1912 Albastine Color Chart with Eight Pages of Samples feet and seeing the design and

and seeing the design and illustrations in this old copy reminds me of both their strangeness and their magic

who I'll take as an icon for academic freedom now

Crisp and soft and bright

) 32 pages of manually typed text cut out and taped down (with what I find quite beautiful much toned bits of tape everywhere)

This one I believe is late 19th century and made of cotton flour sack type fabric

1912 Albastine Color Chart with Eight Pages of Samples feet and seeing the design andThis is a neat one, both for the terrific array of colors and for the nature of Alabastine paint itself, a powdered tint that was mixed with water for use on interior surfaces. And, as one can tell from the samples in this booklet, some of which have bled a bit, this could be used as a sort of watercolor palette if desired wet the colors with a brush and you could do a little painting. Founded in New York by Melvin B. Church in 1879, Alabastine was