Source: VCU Libraries, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Description: This book is an example of a typical comic book. Measuring 6 ? x 10 ? inches, it is saddle-stitch bound and runs for 25 pages including advertisements. The two staples placed roughly three inches from the top and bottom are clearly visible on the book’s spine, and the back cover features an ad instead of information about the comic itself. In 2002 it was bound into a trade paperback with several other single issue comics, and the new book was titled Dr. Strange, A Separate Reality.
Title: Letter requesting permission to book passage on Johnson Line or other ship lacking official authorization.
Creator: Abraham Jakob Lewin
Date: 1938 October 28
Source: Abraham Jakob Lewin Papers
Description: Request for permission to book passage on Johnson Line or other ship lacking official authorization. Letter states that the authorized (konzessionierte) lines are completely booked until February/March of 1939, and Mr. Lewin could not have booked passage before receiving the visas for his family. In the second paragraph Lewin says he cannot wait until the spring of 1939 to leave, following the dissolution of his business and liquidation of his assets.
Creator: Alexander, F.O., J. P. McEvoy, J. H. Striebel, Gene Byrnes, Ham Fisher, Al Capp, Al Smith, Clare Victor Dwiggins, Pop Mormand, A. E. Hayward, John Hix, Harry J. Tuthill, Sol Hess, Wallace A. Carlson, Charles M. Payne and Frank Godwin.
Date: 1933
Source: VCU Libraries, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives
Publisher: Eastern Color Printing
Description: This volume is often lauded as the progenitor of the American comic book. A very important historical artifact in its own right, it contains both newspaper strips and new content bound together in the form of a book. In the context of this discussion, Famous Funnies is a particularly good example of the changes that occur between printing on one form of paper versus another. The first page of the story is printed on the back of the cover, and the second page is printed on the first interior page. The interior pages are newsprint, while the exterior cover is a thicker paper with a gloss finish, which lead to the strong visual differences between the two first pages. The first page that was printed onto the thicker gloss paper of the cover has bolder colors, as the whiter surface makes the variances in the ink easily visible. Additionally, the surface of the cover paper is less porous, so the ink has not absorbed as far into the page. This is not the case for the second page that was printed on a newsprint sheet. The ink colors here have a noticeably duller appearance, as the newsprint absorbed more of the pigment, and the darker tone of the paper dulled the image further since the lighter colors rely on the color of the paper for their appearance.
Issue Title: Famous Funnies: a Carnival of Comics
Issue Number: 0
Publisher/Imprint: Eastern Color Printing
Writer: Alexander, F.O., J. P. McEvoy, J. H. Striebel, Gene Byrnes, Ham Fisher, Al Capp, Al Smith, Clare Victor Dwiggins, Pop Mormand, A. E. Hayward, John Hix, Harry J. Tuthill, Sol Hess, Wallace A. Carlson, Charles M. Payne and Frank Godwin.
Artists: Alexander, F.O., J. P. McEvoy, J. H. Striebel, Gene Byrnes, Ham Fisher, Al Capp, Al Smith, Clare Victor Dwiggins, Pop Mormand, A. E. Hayward, John Hix, Harry J. Tuthill, Sol Hess, Wallace A. Carlson, Charles M. Payne and Frank Godwin.
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Canadian Rockies! Our last all [train] town. Scenery + colored leaves Fantastic. Canada has postal strike so we must wait + mail from U.S. from: Sara + Pauline to: Eleanor Hallock 2202 Chestnut Camp Hill PA 17011]]>2015-10-07T10:14:59+00:00
Title: Mt. Edith Cavell
Creator: Altitude Publishing Ltd.
Description: Mt. Edith Cavell was named for the heroic nurse who was shot during World War I. its former name during the days of the fur trade was La Montagne de la Grande Traverse. It was a much used landmark as its elevation 11,033 ft. (3363 m.) make it one of the highest peaks near Jasper.
Canadian Rockies! Our last all [train] town. Scenery + colored leaves Fantastic. Canada has postal strike so we must wait + mail from U.S. from: Sara + Pauline to: Eleanor Hallock 2202 Chestnut Camp Hill PA 17011
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The marble head was carved by Edmond R. Amateis from Greek marble that had been imported to Rome in the first century. Aesred was given to Cabell in 1927 and remained at the Cabell home on Monument Avenue until the 1970s when it was given to James Branch Cabell Library. Mrs. Cabell reported to the library the Mr. Cabell was very fond of this piece.]]>2016-02-26T16:21:08+00:00
Title: Aesred
Creator: Amateis, Edmond R., sculptor
Description: Marble statue of Aesred, the ever-transforming female from James Branch Cabell's mythical land of Poictesme. Originally belonging to James Branch Cabell, this piece is now in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library.
The marble head was carved by Edmond R. Amateis from Greek marble that had been imported to Rome in the first century. Aesred was given to Cabell in 1927 and remained at the Cabell home on Monument Avenue until the 1970s when it was given to James Branch Cabell Library. Mrs. Cabell reported to the library the Mr. Cabell was very fond of this piece.
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Public health pamphlet arguing that prostitution spreads venereal disease and cannot be "segregated, licensed, and made sanitary."]]>2020-10-12T19:35:05+00:00
Title: The Case Against the Red Light
Creator: American Social Hygiene Association, New York City
Publisher: United States Public Health Service cooperating with the State Board of Health, Richmond, Virginia
Description: Venereal disease bulletin, no. 54.
Public health pamphlet arguing that prostitution spreads venereal disease and cannot be "segregated, licensed, and made sanitary."
]]>https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/82551 Beneath the illustration is the caption, "What the Book Says" and three passages from the Bible. An adress for ordering additional handbills is given at the bottom of the page. ]]>2017-02-10T13:30:52+00:00
Description: Handbill showing a bottle of alcohol. The bottle's label depicts a boy in short pants with a snake coiled around his body, The label reads "Fluid Extract of Hell. GUARANTEED TO KILL BOYS." Written on the bottle itself are statistics attributed to the effects of alcohol. The bottle sits on a platform labelled "Public Sentiment."
Beneath the illustration is the caption, "What the Book Says" and three passages from the Bible. An adress for ordering additional handbills is given at the bottom of the page.