eBotanical Prints – May 2026

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Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in May – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive.   19 of the books are a continuation of the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so this month includes 2008 to 2012; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in June.

My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,363 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.

Click on any sample image from May’s 20 books 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 May 2026 eBotanical Prints!

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.2 (2008)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.3 (2008)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.4 (2008)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.1 (2009)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.2 (2009)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.3 (2009)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.4 (2009)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.1 (2010)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.2 (2010)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.3 (2010)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.4 (2010)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010

COLLECTIO PLANTARUM QUAE IN DIVERSIS EUROPAE, ASIAE, AFRICAE, ET AMERICAE * Morandi, Giambattistia * sample image * 1737

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.1 (2011)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.2 (2011)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.3 (2011)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.4 (2011)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.1 (2012)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.2 (2012)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.3 (2012)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.4 (2012)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012

Photography from 1901

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The Corcoran Gallery of Art hosted an exhibit of photography from the local camera club in April 1901…and the exhibition book is my pick for Book of the Week. The book is available on Internet Archive.

The year caught my attention since one of my grandfathers was born in 1901; he would have been 3 months old when this exhibition happened!

My favorite of the sample images is the icy fountain…with the US Capitol in the background.  

 Tenth annual exhibition of the Capital Camera Club: April 22d to 30th, 1901

Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms

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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!

 Art Of the Hellenistic Kingdoms. From Pergamon to Rome

1930 Exhibit of Paintings by Canadian Artists

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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.

Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary Canadian Artists under the Auspices of the American Federation of Arts

Wonderwings eBook

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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!

Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

eBotanical Prints – April 2026

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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

Life Magazine in 1947

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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

Swedish Art Exhibit from 1830s

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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.”

Swedish Tercentenary Art Exhibit: Official Catalogue

Family of Man eBook

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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.

Family of Man

eBotanical Prints – March 2026

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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

Edna Groff Deihl Kitties and Puppies

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The eBooks for this week are by Edna Groff Deihl published in 1924 and available on Project Gutenberg. She wrote books for children in the early decades of the 20th Century. She evidently produced the books based on stories she told her children. There is a picture of her with her 4 children in 1916 when she spoke to the Story Telling Club in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Enjoy!

My Twin Kitties

Album of flowers and birds

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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!

 Album of flowers and birds

Illustrations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

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The four eBooks this week are all Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Wonderland; the illustrators are different. They are all available from Project Gutenberg. I’ve chosen 2 illustrations from each book as samples – look at the whole book by clicking the illustrator’s name.

The first one is from 1869 and the illustrator is John Tenniel. According to the Wikipedia entry for this illustrator, his black and white drawings are the definitive depiction of the characters….and the illustrations did look familiar to me!

There are two from 1916 – illustrated by Gordon Robinson and Arthur Rackham. Robinson is the least well known of the illustrators while Rackham is very well-known.

The most recent is from 1921with illustrations done by Charles Folkard; the book is Lewis Carroll words as songs (music by Lucy E. Broadwood).

eBotanical Prints – February 2026

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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

Life Magazine in 1946

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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 1946, I noticed a lot about veterans returning, application of technology from the war applied to civilian purposes, and tragedies of famine in places that World War II ravaged. There were hotel fires and flash floods…slums in cities – photography depicting the peace time news.

 (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)

 Life Magazine 1946-01-07 - Veterans at College

Life Magazine 1946-01-14 - La Guardia waves farewell to New York’s City Hall

Life Magazine 1946-01-21 - Polio

Life Magazine 1946-01-28 - First family portrait (the Trumans)

Life Magazine 1946-02-04 - Marion Anderson records

Life Magazine 1946-02-11 - Coca Cola and returning veterans

Life Magazine 1946-02-18 - Candy is Dandy – Keep it Handy (Valentines)

Life Magazine 1946-02-25 - Pearl Harbor Committee Report

 Life Magazine 1946-03-04 - Modern kitchen

Life Magazine 1946-03-11 - Ritz crackers

Life Magazine 1946-03-18 - Eiffel tower

Life Magazine 1946-03-25 - Industrial destruction left my Russians in Manchuria

Life Magazine 1946-04-01 - Fuller House

Life Magazine 1946-04-08 - Slums of New York

Life Magazine 1946-04-15 - Hyde Park opened to public

Life Magazine 1946-04-22 - Planes in Arizona dessert

Life Magazine 1946-04-29 - Packed with good taste (ad for gum)

 Life Magazine 1946-05-06 - Ice cream dixie (cups of ice cream)

Life Magazine 1946-05-13 - China famine

Life Magazine 1946-05-20 - Robin nest at the White House

Life Magazine 1946-05-27 - Test rockets in New Mexico

Life Magazine 1946-06-03 - Mr. and Mrs. Ford in 1898 Ford….the first Ford

Life Magazine 1946-06-10 - Flash floods on Susquehanna and Texas

Life Magazine 1946-06-17 - Chicago hotel fire kills 60 people

Life Magazine 1946-06-24 - Electricity (in kitchen) works for peanuts!

 Life Magazine 1946-07-01 - Atomic bomb test in the Marshalls

Life Magazine 1946-07-08 - US shows off flying wing

Life Magazine 1946-07-15 - Farm machines

Life Magazine 1946-07-22 - Empire State Building suicide

Life Magazine 1946-07-29 - US produces second biggest wheat crop in history

Life Magazine 1946-08-05 - New York at night

Life Magazine 1946-08-12 - British uncover hidden weapon in Jewish farm community

Life Magazine 1946-08-19 - Yellowstone

Life Magazine 1946-08-26 - France rebuilds her railroads

 Life Magazine 1946-09-02 - Glaciers in Alaska

Life Magazine 1946-09-09 - Archaeology in Arizona 

Life Magazine 1946-09-16 - Model airplanes

Life Magazine 1946-09-23 - Coca Cola after school

Life Magazine 1946-09-30 - Graphic depiction of LA traffic

Life Magazine 1946-10-07 - Crowded schools

Life Magazine 1946-10-14 - Nurnberg trial ends

Life Magazine 1946-10-21 - Houston

Life Magazine 1946-10-28 - Shell Agricultural Laboratory

 Life Magazine 1946-11-04 - Stranded whale (Long Island)

Life Magazine 1946-11-11 - The road back to Berlin

Life Magazine 1946-11-18 - Land of Yemen

Life Magazine 1946-11-25 - Synthetic rubber plant

Life Magazine 1946-12-02 - Margaret Wise Brown

Life Magazine 1946-12-09 - Nazi brains help US

Life Magazine 1946-12-16 - Worst hotel fire in US (Atlanta GA)

Life Magazine 1946-12-23 - Christmas Rush

Life Magazine 1946-12-30 - Europe’s children

More Stories of the Three Little Pigs

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Project Gutenberg has More Stories of the Three Little Pigs published in 1921 (a decade before my mother and father were born) and part of the Instructor Literature Series from F.A. Owen Publishing Company. It was written by Sarah Grames Clark and Illustrated by Bess Bruce Cleaveland. As I browsed the book I wondered if either of my parents saw it during their elementary school years.

 More Stories of the Three Pigs

Form Givers

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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.  

Form givers

eBotanical Prints – January 2026

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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

Jardine’s Hummingbirds

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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.

 The natural history of humming birds V1

The natural history of humming birds V2

Life Magazine in 1945

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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