Bookplateof Oliver Wendell Holmes – Historic Reproduction
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Step back in time with Bookplateof Oliver Wendell Holmes, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bookplateof Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A bookplate, the small printed label pasted inside a book's front cover to mark ownership, is the object here, and it belongs to Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Boston physician and writer. Holmes was a professor at Harvard Medical School and a popular author, known for essays such as those in *The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table*, so a personal plate like this one points to a man whose library was part of his working life. Collectors of the period often commissioned engraved plates with a coat of arms, a motto, or a scene of books and learning, and such labels now help historians trace how a private collection was built and later dispersed.
| Original scan | 3,799 × 5,644 px · prints to 13 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15508_BookplateofOliverWendellHolmes |
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