JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I’ve written a number of times on this blog on the now-unusual covers and titles and contents (sometimes all three combined) culled from a 90,000-item pamphlet collection. This afternoon I came across a small collection of U.S.A. patriotic (and otherwise) covers, published 1895-1945, most of which have a flag or other patriotic emblems on them. Some of the 125+ so works are simply patriotic works, some are flag-emblazoned works on economics, some are anti-Commie, some are isolationist, and some are, well, a little meshuga–what they all have in common is that they either have a flag or the (declarative!) words American/American on the cover. There’s more to this collection, but this will do for now–I think these would be very interesting, and attractive, displayed properly, and they’d have more than a design-related story to tell.
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