In 2016, “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” was an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The art book from the exhibition is available on Internet Archive. Browsing the pictures is a good way to get the gist of exhibition!
The book of the week is an exhibit catalog available on Internet Archive. It was published in 1930, and the Foreword says that all the artists except for one were alive at the time of the exhibit. The works were lent for six months and were shown in 5-6 cities – organized by the American Federation of Arts. This is Canadian art from before World War II and reflects the development of Canadian expression that began in 1910…in many cases going back to nature for inspiration.
This week’s eBook was published in 1921: Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories. The author was Edith Howes of New Zealand. The illustrations were created by Alicea Polson. It is available on Project Gutenberg. There are other books by Howes on Internet Archive; as I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for the author I decided to browse The Cradle Ship which was published in 1916 and became a minor landmark in sex education for children!
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in April – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. 16 of the books are a continuation of the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so this month includes 2004 to 2008; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in May.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,343 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from April’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the April 2026 eBotanical Prints!
Alpen-Flora für Touristen und Pflanzenfreunde * Hoffman, Julius; Friese, Hermann * sample image * 1904
Ocean flowers and their teachings * Howard, Mary Matilda * sample image * 1846
Algae and corallines of the bay & harbor of New York * Durant Charles Ferson * sample image * 1850
A popular history of British seaweeds : comprising their structure, fructification, specific characters, arrangement, and general distribution, with notices of some of the fresh-water algæ * Landsborough, David * sample image * 1857
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.33:no.2 (2004) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2004
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.33:no.3 (2004) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2004
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.33:no.4 (2004) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2004
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.34:no.1 (2005) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2005
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.34:no.2 (2005) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2005
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.34:no.3 (2005) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2005
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.34:no.4 (2005) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2005
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.35:no.1 (2006) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2006
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.35:no.2 (2006) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2006
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.35:no.3 (2006) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2006
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.35:no.4 (2006) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2006
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.36:no.1 (2007) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2007
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.36:no.2 (2007) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2007
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.36:no.3 (2007) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2007
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.36:no.4 (2007) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2007
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.1 (2008) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1947, I noticed the aftereffects of World War II – helping veterans, technology transitioning to civilian use (DDT, lipstick, atomic energy), hunger/wreckage/suffering in Europe and Japan, Farmers and factory worker were better off than they were before the war.
(Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1947-01-06, Niblets Mexicorn advertisement
Life Magazine 1947-01-13, Paraplegic’s home made to order
Life Magazine 1947-01-20, Farm lottery for veterans
Life Magazine 1947-01-27, 44 seat airliner takes off with 13 passengers
Life Magazine 1947-02-03, New factory a model for civilian production
Life Magazine 1947-02-10, Mexican’s carrying loads to market
Life Magazine 1947-02-17, Ice fog at Ladd Field near Fairbanks
Life Magazine 1947-02-24, Bridge in Washington collapses in gasoline fire
Life Magazine 1947-03-03, Trying to save Whooping cranes
Life Magazine 1947-03-10, Cathedral of Caen and surrounding rubble
Life Magazine 1947-03-17, Cars stranded at crossroads by Canadian snowstorm
Life Magazine 1947-03-24, Beyond the arctic circle
Life Magazine 1947-03-31, Moon over Manhattan
Life Magazine 1947-04-07, Harvest art
Life Magazine 1947-04-14, Triple eruption in Iceland
Life Magazine 1947-04-21, Henry Ford dies
Life Magazine 1947-04-28, Texas City blows up and burns (town on Galveston Bay)
Life Magazine 1947-05-05, Normandie scrapped
Life Magazine 1947-05-12, Dorothy Shaver, President of Lord & Tayler
Life Magazine 1947-05-19, Diesel locomotives
Life Magazine 1947-05-26, Patched pants
Life Magazine 1947-06-02, Truman Capote at 22
Life Magazine 1947-06-09, Mount Athabasca
Life Magazine 1947-06-16, Santa Fe System Lines in the west
Life Magazine 1947-06-23, Adams House
Life Magazine 1947-06-30, The Maya
Life Magazine 1947-07-07, Nebraska’s soil and sons
Life Magazine 1947-07-14, Painter’s summer in New England
Life Magazine 1947-07-21, German worker making tires….gaunt from lack of food
Life Magazine 1947-07-28, Elizabet and Philip growing up
Life Magazine 1947-08-04, Penicillin (Rexall drugs advertisement)
Life Magazine 1947-08-11, Bikini atomic bomb test
Life Magazine 1947-08-18, Harvesting machine patterns in Washington wheat fields
Life Magazine 1947-08-25, German widow grows food in rubble of her house
