JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I’ve been looking at antique images for thirty-five years and in that experience it is easier to recall things that I do not often see–the missing-bits absences seem to be easier to recall than the many categories of images that I do see regularly. And one of those “missing” categories that was excited tonight by a serendipitous find is “dreaming”, or the representation of a dream, as found in The American Agriculturalist for the Farm, Garden, and Household for December, 1869. It was an interesting appearance, being a good illustration wrapped around a product-placement ad, as the subject was a children’s block manufacturer, and that’s pretty much what the text was about. But the drawing was good and the imagination behind it was pretty nice, especially for 1869.
And here’s an ad for the blocks (from the April 1869 issue):
