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John Overholt

I just bought a bunch of items from a collection of early modern women’s history, and I’ll post a few as I get them processed for payment. This is a book of portraits of great women of history. #newacquisition #newacq

John Overholt

A rare Dutch novel about a crossdressing female highwayman who disappointingly repents of her life of crime at the end and retires to a convent. #newacquisition #newacq

John Overholt

One of the most common questions I get is “Where can I find information about the prevalence of hernia among Union troops, mapped by Congressional district?” and today I’ve got great news. circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/202

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Mx. Luna Corbden

@overholt @flockofnazguls Nice! I have a very lovely antique stereoscope my parents bought me as a teen. It still has patchy faded red velvet around the edges. And a collection of cards, in a very nice wood box (probably not original). One of the few larger possessions I've carted around with me this long.

Karin Dalziel

@overholt The only one of these that actually felt like it had depth was the manhole one, the rest seemed fairly flat (thought he balloons in the dog one did stand out)

Niles Essanay SilentFilmMuseum

@overholt This is a great collection.
Nice "in depth" view of the world we're familiar with from silent movies.
It is definitely easier to view these on a phone than on a computer screen, since you can adjust the distance to get the effect to work.
If viewing in a desktop browser, you might have to try rolling your chair back and forth to get the right distance.
If you get to a page for an individual picture, and open the actual image in its own window (on FF, right click and choose "open image in new tab"), then you can try resizing the window.

@overholt This is a great collection.
Nice "in depth" view of the world we're familiar with from silent movies.
It is definitely easier to view these on a phone than on a computer screen, since you can adjust the distance to get the effect to work.
If viewing in a desktop browser, you might have to try rolling your chair back and forth to get the right distance.
If you get to a page for an individual picture, and open the actual image in its own window (on FF, right click and choose "open image in...

John Overholt

I found England’s least believable address.

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@overholt

I quite liked

No. 1½ Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate

in York. Would love for the fractional number to be a standard part of address validation 🤪

Emma J

@overholt that's glorious.

I used to live on Ship Street. The amount of times I was hung up on, by taxis or Chinese takeaways in my own town, who thought it was a prank and I said I lived up Shit Street.

John Overholt

Adelaide Helen Page was the youngest artist to be featured in the book “Women Designers of Bookplates”. grolierclub.wordpress.com/2024

John Overholt

I’m all in on Mastodon. If we can’t make a go of this then I’m going to learn to live without social media.

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Mental

@overholt Massive mood, its kinda demoralising how commerce driven the Internet has become. Mastodon offers this chill decentralised forum feeling that I love and crave.

Silver Huang

@overholt If it ain’t nourishing, inspiring, enlightening, liberating, and challenging in ways that make me a better human, I ain’t want nothing to do with it! 💪🏼

If we want standards for social media, we might as well set them ourselves. ✊🏼

Gytis Repečka

@overholt Reach may be smaller compared to proprietary social media, but conversations are so much better on the fediverse 👍 :fediverse:

John Overholt

"How to Read a Plastic Bag:
The history of a familiar, useful, and troublesome object" an online exhibition from the Science History Institute. sciencehistory.org/visit/exhib

John Overholt

Optometrist George Mayerle’s 1907 multicultural eye chart is a fabulous piece of graphic design in its own right. circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/202

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zodarr

@overholt This is most interesting. Didn't thought of this kind of sheet till now.

🌟ジギーくん

@overholt Chinese speakers taking the Japanese eyesight test be like: proletariat

John Overholt

I think it's a shame that the residents of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard decided to change the name of this street. bostonraremaps.com/inventory/c

John Overholt

Who called it an index instead of

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@overholt I wish more people would use the word remarkable in this context. "Worthy of being remarked" is very different than "Unusual or striking."

John Overholt

People can’t get enough Long S content, is the lesson I’m taking away

John Overholt

We hear you saying that the organization is understaffed, and we’re committed to working on solutions to the problem that are creative, flexible, and most importantly do not involve hiring additional people.

John Overholt

A profound historical mystery: did the Salyut-7 space station have a painting that looked (very roughly) like this?@ZachWeinersmith needs to know! smbc-comics.com/comic/the-pain

John Overholt

I don't (and I'm not allowed to) collect rare books personally but one I have always coveted is Oliver Byrne's 1847 Euclid, a cutting-edge masterpiece of design and color printing.

Darius Kazemi

@overholt it's so good. A couple years ago I was chatting with a homeless guy and he told me how much he liked Euclid and I asked if he'd seen this. he said no so I pulled this up on my phone and we looked at it together for a while

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