Life Magazine 1947-09-01, Keloids of a Hiroshima survivor
Life Magazine 1947-09-08, Havasu Falls of the Grand Canyon
Life Magazine 1947-09-15, Hybrid corn
Life Magazine 1947-09-22, Thoreau’s Walden
Life Magazine 1947-09-29, Hurricane that impact Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana
Life Magazine 1947-10-06, Moscow celebrates 800th birthday
Life Magazine 1947-10-13, Bongo the Bear from Disney
Life Magazine 1947-10-20, Lipstick – a big US industry
Life Magazine 1947-10-27, DDT used to fight cholera outbreak in Cairo
Life Magazine 1947-11-03, Bar Harbor burns
Life Magazine 1947-11-10, In spite of inflation, more Americans are better off than in ’39 (particularly farmers and factory workers)
Life Magazine 1947-11-17, Hughes’ flying boat (Spruce Goose)
Life Magazine 1947-11-24, Chinese flood land to stop Communist advance
Life Magazine 1947-12-01, Princess Elizabeth and Philip wedding
Life Magazine 1947-12-08, Biggest telescope (at the time) atop Palomar Mountain
Life Magazine 1947-12-15, Gadgets – post war inventions
Life Magazine 1947-12-22, Christmas Art
Life Magazine 1947-12-29, Eistein and Oppenheimer
The ‘book of the week’ is a catalog from a 1937-1938 art exhibit of Swedish art. It is available on Internet Archive.
The preface of the volume provides some context: The exhibit was “of Swedish decorative art for the United States of America in connection with the 300 years’ celebration of the first settlement of Delaware.” It “spans an extensive period of at least 8,000 years, from the Bone Age through the course of the ages to our present century.” “What we would wish to show is firstly and lastly the artistic evidence of a very long national history, to serve as a salutation on the occasion of the 300 years’ jubilee of our forefathers’ settlement in Delaware. We hope that the great American public will apprehend this exhibition as it is intended, namely, in the light of an invitation to step over the bridge of art into a closer contact with the Swedish nation, its history and spiritual atmosphere.”
Family of Man: the Greatest Photographic Exhibition of All Time - 503 Pictures from 68 Countries - Created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art was published in 1955. The prologue is by Carl Sandburg. In the introduction Eward Steichen says they worked on the exhibit for almost 3 years and reviewed over 2 million photographs. The collection is interesting to look at now for the original reason the exhibit was created and from a historical perspective. What would be different if such an exhibit were produced today? The most obvious is that the photographs would be in color…but so much has changed in the world in the past 70 year. For example, I wonder if we have become less ‘ethnic’ less ‘religious’ – are we more likely to be obese – are some human faces so modified by treatment that they look artificial). The book is available on Internet Archive.
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in March – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. I continued working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed late 1999 to 2004 in March; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in April.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,323 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from March’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the March 2026 eBotanical Prints!
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.2 (1999) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.3 (1999) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.4 (1999) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.29:no.1 (2000) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2000
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.29:no.2 (2000) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2000
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.29:no.3 (2000) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2000
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.29:no.4 (2000) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2000
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.30:no.1 (2001) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2001
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.30:no.2 (2001) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2001
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.30:no.3 (2001) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2001
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.30:no.4 (2001) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2001
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.31:no.1 (2002) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2002
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.31:no.2 (2002) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2002
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.31:no.3 (2002) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2002
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.31:no.4 (2002) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2002
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.32:no.1 (2003) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2003
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.32:no.2 (2003) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2003
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.32:no.3 (2003) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2003
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.32:no.4 (2003) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2003
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.33:no.1 (2004) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2004
My ‘book of the week’ selection is a manuscript of 50 tempera, water- and bodycolor drawings. The original is held by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia and is available online at Internet Archive; the foundation is evidently working to digitize the collection accumulated by Rachel (“Bunny”) Lambert Mellon in the Oak Spring Garden Library. This manuscript is not dated and the authors are unknown but it has Chinese circular red stamps on the first drawing and the back endpaper so is attributed generically to ‘Chinese School.’
Images of plants and wildlife (insects, birds) always appeals to me. I like the artistic techniques of the collection as well. Enjoy browsing the book online!
