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Deidre Lynch
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
Website: deidrelynch.org
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I just succumbed to temptation and bought from an Etsy dealer in Montréal a set of 7 Language of Flowers-themed album cards. (I did not notice the spelling errors on them until just now). Manufactured by the German immigrant to the US, Louis Prang, likely in 1860s Boston. Tag yourself?
![7 tiny cards (each about 2.5'' high) representing constancy ("honeysuckel [sic]), childhood ("pimpenel" [sic]), fascination ("carnation"), modesty (violet), humility (lilies of the valley), joy (hawthorn), taste (fuchsia). Background is white , lettering is red; the cards are printed in multiple colors: Prang was a pioneer of chromolithography.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:3wbzkjwj6kfuykyeg5guxwjh/bafkreih5byr5gkimrydjsgrnzttaagessphctizlrjdtw57dnh5zfhdemu@jpeg)
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Deidre Lynch
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
Website: deidrelynch.org
1.7k followers1.4k following2.1k posts