Even very old original cameras are not immune to being “fixed” with tape! Poor camera! Just say NO to putting tape on cultural heritage and artifacts and books!!
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Author: digitalcellulose
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This is by far the funniest thing I have seen in a museum, in a long long while. This museum really doesn’t want to scandalize their visitors with ancient dick.
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Someone “repaired” this book with a tape that strongly resembles a mummy’s wrappings. The book is titled “Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt”. What synergy! Also, if you do this, you’ll get cursed by a conservator, which is a LOT worse than a mummy’s curse.
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Sometimes you buy a book for its content, sometimes just for the cover, but once in a rare while you buy it for both these reasons.
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Beach glass appreciation post. My friend in Syracuse has a beautiful display of her beachglass collection in a sunny window.
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1970s in the streets, 1870s in the sheets.
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Yes, I am that kind of person who visits the local library while on vacation. This is the bike rack outside of Syracuse’s petite Petit library in the Wescott neighborhood.
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Preemptive taping
Soooooooo…a coworker just brought me a book she’d found that had been “fixed” with packing tape. Somebody put packing tape over the inner hinge of the book! This in itself isn’t that unique…EXCEPT that the hinge WASN’T. EVEN. BROKEN!! Somehow whoever did it thought putting tape on an unbroken hinge was going to do something good […]
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Sometimes you find the strangest out-of-context things in collections.
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uispeccoll: If you’re off to a fancy costume party during the late 19th century in France, then this copy of Histoire du costume au théâtre is perfect for you! Published in 1880 by G. Charpentier in Paris, this book gives the history of French theater costumes with the aid of splendid illustrations, both color and […]