Patrick Leary

@patrickleary.bsky.social

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Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS

Partial cover of the 1969 Firesign Theatre comedy album, How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, featuring photos of Groucho Marx and John Lennon and the words "All Hail Marx Lennon"
Classics Illustrated Jane Eyre shows madwoman Bertha Mason Rochester, violently restrained as she attempts to disrupt a marriage ceremony.
Organizer Carter Cleland addresses the crowd at Wilmette’s No Kings rally.
Punch caricature of George Augustus Sala, 27 August 1881 p. 84
Donna Reed in “It’s a Wonderful Life”
Bradley Whitford and Allison Janney in a scene from The West Wing
W.P. Frith's 1883 painting, "A Private View of the Royal Academy 1881". The portion at right, with Oscar Wilde surrounded by admirers, is frequently reproduced.
Census listing
"In the Soil Is Our Wealth" 1938
Portia Kellogg Gage (1813-1903)
This is Iga, our Golden Retriever puppy.
Jane Carlyle tells her mother that Thomas feels he has made "a horrible pluister" of his final lecture. 1839.
Commodore VIC-20