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["Don't Fence Me In" artist book from above]

Description: Photograph of a handmade miniature book featuring the first line of a Cole Porter song. The book is opened and the pages are connected accordion style. They have red text along the top of each page. The covers are made from ponderosa pine and the front has a stamped leather piece of a rider on a bucking horse.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walter Crane's 'Faerie Queene']

Description: Photograph of an edition of Edmund Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' that is illustrated by Walter Crane. The book is open to an illumination and is resting on a cradle made of two wedges. The image depicts a woman on her knees in the midst of several men in armor and holding swords and shields. A short portion of writing is included below and designs decorate the border.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Dump House" art piece]

Description: Photograph of a "Dump House", folk art piece. The structure resembles a small shack with a red tin roof and white-painted wooden planks serving as the exterior wall. Broken items and small signs and advertisements decorate the house. There are pieces of dolls, small bottles and a bell on the piece.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 20, 1749, Article 1]

Description: Photograph of the first article in Benjamin Franklin's 'The Pennsylvania Gazette', published on April 20, 1749. The piece reads "Continuation of the General and Definitive Treaty of Peace, begun in No. 1053 of this Paper. Article I. There shall be a christian, universal, and perpetual peace, both by sea and land, and a sincere and inviolable friendship between the high powers before mentioned..." Part of the second column is also visible.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Not Paper" book beside box]

Description: Photograph of a leather bound book titled "Not Paper" by Peter Thomas. The book features descriptions and samples of different paper-like materials that are not paper including Amate, Birch Bark, Parchment, Papyrus, Tapa, Tyvec and Wasp Nest. On the right is the box, made by Donna Thomas that houses the book; it has a marbled pink and blue dye on it and letters stamped in. The words "Not Paper" are also on it.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Men around burning man woodcut, page]

Description: Photograph of a page from the book "Some German Woodcuts". The illustration on the page is one of the many woodcut specimens printed in the book. It depicts a man inside of a hollow tree that is burning with four men standing around it. Below it is text that reads "8. One of the 126 full-page cuts in Das Buch der Weisheit der alten Weisen, printed at Ulm by Conrad Dinckmut in 1485. Hain, 4033."
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Pennsylvania Gazette side angle]

Description: Photograph of Benjamin Franklin's 'The Pennsylvania Gazette', published in 1749, from the side. Visible on the page is the date "April 20, 1749", half of the newspaper title, a partial section of the motto "Containing the freshest Ad-" and the crest. The articles are separated into three columns of text.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kodak, Jr. No. 2C Autographic camera at angle]

Description: Photograph of an antique Kodak, Jr. No. 2C Autographic camera. The camera is being viewed at an angle from slightly above. The front covering, which also functions as a platform for the bellows, is lowered showing the interior. The bellows are compressed and so the camera is still inside of the casing. The lens and viewfinder are both attached and visible as well as the metal plates with Kodak's logo and setting information.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kodak, Jr. No. 2C Autographic camera closed]

Description: Photograph of an antique Kodak, Jr. No. 2C Autographic camera. The camera is lying on its side and the front covering, which also functions as a platform for the bellows, is almost closed. This leaves the interior of the camera covered, but the "Kodak" nameplate is visible.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Kodak, Jr. No. 2C Autographic camera back]

Description: Photograph of an antique Kodak, Jr. No. 2C Autographic camera. The back panel of the camera has a metal plate that reads "No. 2C Autographic Kodak Jr. Use Film NO. A-130". At the bottom are two metal loops nailed to the box, likely for the handle, and a metal ring is on the side.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Section of "Dump House" art piece]

Description: Photograph of a section of the "Dump House", folk art piece. The structure resembles a small shack with a red tin roof and white-painted wooden planks serving as the exterior wall. Broken items and small signs that read "Comforts; hand made long filler; 100" and "Corregidora" decorate the house. There are pieces of dolls, small cans, a light-bulb, and a pulley on the piece.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

['Spenser's Faerie Queene' volumes in pile]

Description: Photograph of a set of an illuminated edition of Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' done by Walter Crane. The six volumes are stacked, one on top of the other, in sequential order. The books are bound in a maroon leather from Morocco and have embossed golden scroll-work that decorates the spines and provides the tile.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Dump House" art piece close up]

Description: Photograph of some of the items on the "Dump House" folk art piece. There are pieces of dolls, a small teacup, and a paper from "Corregidora Tobacos Superiores" are attached to the white-painted wooden siding. A small metal cylinder and a ceramic piece from a Mosler spit-fire sparkplug.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Some German Woodcuts" cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of the book "Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century". The cover is blank except for the title, which is all capital letters and in a seraph font. The material appears to be a purplish gray and the binding is a tan, cream colored material.
Date: December 4, 2013
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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