Iconic books are texts revered as objects of power rather than just as words of instruction, information, or insight. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them. This blog chronicles such events and activities. (For more about iconic books, see the links to the Iconic Books Project at left.)
Boston Public Library's Photo Archive
Michael Liebermann on
Book Patrol calls attention to the fact that the Boston Public Library has put 15,000 images from their archives
on Flickr. They include vintage advertisements like this 1895 poster
and also images of the libraries and their patrons, like this of the Dorchester Branch's summer reading club:
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