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in February – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. I continued working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed late 1994 to 1999 in February; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in March.
I couldn’t resist 2 books I happened upon from the early 1800s by Elizabeth Warton….no photographs in those vintage books!
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,303 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from February’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the February 2026 eBotanical Prints!
British Seaweeds * Warton, Elizabeth and Margaret * sample image * 1827
British Flowers * Warton, Elizabeth and Margaret * sample image * 1811
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.3 (1994) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1994
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.4 (1994) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1994
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.1 (1995) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.2 (1995) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.4 (1995) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.1 (1996) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.2 (1996) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.3 (1996) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.4 (1996) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.1 (1997) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.2 (1997) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.3 (1997) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.4 (1997) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.1 (1998) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.2 (1998) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.3 (1998) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.4 (1998) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.1 (1999) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999
Mid-Century Architecture was the subject of the Form Givers exhibit of 1959. The exhibit book is the week’s Book of the Week and is available from Internet Archive. The exhibit was organized and sponsored by Time Magazine for The American Federation of Arts. The Corcoran Gallery of Art was one of the museums to host the exhibit. I was a little surprised that there was no west coast museum (the furthest west was The Minneapolis Institute of Arts) on the list of museums even though there were examples of some west coast structures featured in the photographs.
The quote from Henry R. Luce on the title page (“…and we will succeed in creating the first modern, technological, humane, prosperous, and reverent civilization. This creative response to challenge will be most vividly expressed in and by architecture.”) reflects the optimism about the future in the late 1950s….a time just before I started school.
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in January – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. I started working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters in December; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed late 1980s and into the 1990s in January; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in February.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,283 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from January’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the January 2026 eBotanical Prints!
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.4 (1985) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1985
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.15:no.1 (1986) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1986
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.15:no.2 (1986) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1986
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.1 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.2 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.3 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.4 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.1 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.2 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.3 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.4 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.1 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.2 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.3 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.4 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.20:no.3 (1991) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1991
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.20:no.4 (1991) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1991
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.21:no.3 (1992) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1992
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.22:no.3 (1993) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1993
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.2 (1994) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1994
Sir William Jardine was a Scottish naturalist in the 1800s. He edited a series of natural history books; two of them (about hummingbirds) are the pick for this week’s eBooks. They were published in 1833 and 1836 respectively and are available from Internet Archive. I picked two images from each volume…many more are available in these volumes.
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1945, it seemed that the was pivotal: the atrocities in Europe were in the news more and trials were starting for German leader that had not killed themselves….the US succeeded in ending the war with Japan by using atomic bombs. The industry that supplied the war was being scrapped or turned to civilian uses. (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1945-01-01 - 5,000 tires wear out on the western front every 24 hours
