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Mazelle Spring 2023 backstage

Ph. Victor Edeh

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Listen/purchase: Twinkling Lights (Reimagined) by Auni

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Cartoonists making faces through time.

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O Samba da Minha Terra Dorival Caymmi #FrancoisOne

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Paul (copyright) Davis

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Illustration of 12th century French tile patterns from P.L. Jacob’s Les arts au moyen àge et à l'époque de la renaissance (1869).

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We’re ready. Laissez les bons temps rouler! 🎉 

Embracing our Mardi Gras mood this Fat Tuesday with fancy French masks in Gazette du Bon Ton (1921). It was an influential fashion magazine published in France from 1912 to 1925. Aimed at the rich and chic, it was available by subscription only, at over $400 per year in today’s money. Available in our Digital Library. 

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An illustration of bryozoans from Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s The World of the Sea [1869]. Referred to in the text as an “animal moss”, these animals live in sedentary colonies and are often mistaken for plants.

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Many books decorate their endpapers with paper marbling, a method of using color patterns floating in liquid to dye paper. This particularly vibrant example is from a copy of Linnaea entomologica bd.8.

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The fruit of the salmon bean tree (Archidendron vaillantii) from Frederick Bailey’s Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants [1909].

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Playing cards theorized to be from 15th century Germany of the “acorns” suit (the four standard card suits in Germany at that time being bells, hearts, leaves, and acorns), including what appears to be an illustration of a unicorn on the two of acorns. From Samuel Weller Singer’s Researches into the history of playing cards (1886).

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A Buccinidae shell, referred to in the text as "The Triton or Trumpet of War", flanked by a variety of other shells.

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An illustration of a duck by the famed American artist James McNeill Whistler at age four. From Elizabeth Pennell's The life of James McNeill Whistler v.1 (1908). Full text here.