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open book

5/6/2023

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This large bookmark  (10cm x 19.5cm) is in the category of boring, in a design context, yet useful!  It arrived in a large packet of bookmarks I purchased on eBay last year and I put it away in my collection not paying much attention to it as it did not grab me!  Recently I came upon it again when I was sorting through my bookmarks and I thought to myself... What is this bookmark all about?

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Bookmark, c. 1954, front
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Bookmark, c. 1954, back
I sussed out from a closer look that it was a bookmark included in a book as a useful guide to the characters in the story.  As you were reading the book you had a continuous easy reference to its characters, as long as you used the bookmark that is! But what book is it? I could see it was Russian but which Russian book?

So, off down the online research rabbit hole I went!

First of all I keyed in 'book' and the place names in my search box without any luck.  Then I keyed in the first listed character 'Tatyana Petrovna Vlasenkova', and bingo.  Lots of Russian language sites and some English.  I found out the book is 'Open Book'.  I had seen the words 'Open Book' on the bookmark but did not at all twig that this was the name of the book!  I thought that this was just a cute instruction to open the book!


Open Book was written by Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin : "​In 1949, Kaverin published the first installment of his trilogy Otkrytaya Kniga ("Open Book"), the last installment of which appeared in 1954. It is the story, spanning 35 years, of a woman microbiologist ('Tatyana Petrovna Vlasenkova') who proposes a bold new theory. The theory is opposed by the entrenched obscurantists, but the biologist presses on, at great personal expense. During the time he was working on this novel, Kaverin had to fight off critics who complained that he focused too much on love and who pressured him to part with his "not fully valuable" heroes and start occupying himself with ones absolutely positive in all respects."

Open Book is considered to be one of the great classics of Soviet literature and has been translated into English by Brian Pearce, among others. The story was turned into a feature film in 1973 and later it was turned into a nine-part television mini-series.

I ended up learning a lot from researching this 'boring' yet useful bookmark!  One of the reasons I love collecting bookmarks.

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First published 1954
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Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin
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1955 edition, cover depicting the main character Tatyana Petrovna Vlasenkova
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walnut creek library

2/6/2023

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Bookmark, c. 1980s

The Walnut Creek Library in Contra Costa County, Walnut Creek, California, USA, opened on July 17, 2010, and this bookmark promotes the activities of its Friends group. As the bookmark looks way older than 2010, and came in a bulk lot of 1980s bookmarks I purchased on eBay, I am guessing the friends group formed prior to the actual creation of the library.

This is such a great use of one of the diagrams from The Gentlewoman's Guide by the  Friends of the Walnut Creek Library for their bookmark.

​The Friends of the Walnut Creek Library are still active.

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This large (9cm x 23cm) and quirky bookmark took me down a rabbit hole of research!

First of all, the fabulous illustration of a woman washing dishes while reading a book on a stand attatched to her person! The caption reads, "Don't let houseweork interfere with culture."  Indeed!

The bookmark tells us the illustration is from The Gentlewoman's Guide, copyrighted by Price/Stern/Sloan, LA, USA, in 1967. My research revealed that this is actually a humourous calendar, published in 1968, with the full title being ...The Gentlewoman's Guide, or how to succeed at home.  Boldly Illustrated.

The calendar features cheeky illustrations for each month of the year

At the time of writing this blog post, only one copy was available for sale anywhere online, on Etsy for $AU44.99.  

Here is the cover image and an image of one page from the calendar. (Click on images to enlarge):
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"Don't let your discussion group get out of hand."
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bookmark & bookplate COMBO

25/5/2023

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This delightful vintage promotional bookmark and bookplate combo came into my collection via a bulk lot I purchased from eBay.  I consider it a treasure!  I love bookmarks, bookplates, and black and white illustrations!

Bookmarks often serve more than one purpose and this is a great example of that — a bookmark and bookplate all in one!

I am so glad that the original owner did not cut-off the bookplate!  I much prefer having it intact.

George W. Jacobs & Company were publishers as well as booksellers and stationers, and eventually just the latter two.  I have not been able to find out much about their history online but I did find a reference that indicated they moved from other premises to 1726 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, in 1925.  So, this bookmark was issued sometime after that. 

​And as the bookmark says, "Be happy, books will help."  Indeed!

By the way, the Ex Libris we see on this detachable bookplate and very often on bookplates in general, means "from the books (of)".


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Bookmark & Bookplate. c.after 1925
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blackwells

23/5/2023

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Bookmark — front — c. 1931
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Bookmark — back — c. 1931
A beautifully illustrated vintage bookmark from my collection.  Delightful line drawing and typography.

I was able to approximately date the book from the information on it of 'Site of the New Bodleian'.  The New Bodleian Library was agreed to in 1931.  In 1931 the decision was taken to build a new library, with space for 5 million books, library departments and reading rooms, on a site occupied by a row of old timber houses on the north side of Broad Street. The New Bodleian, as it was known then, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and went up in 1937–40. 

Oxford’s libraries are among the most celebrated in the world, not only for their incomparable collections of books and manuscripts but also for their buildings, some of which have remained in continuous use since the Middle Ages. Libraries in the Bodleian Libraries group include major research libraries; libraries attached to faculties, departments and other institutions of the University; and, of course, the principal University library – the Bodleian Library – which has been a library of legal deposit for 400 years.

You can read more about the Bodleian Libraries 👉🏼 HERE


Blackwell's opened its first bookshop in Oxford in 1846 and its first in Broad Street on 1 January 1879.  Since then the Oxford bookshop has grown; sideways, upwards and, most notably, underground.

