Tag: Conundrum of the Week
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Can You Guess What This Soviet Poster Is Trying To Tell You?
Early Soviet posters aimed to end the Old Regime in every way, and that included religion. The poster above is a part of the collection of 48 Soviet propaganda posters from the 1920s and 1930s. This fascinating collection includes anti-religious and anti-capitalist messages, as well as instructional posters on the new ways of Soviet childcare…
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Razmak Brigade in India (1936 to 1939 OR 1939 to 1945)
I was just looking through a photograph album documenting the Razmak Brigade in current day Pakistan that Clémence Scouten recently processed and my interest was sparked. We have loads of photograph albums of the British Army in India before Indian independence in 1947, but very few of them actually document army life in that region. …
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A Maddening Stamp
[This stamp has been solved! It is the stamp of 20th-century Paris bookseller Arthur Lauria. Many thanks to Jasmin and Mitch Fraas for solving the mystery!] Stamps should be easy to identify. You don’t have to decipher bad handwriting. You are more likely to find information about people, libraries or businesses who stamp their books…
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Cataloging Conundrum: Unidentified Coat of Arms
We haven’t been able to identify the coat of arms in this bookplate. It is found in our copy of Bernardino Campelli’s Delle historie di Spoleti : sopplimento di quelle del regno d’Italia nella parte, che tocca al ducato Spoletino, à principi di esso, & alla città, che ne fù capo (Spoleto: Giovanni Domenico Ricci,…
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Conundrum of the Week: Unidentified Inscription
Can you help identify this inscription? If yes, please comment! This is what we have thus far: Prof. Osiander Gött[ingen] 1800 Call Number: GrC Ar466 Ef1 1538 Folio
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Conundrum of the Week: Unidentified Inscription
Can you identify this inscription? If yes, please comment! Perhaps: “Ed. Agbironi”(?) Call Number: FC65 Qu422 Eg675d
Unique at Penn 