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in small forgotten things // notes from a book i studied for my class on the history of printing

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-View of the Ducal Palace-

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Gilded silver and rock crystal vessel, crafted in Nuremberg, Germany, circa 1580

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A room in Can Papiol house-museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia).

Since the year 1790 and throughout the 19th century, this was the home of one of the wealthiest families in the small city of Vilanova i la Geltrú: the Papiol family, who owned many vineyards around the city. The house has preserved its 19th century interiors, and nowadays it's a house-museum that allows visitors to see what a 19th century upper class family home was like.

The house includes a library with about 6,000 books written between the 16th and the 19th centuries, as well as a music room, a billiard room, a ballroom where the family hosted music parties and literary meetings, a dining room, the bedrooms, a small private chapel, the servants' rooms, areas for servants to do domestic work and for farmers to do their work, stables, and a little Romantic garden.

Photo by mirades_nostres on Instagram.

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Sagrestia 1

#stat rosa pristina nomine

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iconic outfits in shows and movies

— Elaine Benes (Seinfeld)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus explained that “She definitely dictated her own style. She was not somebody who dressed super-sexy. That wasn’t her vibe.”

(most of these screencaps were found from @dailyelainebenesoutfits 💓)

#get OUT!

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Photographer: Bryony Whistlecraft | mooredgeinthemist

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*examines your pdf folder* have you read them all?

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Illumination of the Cross in St. Peter's on Good Friday, 1787 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

WHEREVER ANGELS GO

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Hercules Florence, Italy

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Studying in the halls

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Hedgehog on box pendant Late Period–Ptolemaic Period

4th century –30 B.C., perhaps

the met

#oh my goodness #i adore him

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BnY1mqLnWkg/

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My boyfriend had some phd work in Florence, so I came to visit him and I am absolutely delighted about the €2 Caffè lattes here !!! Exactly what I need to get through my last psychology assignment ♡

#if you have to pay more than €2 for a coffee you’re doing it wrong

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Hi!! Sorry if this question is a little out of the way for you, considering what you study, but I'm an undergraduate history student planning to have a semester in Germany and I'm planning to use the trip to dip into european archives for my dissertation (nineteenth century universal expositions) but I've never visited any archives outside of my country, and I'm wondering if you have any recommendations or things one should know when visiting these archives (and also if you have any recs on specific archives you think I should visit, though I know we're pretty far apart in terms of period). My country for example usually has use of gloves and masks as the default, but I know some archives don't like that now. Thank you for your help!

That's great that you're starting to do archival research during your undergrad! Different archives and libraries all have different requirements, so I can't really say. They should all have it explained on their websites, though -- which is also the best place to start with inventories and all of that. Sorry not to be of more help than that, but archives are so very idiosyncratic!

#personal correspondence #archives