There’s so much great stuff over there. I’ve been picking things out of the air, to see if they’ve been digitized at archive.org - like William Blake, for instance, books with his drawings; and there are some, though they take forever to download.
And even though you can find much better reproductions of art on the web, and easier texts to read, there’s something kind of magical about seeing these old books in pdf, imagining who has handled and enjoyed them over scores of years, etc.
When I was a little kid, my favorite book was ‘Teenie Weenie Days’, by William Donahey; and they DO have one of the ‘Teenie’ books, reproduced beautifully (Warning: the PC-observant will just have to ignore the old-fashioned sterotypes, if they can’t resist judging the past by today’s standards):
https://ia800204.us.archive.org/28/items/teenieweenieneig00dona/teenieweenieneig00dona.pdf
-JT
Love the opening of wise neighbors.
We live in the pucker bush to avoid the BIG Folks
We want to be off the radar
old-fashioned sterotypes, if they can’t resist judging the past by today’s standards):
https://ia800204.us.archive.org/28/items/teenieweenieneig00dona/teenieweenieneig00dona.pdf
-JT>> great stuff temple here locally is digitizing all kinds of stuff. phone books before there were phones funny stuff. I think McElroys directory. i have located my house in the directory from abount 1860.