Life Magazine 1945-01-08 - Evening of July 25 in Normandy (painting)
Life Magazine 1945-01-15 - Granite stones for Hitler’s victory monument
Life Magazine 1945-01-22 - Western Electric ad
Life Magazine 1945-01-29 - Vegetable of War in the Southwest
Life Magazine 1945-02-05 - Murder in the Snow (where Germans shot US prisoners
Life Magazine 1945-02-12 - Trench foot
Life Magazine 1945-02-19 - Dalai Lama
Life Magazine 1945-02-26 - Soldiers in Germany (winter)
Life Magazine 1945-03-05 - Iwo Jima
Life Magazine 1945-03-12 - Glass manufacturing
Life Magazine 1945-03-19 - Germans crumble in the west
Life Magazine 1945-03-26 - German girl in ruins of Cologne
Life Magazine 1945-04-02 - Coca Cola ad
Life Magazine 1945-04-09 - American paratrooper….east of the Rhine
Life Magazine 1945-04-16 - Ford ad
Life Magazine 1945-04-23 - Roosevelt's death
Life Magazine 1945-04-30 - Hitler's hideout
Life Magazine 1945-05-07 - Belsen
Life Magazine 1945-05-14 - Nazi suicides
Life Magazine 1945-05-21 - London goes wild on VE day
Life Magazine 1945-05-28 - Okinawa
Life Magazine 1945-06-04 - Battered face of Germany
Life Magazine 1945-06-11 - Middle East oil
Life Magazine 1945-06-18 - Americans battle for Okinawa
Life Magazine 1945-06-25 - Harry Truman's Missouri
Life Magazine 1945-07-02 - Hitler's eyrie
Life Magazine 1945-07-09 - Japanese surrenders are increasing
Life Magazine 1945-07-16 - Caricatures of correspondents
Life Magazine 1945-07-23 - Berlin
Life Magazine 1945-07-30 - Postwar Jeep
Life Magazine 1945-08-06 - Empire State Building fire
Life Magazine 1945-08-13 - General Motors: refrigerators and airplane propeller blades
Life Magazine 1945-08-20 - Atomic bomb
Life Magazine 1945-08-27 - Victorious China
Life Magazine 1945-09-03 - Planes scrapped
Life Magazine 1945-09-10 - Battered Tokyo
Life Magazine 1945-09-17 - Hiroshima
Life Magazine 1945-09-24 - Coca Cola ad
Life Magazine 1945-10-01 - International Harvester ad
Life Magazine 1945-10-08 - Masks worn in Hiroshima
Life Magazine 1945-10-15 - Nagasaki
Life Magazine 1945-10-22 - USS Battan in Panama Canal
Life Magazine 1945-10-29 - USS Enterprise I New York Harbor
Life Magazine 1945-11-05 - Solar eclipse
Life Magazine 1945-11-12 - Waterfront fire - Chicago
Life Magazine 1945-11-19 - British brides
Life Magazine 1945-11-26 - Graveyard of US Liberty ships
Life Magazine 1945-12-03 - Berlin children
Life Magazine 1945-12-10 - International Harvester ad
Life Magazine 1945-12-17 - Housing shortage
Life Magazine 1945-12-24 - Tom Wolf and Asheville NC
Life Magazine 1945-12-31 - Big snow in Buffalo
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in December – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. I started working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters in December; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed the first ones from the first half of the 1980s; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in January.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,263 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from December’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the December 2025 eBotanical Prints!
Hortus Lindenianus : recueil iconographique des plantes nouvelles introduites par l'établissement * Linden, Jean Jules * sample image * 1859
Indicateur de Maine et Loire V2 * Millet de La Turtaudière, Pierre-Aimé * sample image * 1864
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.1 (1981) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.2 (1981) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.3 (1981) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.4 (1981) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.1 (1982) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.2 (1982) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.3 (1982) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.1 (1983) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.2 (1983) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.3 (1983) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.4 (1983) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.1 (1984) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.2 (1984) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.3 (1984) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.4 (1984) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.1 (1985) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.2 (1985) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.3 (1985) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985
The book I am highlighting this week is the exhibit book from a 1976 exhibit of Louise Herreshoff paintings at Washington and Lee University and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. When the artist died in 1967, she had not painted since her aunt (her foster mother) had died in 1927; her paintings were discovered when movers came to move her extensive porcelain collection from her home to Washington and Lee University – as directed by her will! The book is available from Internet Archive.
"Weggeloopen!" was published in 1919 – a story about a mischievous boy named Paul, who frequently disobeys his parents and often gets into trouble. The illustrator was Cecil Aldin – a British artist and illustrator. The book contains many of his drawings which depict the time in the first decades of the 1900s. It is available from Project Gutenberg.
There are quite a few books illustrated by Cecil Aldin available on Internet Archive, but this is the only one not in English! Because of the publication date, I wondered if the illustrations for this book were done after his only son died in World War I in 1916.
