue because it shows the details the best. This book series actually alternate print colors in blue, red, green and brown. And theres different ones in all the different books, these are just some I liked.

"The Children's Hour" story collection, by the Houghton Mifflin publishing company, 1928

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Hes probably dead now, but you never know with the victorians.

From St.Nicholas illustrated magazine for young folks, October 1880

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Illuminated manuscripts are the best

I am deeply enjoying the facial expressions on both woman and bird in this marginal drawing.

(Cambridge UL MS Add. 4085)

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From St Nicholas Illustrated magazine for Young Folks, November 1882

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They really got away with all kinds of stuff back then huh

From Letterbox section St. Nicholas illustrated magazine for young folks, 1880

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From st. Nicholas illustrated magazine for young folks 1882

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One of these children will grow up and commit war crimes

(Repent and change your ways, before it is too late, young fandy!)

From St.Nicholas illustrated magazine for young folks 1882

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From St. Nicholas illustrated magazine for young people, May 1880