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View of dance pavilion at Bob-Lo Amusement Park, designed by John Scott & Co. Handwritten in scrapbook: "Dancing pavilion. Bob-Lo Park."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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View of dance pavilion at Bob-Lo Amusement Park, designed by John Scott & Co. Handwritten in scrapbook: "Dancing pavilion. Bob-Lo Park."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Pages from a scrapbook made around 1883 by Minnie C. Woodbury Goodwin

From the collection of Mandy (Paper of the Past), who posts all sorts of delicious scrapbooks and ephemera on Instagram and here

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Daguerreotype portraits dated 1850-1860.

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Sylvia Plath | Lock of hair, at age 2 ½

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Who says librarians don't know how to have fun? These two give the lie to the old saw about those prim ladies, Brooklyn, 1937.

Photo: Brooklyn Public Library via Center for Brooklyn History FB

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La Mode nationale, no. 44, 2 novembre 1895, Paris. No. 1. Toilette Fantaisie. Bibliothèque nationale de France

No. 1. — Toilette de fantaisie en lainage bleu ciel. Corsage court en velours bleu saphir recouvert par des bouffants de mousseline de soie; col drapé semblable; grand col pèlerine en guipure blanche. Manches ballon aplati. Jupe à godets, légèrement drapée sur le devant.

No. 1. — Fancy ensemble in sky blue wool. Short bodice in sapphire blue velvet covered with silk chiffon bouffants; similar draped collar; large pelerine collar in white guipure. Flattened balloon sleeves. Godet skirt, lightly draped at the front.

Métrage: 9 mètres lainage grande largeur, 2 mètres velours.

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ZHANG SHUQI (1899-1956) Birds, 1944 Mounted for framing, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist and dated 33rd year (of the Republic, 1944), and signed Zhang Shuqi in Jinmen (San Francisco), with an artist's seal reading Shuqi. 20 3/4 x 26in (52.7 x 66.2cm)

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A map of the depopulated Palestinian village of Jimzu جمزو (ancient Gimzo) hand-drawn from the memory of native Ahmad Ibrahim after its destruction in 1948. Ibrahim labels the names of streets and individual neighbours where they once were.

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I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

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Hungária (formerly and now New York) cafe, Budapest, 1974. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Killing 1300+ Jews in barbaric ways does not make you the good guys. Israel retaliating is Hamas’ fault. Hamas surrendering would mean peace. Israel surrendering would have more dead Jews. But i guess that’s the end goal.

No, we're always the barbaric terrorists. Israel is the good guy for killing 9,000+ Gazans the past 25 days, and trapping 1,000+ under the rubble which will definitely turn out dead if they ever get the proper equipment to lift it off them. Israel is the good guy for killing Shireen Abu Akleh. Israel is the good guy for killing Ahmed Erekat. Israel is the good guy for killing Nadim Nuwarah and Mohammed Salameh. Israel is the good guy for opening fire on 2,400 protesters and killing 52. Israel is the good guy for holding over 1,000 Palestinians as "administrative detainees," meaning they are held indefinitely without charges.

In fact, Israel has been the good guy ever since they got the British to help them colonize Palestine and get rid of the Arabs, as they admitted to wanting it themselves. After all, as Winston Churchill said himself, the colonization of Palestine was righteous because as the Red Indians of America, and the black people of Australia, "a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."

Palestinians, be it on Gaza or the West Bank, can never retaliate or defend themselves. We're to either die and be violated quietly or we are terrorists which will be gleefully eradicated with the help of every colony-based State in the world. Otherwise, we'll disturb the comfortable privilege your racism and religious intolerance ensures.

When Hamas didn't existed the occupation began and the British violently suppressed anyone who opposed. When Hamas didn't exist the Nakba happened. When Hamas didn't exist the Deir Yassin massacre happened. But, you know, that one's fine because it happened after Israel had made Palestine agree to a peace pact, and they would never act unfairly so the brutal murder of over 100 Palestinians is obviously being misunderstood. Hamas doesn't operate in the West Bank, but they're still expelled from their homes, brutalized and murdered. Since October 7, West Bank had 115 killed, more than 2,000 injured and nearly 1,000 others forcibly displaced from their homes because of violence and intimidation by Israeli forces and settlers. They'll bomb mosques with exit points created to save people from settlers' violence, then claim they were used for terrorism. Proof? They don't need it. They'll bomb first then ask questions later.

Do people who blindly defend Israel do anything other than victimize yourselves? Do you even read any actual Israeli news that said the IDF "shell[ed] houses on their occupants," because they're too incompetent to do anything other than bombing everything? Do you ever wonder why the people Israel swears were burned and beheaded always came from reports from houses absolutely destroyed by what could only be shelling? Do you ever hear testimonies from survivors of the massacre saying IDF shoot at their own civilians? Do you ever read about past al-Qassam attacks and noticed they've never had mass casualties because IDF never responded like this? Do you even know what al-Qassam is or do you live to regurgitate whatever you're fed and being spoon-fed your information?

If Hamas' militia surrenders, Gaza will be wiped out and Gazans — those who are not murdered — will be exiled into Egypt's Sinai. That's the end goal since 1948, and that's what you're defending. But who cares? Arab blood is cheaper and racism is always fashionable.

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Program of the cornerstone laying for the new Main Library of the Detroit Public Library. Printed on front: "Exercises at the laying of the cornerstone of the new Main Library. Detroit, Michigan. Thursday, November 1, 1917 at 3 o'clock p.m." Includes program speakers, names of the Detroit Library Commission, a photograph of the 1875 Centre Park Library and an architectural drawing of the Main Library.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Bela on stage

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Peter McKenzie - The lordly Saskatchewan by night, 1910

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this is how all the guys in the terror look to me

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