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1944, I thought about how the US was focused on the war and, while the war seemed to be moving in favor of the Allies, it was brutal. Casualties were mounting and at the end of the year the battle was still raging on. (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1944-01-03 - US civilians buy their first jeep
Life Magazine 1944-01-10 - Bob Hope
Life Magazine 1944-01-17 - Rockets
Life Magazine 1944-01-24 - X-rays
Life Magazine 1944-01-31 - Yesterday’s battlefield
Life Magazine 1944-02-07 - USS Missouri
Life Magazine 1944-02-14 - Kansas raises fine families
Life Magazine 1944-02-21 - Evacuation hospital
Life Magazine 1944-02-28 - Pullman ad
Life Magazine 1944-03-06 - Belmont Radio ad
Life Magazine 1944-03-13 - Attu Island
Life Magazine 1944-03-13 - Tule Lake Hospital (Japanese Interment)
Life Magazine 1944-03-27 - Worst garden weeds
Life Magazine 1944-04-03 - Oil wells
Life Magazine 1944-04-10 - Dyslexia
Life Magazine 1944-04-17 - April snow in New York City
Life Magazine 1944-04-24 - Spring 1944
Life Magazine 1944-05-01 - Ruined Anzio
Life Magazine 1944-05-08 - Steamboat on the Mississippi
Life Magazine 1944-05-15 - Troop train
Life Magazine 1944-05-22 - In the Aleutians
Life Magazine 1944-05-29 - US submarine saves airmen
Life Magazine 1944-06-05 - Woman in California shipbuilding
Life Magazine 1944-06-12 - Rome falls
Life Magazine 1944-06-19 - Ships bring back wounded and dead
Life Magazine 1944-06-26 - Palmyra atoll
Life Magazine 1944-07-03 - Taps Normandy: June 1944
Life Magazine 1944-07-10 - B-29
Life Magazine 1944-07-17 - Penicillin
Life Magazine 1944-07-24 - War ravages Italy’s art
Life Magazine 1944-07-31 - Infantile paralysis (polio)
Life Magazine 1944-08-07 - Swedish glass
Life Magazine 1944-08-14 - Marshal Tito
Life Magazine 1944-08-21 - Truman of Missouri
Life Magazine 1944-08-28 - Invasion array
Life Magazine 1944-09-04 - Korea
Life Magazine 1944-09-11 - Dutch Elm Disease
Life Magazine 1944-09-18 - Brussels
Life Magazine 1944-09-25 - US production soars
Life Magazine 1944-10-02 - First battle of German begins
Life Magazine 1944-10-09 - Wartime England
Life Magazine 1944-10-16 - Fading Newport
Life Magazine 1944-10-23 - Colorado River
Life Magazine 1944-10-30 - Omaha Beach
Life Magazine 1944-11-06 - Kitchen preview
Life Magazine 1944-11-13 - Sea floods Holland
Life Magazine 1944-11-20 - Roosevelt wins a 3rd term
Life Magazine 1944-11-27 - Moscow
Life Magazine 1944-12-04 - Hitler
Life Magazine 1944-12-11 - List of US war causalities
Life Magazine 1944-12-18 - The battlefield of Germany
Life Magazine 1944-12-25 - Civil War breaks out in Greece
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1943, the ads that almost always have a linkage to the war stand out. Every issue had one or more articles about the war too. The magazine depicted a country pulling hard to support the military and the war effort.
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in October – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. The publication dates span from 1750 (Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini – the second on the list) to 2007 (Benjamin Smith Barton: naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America…the seventh on the list). There are two series:
Revue bretonne de botanique pure et appliquée from the early 1900s. The volumes were edited by Lucien Daniel, a professor of applied botany at the University of Rennes.
Bothalia, a publication of the National Herbarium at the University of South Africa in Pretoria from the 1920s and 1930s.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,223 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from October’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the October 2025 eBotanical Prints
Collection des fleurs et des fruits, peints d'après nature * Prevost, Jean Louis, The Younger * sample image * 1805
Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini * Ehret, Georg Dionysius; Haid, Johann Jacob; Trew, Christoph Jacob * sample image * 1750
Revue bretonne de botanique pure et appliquée no. 1-2 * Daniel, Lucien * sample image * 1906
Revue bretonne de botanique pure et appliquée no.5-6 * Daniel, Lucien * sample image * 1910
Revue bretonne de botanique pure et appliquée no.7-8 * Daniel, Lucien * sample image * 1912
Botanicum medicinale : an herbal of medicinal plants on the College of Physicians list * Sheldrake, Timothy et al * sample image * 1768
Benjamin Smith Barton :naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America * Crosby, Marshall R.; Duggan, Eileen P.; Ewan, Nesta; Hollowell, Victoria C. * sample image * 2007
Revisión de las especies de Paspalum para América del Sur austral * Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Morrone, Osvaldo * sample image * 2005
Botanical illustration * King, Ronald * sample image * 1978
An album of Chinese flora * Chinese School * sample image * 1800
Collection of fruit bearing plants executed by one or more Chinese artists for Dr. Thomas Ward * Chinese School * sample image * 1828
The culture of the Central American rubber tree: botanical investigations and experiments * Cook, Orator Fuller * sample image * 1903
The Chayote: a tropical fruit * Cook, Orator Fuller * sample image * 1901
Bothalia - V1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1924
Bothalia - V2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1928
Bothalia - V3 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1930
Bothalia - V3 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1937
Bothalia - V3 Part 3 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1938
Bothalia - V3 Part 4 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1939
Bothalia - V4 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1941
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