This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Grace Thompson Seton was many things, a feminist, a suffragette, a poet, a mother, a designer, a crack shot, and most relevant to this post a travel writer. She was married to Ernest Thompson Seton who Read More
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Whodunit and howdunit?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Alexandre Lacassagne was a French physician and criminologist in the 19th-century. He founded the Lacassagne School of Criminology which was based in Lyon, France and focused on medical jurisprudence and criminal anthropology. He quite famously gave Read More
Fuzz against Junk
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Most likely we have all heard the slang of the word “fuzz” to describe a police officer. There appears to be little reliable information to back up the supposition that people indeed used the word during Read More
Not suitable for snuggling
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. These oddities, from fancy drawn, May surely raise the question, Will DARWIN say- by Chance they’re formed, Or ‘Natural Selection?’ Edward William Cooke originally published Grotesque Animals : invented, drawn, and described in 1872, this version Read More