Forum: The Reading Room

Valentine's Day cards have been around for a long, long time. This handmade card with a pressed flower is from 1861 and is the oldest card I've ever...

Came across this in the NY Times, an interesting take on the personals ad, showing they've been around since Victorian times: ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1049497/As-Boris-Johnson-attacked-unkempt-appearance-Olympics--Why-posh-people-scruffy.html

Just bought a copy on ebay and was wondering if anyone has a copy with the dust jacket. I'd like to print up one to put on my book. Sean

Greetings Fellow Loungers, I just received two leather bound technical manuals published in 1941, "Audels Millwright and Mechanics Guide" and...

Anyone remember the wonderful "Herters" catalog???

it's about time they put their catalog online. http://www.authentichistory.com/1898-1913/05-changing/6-consumerism/index.html

Check out this site. By category, you can find everything from the 1920s onward. http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/

I love this one by Sidney Harris.

Does anyone know if Esquire Magazine's Big Black Book is going to be available in bookstores this year, or by online order only? I've seen ads to...

Photographer Catherine Corman has a book coming out in the fall called "Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler’s Unreal City." Author Jonathan Lethem...

I didn't know if anyone here is a stamp collector, but if anybody is at all interested a new stamp is coming out tomorrow featuring a lovely portrait...

I couldn't find another place to share these images, and figures some FLers would enjoy reading snippets from a scrapbook I got last year. I'll post...

Thought I'd scan and share parts of my collection of vintage souvenir view folders here at the display case. I've only scanned the front and back...

My Grandmother's high school diploma has always fascinated me. I remember finding it last year when I went home for my mothers funeral. Granny...

Not the complete archives yet, but a substantial sampling of this long-lived entertainment trade pub is now online in full-scan form here. If...

I just posted this image over on the "Shaving" barstool...but seeing as it's as relevant here, thought you might enjoy it as well: I've collected...

I did a search, and could not find any thread devoted to the display of peoples favourite books. So I thought I would start one. There must be other...

I love books. I also love fashion, especially vintage, and photography from all eras, and when all three are combined I go into a minor spending...

Sears & Roebuck spring and summer 1938 catalogue I've started scanning my Sears & Roebuck spring and summer 1938 catalogue. Hundreds of images of...

I've had a bit of a look, and haven't seen a thread on this, hope it's ok to start one? Anyway, I have quite a burgeoning collection of sewing...

So... I'm getting older and my lady parts are drying up I'm sure :) I read about things before I attempt them - I had 3 books on kittens before I...

Among the rarities I enjoy collecting (let's face it, I'll collect whatever's old and uncommon) are old travel guides. Here is one I picked up...

My brother just showed these to me. They all came from our great aunt Bessie Chaplin (no relation to Charlie) and her husband, Roy. They lived in...

If you've ever listened to Schaap's fascinating, endlessly detailed, mega-scholarly jazz presentations on WKCR (89.9 FM in NYC, or wkcr.org), you may...