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May 21, 2021 • 13 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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north american christian material culture archives book hunt is active

no date on this one but has a signature. insta-obtained obviously: ImageImage
1901 so this one is a full 120 years old (one century.2). it has a lot of foxing, thats this weird paper staining. some people say it can spread to other books but some people say it actually doesnt (anyone know?), might obtain: ImageImageImageImage
saw this last time i was here. not very old but its pretty cool: ImageImageImageImage
more pics of that book. its pretty cool: ImageImageImageImage
lol. this ones a little expensive for something not directly related to my operation so not going to get it but it is certainly... unique. 1905. check out the pics in the next post. ImageImageImageImage
theres a full on fold out map in here (sorry for the unideal pics, im obviously in a weird place): ImageImageImageImage
this is pretty cool. im working with a guy on my patreon on a project and this is one of the source books he sent me digitally. not sure if it’s rare or not but cool to see in person. its like 400 pages with a ton of illustrations:
was just thinking about this guy and talking about him on the last episode of the painting show. normally im scoping for old books but gonna obtain this as well. this is an excellent run so far ImageImage
1920. 100 years old. proto ‘hell house’ material. this is exactly what im hunting for. gonna post two pages in the next tweet ImageImageImageImage
yes ImageImage
these last two arent so old, so, now we’ve kind of left the material archives archive-ation project and segued into [personal collection], this is from 1950 and has a lot of cool woodcut style images in it. it was one dollar: ImageImageImageImage
last up, this is new (was cheap tho), thought i should have one of these in the house since im having a kid + because my wife is an anglophile (aka she is white), although interestingly this is the episcopal version. anyone with book learning know if / how that makes it different ImageImageImageImage
thats it for today. time wise pound for pound this was an excellent run. thanks for tuning in. heres a random previous episode that i think itself links to another thread. the archive is now quite large and im working on getting some out of copyright stuff up on my site.

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saw this when i was 12 or 13 for some reason and it affected a huge portion of my life. a trojan horse: it appeals to people who have a crappy job and feel like they’re better than the customers, and then asks: if you’re so smart, why are you the one working there? brutal.
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oh yes. it is time for… our second annual children’s book recommendation thread.

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apathy about other people that you come into contact with is really a form of contempt. if you dont care what a person thinks, you obviously dont think very highly of them.

i have this. its the best and worst feature of my personality. recently, i tried to figure out why.

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