Christine Jacobson

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Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University newsletter on cultural heritage x fashion: luxelibris.substack.com writing, projects, frivolity, etc: linktr.ee/cejacobson

Three people stand around a case containing the Gutenberg Bible in a library room, including Geoffrey Hinton (white, older male with short white hair) standing in a suit and tie.
letterhead that says "Thanks for Typing" loaded into a pink olympia typewriter
ad for the Oliver Typewriter. Copy reads "A DISTINCT TYPE. The OLIVER has certain superior features and unique improvements exclusively its own." Accompanying an image of a piece of type with the nicks on the left, "OLIVER" down the side and in place of a letter face at the top sits an Oliver typewriter.
slide deck that reads, "Thanks for Typing Surfacing Women's Type Labor in the Archives" on the left and on the right a lithograph poster of a woman in a golden edwardian dress sits working at a typewriter on a table with books and a vase of flowers
A woman in a pinstripe jacket and skirt and Panama hat holds a large pink balloon under a white canopy
black and white photograph of a woman (white, dark hair with bangs pulled back into a bun in a long dark dress and dark shoes) stands with her hands on her hips behind a desk with a corona typewriter and next to a beautiful hutch holding displaying fine china, a silver samova, and a vase of flowers
a small peony bush with a single red bloom in the center
Advertisement for Remington Typewriter “The Four Rs! The four Ra mean the same—plus an education”
flyer for event that reads "Houghton Library and the Harvard English Department present SURFACING CRAFT IN THE ARCHIVE | Deidre Lynch, Mande Zecca, Amy Elkins, and Jen Bervin | Thursday May 1, 5:30-7:30PM Edison and Newman Room Houghton Library Harvard Library
a stroller stands in the middle of a gravel path behind an expanse of patchy grass
Gravestone of William and Alice James in a family plot on a sunny day
A baby sits in a Bjorn rocker with a copy of the home-maker resting in her lap
an infant in a pea green onesie holds Lyle Lyle Crocodile on her lap. The book is the size of the baby.
cover of Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Image of the cover of the Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
black and white photograph of Vladimir Lenin in a town square in Moscow giving a speech to hundreds of people
A group of eight women with small babies sit around three metal tables in a light-filled courtyard
a cup full of milk and a saucer holds two cookies
woodcut of baby that strongly resembles full grown man in what appears to be a brussels sprout but is likely meant to evoke the womb
Left post from John Philips says “In awe of how my wife will arrive in a new city and immediately seek out local ointments, textiles, a bolt of fine cloth etc. It's like travelling with a merchant from 16th century Antwerp” right post says, “calenderheads, peep february 2026. you don’t see em laid out like this often anymore. something to look forward to” above a screenshot of the month of February which begins on Sunday, the 1st and ends on Saturday, the 28th creating a perfect grid of four symmetrical weeks
copy of novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy translated by Rosalind Bartlett rests on a rust colored pillow
left: woman in black and white print set boarding the subway in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. right: back of a woman in a black hijab and blue and pink printed floral set waits for the subway in Tashkent
Christine (in a purple dress and stripes with her red hair piled high accented by a fake white streak) presides over a Vandercook printing press
an arm holds out a bouquet of white red and yellow dahlias in a big jar
Large magazine open to an article on astrophotography
hand holds a jar of dark red and red and yellow dahlias in a garden strewn with autumn leaves
a young theodore roosevelt in recreation suit and mutton chops sits crossed-legged on grass surounded by eight young people dressed in similar turn of the century leisurewear. we see Roosevelt only in profile as his head is turned toward Alice Lee to his right, dressed in a white linen dress and white cap holding a tennis racket. She stares directly at the camera
people stand in a line outside a brick and green book shop, a sign over the door reads “PORTER SQUARE BOOKS”
I am going to create an environment that is so toxic Meme but it says, "I am going to create a snack board that is so decadent"
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind - As if my Brain had split - I tried to match it - Seam by Seam - But could not make them fit - The thought behind, I strove to join Unto the thought before - But Sequence ravelled out of reach - Sound - Like Balls - opon a Floor -
jar holds red and white dahlias, large flowers that have many compact petals
two women at the back of a bookshelf-lined shop with microphones speaking in front of a large audience
library catalog record for the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Jar of cherry tomatoes, white Pom Pom dahlias, and Pooh Bear (red and yellow) dahlias
close-up of a white dewy rose
NEW YORK — A truly great fashion show compels you toward destruction. It makes you stare at yourself, your wardrobe — your life! — and dream of something else. You may feel embarrassment, even shame. You probably want to go home and throw out everything you own. Maybe you even notice that your posture or your walk is sloppy. Perhaps you realize that what you thought of as lovely and inspiring is actually mediocre. For most people, these are feelings to be avoided — emotions you spend decades building walls to evade. These people probably have what’s called good self-esteem. Maybe they say they take themselves too seriously to care about what they wear, or maybe they are simply well-adjusted enough to wear what pleases or flatters them. These are healthy people. Normal people. Sane people. Those people are not the audience for the Alaïa show that Pieter Mulier, the creative director of the label since 2021, staged at the Guggenheim Museum on Friday night.
Two tall Pooh Bear variety dahlias,m with red petals and yellow tips/centers
Boston Globe headline: "Hot start, cool finish: Summer 2024 goes down as one of the warmest, more humid in New England Boston felt its muggiest July on record, 12th warmest June through August."
black and white photo showing girls in their black and white school uniforms standing around school entrance many holding flowers
black and white photo of two young trainees (two girls in berets and button-up blouses) examine a radio set at the Communications Trade School, in Alma-Ata, capital of the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan
Molly and Christine at a table
glass jar containing pink zinnias, yellow brown eyed Susan’s, white and pink roses, lavender, and nasturtium leaves in a small garden
image of a striped grey couch in front of a faded blue and cream tapestry with a rose embroidered pillow on the couch
woman waxing her legs, "A Susan Seidelman Film"
one plump green beefsteak tomato on a stock
Christine lives up her broadside on a vandecook press
still from the film Ball of Fire (1941). Barbara Stanwyck (white, brunette) is in a sparkly nightclub outfit, reclining in a chair, her right leg extended and Billy Wilder (tall, white, blonde) is holding her foot as seven elderly encyclopedia writers look on in their pajamas.
Manual printed in black and red that reads “Woman’s Place is at the Typewriter”
Book called “Matchmaking in the Archive” sits on a glass tables with lunch foods
woman (white, blue eyes, dirty blonde hair) wearing a big sun hat, floral cabana shirt over a black tank dress, and holding a smoothie
colorful sketch of four women in polka dot and striped bathing suits