Two Bits of History

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A hand made book

My wife and I like to walk through model homes too look at the design choices and solutions professional designers make for these big ticket items.

This weekend, on the desk of a model office was this large format, hand bound book.

A large, hand bound blank book filled with handmade paper

You can get the scale by looking at the standard desk blotter it's sitting on.

A blank book, it was filled with handmade paper. I shudder to think what the original cost of the paper was. And I really wonder about the binder and the path this book took to arrive in this place as a bit of fantasy narrative for prospective home buyers.

A large, hand bound blank book filled with handmade paper

A large, hand bound blank book filled with handmade paper

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Citizen publishing

Cover of the 1940 edition of The Negro Motorist's Green Book

The other item was an Oct 11, 2016 piece on The Negro Motorist's Green-Book. Essentially, this is the Forbes guide for African Americans to help with travel inside thier own country without being humiliated, threatened, beaten, or killed.

I always like to link the most foundational source, but here's the NBC article too.

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Last updated: 2016-10-17 | Published:

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