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Pipe, top hat, and tails???

20 April 2017 adharris Collections in Focus

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library.  Size matters! was the motto that Wilhelm Moser and David Culby took quite seriously when creating The Manipulator in Dusseldorf in the 1980s.  This art magazine is an impressive 70 cm long by 50 cm wide and marks the Read More

A Postcard for every Occasion

23 March 2017 adharris Collections in Focus

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library.  Pulps are so called because of the low quality of paper, coarse untreated paper produced from wood pulp, on which they were printed. Because the quality of paper was so poor it meant that it was cheap thus keeping production Read More

Mo’ money, Mo’ plant problems

23 February 2017 adharris Collections in Focus

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library.  If you are looking for some practical advice on how to grow cannabis under fluorescent lighting I’ve got just the book for you!  A guide to growing Cannabis under fluorescents by C.E. Faber was published in 1974.  Tips Read More

Remember Cootie Catchers?

9 February 2017 adharris Collections in Focus

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library.  Will you live in a mansion, drive a Ferrari, get your dream job, have two kids and marry your hot 12-year old crush?  Or will your fate be to have a rusty pickup truck, work a minimum wage Read More

Scandale!

26 January 2017 adharris Collections in Focus

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Originally a French lawyer, Georges Anquetil was also a journalist and publisher who was well known for unorthodox methods and anarchist leanings.  Early in his legal career he wrote under the name “Georges Evil.”  His career Read More

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