Notices by John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us), page 4

@wynkenhimself Hiding in the basement is much nicer since we finished our basement renovation!

Hey kids, do you want to see something really scary? It's "Weird and Terrible Things in Mylar Sleeves"! #archives
https://conservethis.tumblr.com/post/732303555399237632/this-week-of-weird-and-terrible-things-in-mylar?

Conservators at the Library of Congress had to evict an unauthorized 8-legged tenant from an architectural model designed by Paul Rudolph. https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2023/10/itsy-bitsy-spider/

I'm always interested to see illustrations in early books that show people using books, and this is a particularly cool example, showing a sliding bookmark to note a specific line within a page. https://nrs.lib.harvard.edu/urn-3:hms.count:1171742?n=18

The bookseller notes one tipoff that this wasn't really printed by the Continental Congress in Boston as the imprint states is the reference to the leader of Colonial Army, General Waginston. https://www.williamreesecompany.com/private-details.php?record=WRCAM38337

Someday I will retire from this job and be forced to reckon with what by then will be a collection of 30 or 40 tote bags.

“You in the north appear to be in a great stew about our recent 🦪ities.” a Union soldier writes home. https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2023/10/of-note-charles-wellington-reeds-civil-war-emoji/

Putting on a really big show of really big books for a visiting conference of historians of 18th century art and architecture.

@jkottke @mwichary I have not seen this store before and now I need to be tied to the mast like Odysseus.

Ephemera from A-Z at Boston College’s Burns Library, Maybe a couple of the letters are a little fudged but it’s a great survey of the wide and unexpected kinds of materials you can find in special collections. https://johnjburnslibrary.wordpress.com/2023/10/02/an-alphabet-of-ephemera-a-sampling-from-burns-library-collections/

My collegiate-themed hotel included a pencil, shrink wrapped for my protection, but not so much as a scrap of paper in the room.

@kaia I was thinking more along the lines of picking at a scab, but that too, now that you mention it.

@kaia I find that a very unappetizing name for a place to get food.

Absolutely not.

The Quarterly Report of Metropolitan Fashions. Autumn, 1895, includes some bicycling attire you wouldn’t confuse with athlesiure. https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2023/09/late-19th-century-fall-fashions/

Teaching the first of five sections (thankfully I have help) of the big Intro to History of Science class, including a beautifully decorated 1491 herbal. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990057520210203941/catalog

They’re a bit pricey but the fancy French socks from Mes Chausettes Rouge are worth it almost for the unboxing experience alone. (Thanks again to style icon @jasonwdean for the recommendation.)

@platypus What if instead of replacing it with the right cover…

I don't *have* to read bookseller catalogs for a living, I *get* to read bookseller catalogs for a living.

Optometrist George Mayerle’s 1907 multicultural eye chart is a fabulous piece of graphic design in its own right. https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2023/08/03/mayerles-lithographed-international-test-chart-1907/