Filling a Day of Social Distancing - 5/9/2020 – eBotanical Prints
/Continuing the blog post series prompted by COVID-19….
Here are the unique activities for yesterday:
The flowers of the tulip poplar look unharmed by the cold weather.
Browsing Life Magazine from 1958. Internet archive only has 2 issues from 1958 (March and December) – the year another of my sisters was born. There were a lot of articles on the entertainment industry. I collected some of the ads (click on the image to see a larger version). Some of the brands are still around: Disney, Campbells, Coke, Pepsi, General Electric, American Airlines, Northern, Jell-O. There were also a lot of ads for cigarettes and various kinds of alcohol.
Links to my previous “filling a day of social distance” posts here.
And now for the monthly post about the digital botanical print books I browsed through in April 2020….
There are 15 new books this month. The first 3 are by Anna Atkins and are cyanotype photographs (process invented by Sir John Herschel) of algae/seaweed. Then there were 11 volumes of Flora fluminensis – Brazilian plants publish in the 1820a. The last book is much more recent (2006) and about Hollies; the illustrations are photographs in this one.
The volumes are all freely available on the Internet by clicking on the hyperlinked title. The whole list of 1,879 books can be accessed here. Sample images and links for the 16 new ones are provided below. (click on the sample image to see a larger view). Enjoy!
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions V1 * Atkins, Anna * sample image * 1853
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions V2 * Atkins, Anna * sample image * 1853
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions V3 * Atkins, Anna * sample image * 1853
Flora fluminensis - V 1 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 2 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 3 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 4 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 5 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 6 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 7 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 8 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 9 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 10 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora fluminensis - V 11 * Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Hollies foor Gardeners * Bailles, Christopher; Andrews, Susyn * sample image * 2006