Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: marbling

"April Fool. Ha ha." A nineteenth-century calling card printed on marbled paper that has faded over time. Instead of a typical calling card with a name printed on it, some Victorian-era prankster handed out this card as an April Fools' Day joke. For another Victorian calling card printed on marbled paper, see Marian Reynolds .

A Victorian-era calling card decorated with a marbled pattern (see Wikipedia's article on paper marbling ). The tiny dark spots come from glitter that has lost its gleam.

Handwritten on the back of this handmade marbled paper valentine: "From Adeline to Nellie Kirk."

I picked up this battered copy of The New England Primer after noticing how it claimed to be An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading just above the woodcut illustration showing a man being burned at the stake as a crowd of children and adults uneasily watch the gruesome and unpleasant scene. " The New England Primer Improved, or An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading; To Which Is Added the Assembly's Shorter Catechism . Pittsburgh: United Presbyterian Board of Publication."