Vade Retro, Earth Girl
Discarded photos, mid-century book design, and anything else I decide to scan.
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10
2012
Girl speaking into a Chromalizer, from The Mind, a LIFE Science Library Book, by John Rowan Wilson and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books. (1964, reprinted in 1971).
“The colored panels tell her visually when she is making the right sound.”
7
2012
From The Mind, a LIFE Science Library Book, by John Rowan Wilson and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books. (1964, reprinted in 1971)
I would have been obsessed with this book if I’d had it as a child.
“Routes for Musical Messages
The picture on the opposite page is a photograph of a pianist. On it have been sketched the two hemispheres of the brain, a network of nerves throughout the arms, and a connecting length of spinal cord. The system of billions of cells and miles of fibers can relay many messages at once…”
2
2012
From Stories of Great Battles, by Robert N. Webb. Illustrations by Shannon Stirnweis. 1960.
23
2012
Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse. By Helen Wells. 1947.
“It is every girl’s ambition at one time or another to wear the crisp uniform of a nurse. Certainly, girls everywhere love to read stories in which a nurse is the heroine. At least a million girls already know and admire Cherry Ames; have laughed over her pranks, and her gay adventures and wept over her problems.”
22
2012
I Want to Be An Airplane Hostess, by Carla Greene. 1960.
22
2012
I Want to Be a Homemaker, by Carla Greene. 1961.
Edit: Accidentally uploaded the not-great picture of this first. Oops!
9
2012
I Want to Be A Telephone Operator by Carla Greene, 1958. This printing 1962.
(Part 1 - I have another batch of illustrations from this book coming)
9
2012
Revolt on Alpha C, Robert Silverberg
Illustrated by William Meyerriecks
Copyright 1955, 3rd printing 1963
4
2012
22
2011
The True Book of Sounds We Hear, 1960.
Theme by Lauren Ashpole
