Stanford Brown

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History adjunct, former high school history teacher, antiquarian, book collector 🇺🇦🇺🇳

Postcard image of Smithsonian gallery dressed as the East Room of the White House with mannequins dressed as Jacqueline Kennedy, MamiecEisenhower,Bess Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lou Hoover, Grace Coolidge, and Florence Harding
Life magazine cover from the 1920s with cartoon of a flapper and an older man dancing the Charleston.
As the World Turns title card
May 13, 1944, issue of Liberty Magazine; the cover illustration is a painting of Uncle Sam as a baseball player, and he has just swung his bat, shattering a swastika and a rising sun from the Japanese war flag.
Portrait of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, painted by their brother Branwell. The picture marked by one vertical line down the middle and four horizontal lines of damage to the paint where the canvas was folded for many years before it was discovered in 1914.
Portrait of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra, in a gold frame
Book is A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The book is The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart. The cover is a block print of a rustic, one-room schoolhouse in a rural, mountain setting. It has a tagine "A mountain school-teacher tells his story."
The book The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949, by Robert F. Durden. The title is printed in white in a black box floating over a photo of collegiate Gothic buildings, the photo shaded blue.
Pictured is A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics. The cover shows four panels from different comic books: Superman and Lois Lane from 1938, a Little Lulu panel, a panel from Will Eisner's Spirit, and a Pogo panel.
The book shown is Tom Swift: The City in the Stars, of the early 1980s series. Tom Swift, a sturdy young man with blonde hair, stands in the foreground in a space suit, holding the helmet. Behind him is the image of a cylindrical space coony in orbit with the earth in the far background.
Book is Trixie Belden and the Secret Mansion, the 1970s edition. A profile image of Trixie, a girl with short, curly blonde hair is in the left foreground looking toward a scene of herself, a teenaged boy, and another girl standing before a Victorian mansion.
The Penguin History of Canada by Kenneth McNaught, paperback book cover has the Canadian flag against a blue sky
The book Colonel Effingham's Raid by Berry Fleming; dustjacket is blue with title in red; below the title in white is outline drawing of crossed sabres.
1948 cover of Action Comics issue 117 showing Superman swooping down a chimney out a fireplace to delight two young children, while Santa Claus looks on in the right foreground. The text notes the issue features "A Superman Christmas Adventure."
The Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure, 1960s/70s Grossett & Dunlap edition. Frank and Joe blue and red pullover sweaters warily peer from the shelter of a large tree look at a high tower of a mansion in the background; a beam of light like a searchlight comes from a high window of the tower.
Book cover of Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson--a woman sits at a writing desk in 1920s-style clothing and hairstyle.
Book is Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison, dustjacket shows an eagle weather vane against a blue background
Book is Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech, pictured here in a dustjacket with sketches of Civil War-era Washington
The Secrets of Hidden Creek by Wylly Folk St. John. Three children in a rowboat on a lake look toward a ruined castle on the shore, where one windows shows a light.
Book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Poster for Last Christmas, Henry Golding and Emilia Clark sit on a bench in a snowy setting
Cover of Comic Cavalcade from 1947 featuring Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash chasing a turkey
Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie by John Mack Faragher
Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics
James Thomas Flexner's Washington: The Indispensable Man, the Signet paperback with photos of Barry Bostwick and Patty Duke as George and Martha Washington from the 1980s miniseries
Miss Twiggley's Tree by Dorothea Warren Fox