You can read more about the history of Blackwell's 👉🏼 HERE, including seeing another vintage bookmark.

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B. H. Blackwell in 1925. Credit: P Leslie
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travel books

22/5/2023

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I have always loved travel books, fiction and non-fiction, especially vintage ones.  As a bookmark collector, I also adore bookmarks about travel books, especially vintage ones!  This bookmark in my collection I love for many reasons — stunning 1950's design, a person reading a book is featured in a lounge chair on a flying carpet, a great quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson (he was an avid and frequent traveller and travel writer), and oodles of vintage travel books listed on the back of the bookmark.  These books were all published by Arthur Barker Ltd, London in the years between 1955-1957, hence my guess at the date of the bookmark.

The full Stevenson quotation, which comes from his book of essays Virginibus Puerisque, 1881, is:

"Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."

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Bookmark - front; circa 1957
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Bookmark - back; circa 1957
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blue island press bookmarks & bookmarks cards

20/5/2023

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'Discovered these glorious bookmarks and bookmark cards on the internet today, published by Blue Island Press here in Australia.  You can view them all 👉🏼 HERE.

Blue Island Press supports The Indigenous Literacy Foundation through the sale of the bookmark cards. They donate 5% of the sales each year to the foundation.

These are two of my favourite bookmark cards.  Must go to one of the stockists and buy them for my bookmark collection.
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Bookmark Card — Melanie Hava, ‘Brolgas the Waterhole’, 2015

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Bookmark Card — Artwork by Yuluwirree (Debbie Scott) — 'Songlines in the Sky'
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snickelways

18/5/2023

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Such a lovely bookmark!  Great design, lovely illustrations, and informative about an interesting subject!  What's not to like!

The bookmark, on front and back, tells us what Snickelways are — and isn't that a cute and curious name! — and where to find them in York, England.  It also promotes the book "A Walk Around the Snickelways of York" by Mark. W. Jones, first published in 1983.  The book has since been republished many times and is now up to its 9th edition!  Goodreads says this about the book:

"An amusingly written walking guide to York's alleys, ginnels and snickets. Beautifully illustrated with pen and ink drawings and clear maps, this best-selling guidebook has sold almost 90,000 copies. Invaluable for anyone wishing to explore York's hidden secrets on foot."

It certainly would be lovely to meander in and around these Snickelways!  Meanwhile, we can enjoy the bookmark!


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Bookmark - front
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Book Cover - First Edition, 1983
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Temple & temple architecture, india

11/5/2023

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India Post has issued several themed bookmark sets featuring some of their stamp issues.  This is a great philatelic product, merging two collecting and collection interests — stamps and bookmarks.

Some time ago I received this wonderful set of 10 bookmarks on 'Temple & Temple Architecture, India' in an exchange with another bookmark collector.  The icing on the cake is that I am also very interested in the subject matter of temples and the country of India, having traveled there three times, including visiting many temples and other sacred sites whilst there.  So, I very much treasure this set being in my bookmark collection.

There is lots of information on the bookmarks themselves, so I will leave it to them to inform you.  

​NOTE: The back of each bookmark is blank.  All bookmarks are the same size, 8" x 2". Click or tap on each bookmark to enlarge it.
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Bookmark container - front

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Bookmark container - back

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Bookmark #2
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Bookmark #6
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Bookmark #3
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Bookmark #7
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Bookmark #10
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Bookmark #1

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Bookmark #4
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Bookmark #8
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Bookmark #9
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babe didrikson

7/5/2023

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Bookmark, issued 1991
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Bookmark, back

Babe was certainly an all round sportswoman!  Great to see her featured on this bookmark issued in the 'American Women A Celebration' series.  

This bookmark came into my collection as part of a bundle of bookmarks I purchased on eBay.  A gem I am happy to have
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rose lindsay

6/5/2023

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Bookmark, issued in 2001
This beautiful bookmark came to me in a recent donation of bookmarks from a dear friend.

The bookmark was issued to promote the book Rose Lindsay: A Model Life published by Odana Editions in 2001, which is a memoir written by Rose.

"Rose emerged from humble beginnings to become a woman of style and substance with enormous strength of character. She was model and wife of Norman Lindsay (one of Australia's most controversial and best known artists), master printmaker, business woman and mother of two. Rose Lindsay should rightfully be regarded as one of the outstanding female personalities of twentieth century Australia.

A Model Life is packed with wonderful stories from the past, richly illustrated and written with Rose's dry sense of humour and irrepressible joie de vivre.​
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Memoir, published in 2001
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bookstore bookmarks : new additions

4/5/2023

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Delighted to receive these ten bookstore bookmarks from my bookmark friend Alice Lowe from San Diego, CA, USA. Thanks so much Alison!

As my blog and website followers know by now I'm sure, bookstore bookmarks are my favourite collecting category, so these are all very welcome additions indeed!  

City Lights Bookstore (San Francisco) and Powell's Books (Portland, Oregon) are special treasures as I got to visit and buy books from both bookstores when I was in the US several years ago.  I had wanted to visit both these stores for a very long time and it was a delight to get to do that.

Alice Lowe is "a freelance writer, avid reader and Virginia Woolfophile in San Diego, California."  Her blog 👉🏼  Alice Lowe — still writing is great!  By the way, Alice tells me she is presently doing a piece about bookmarks.  Looking forward to reading that Alice.
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harriet tubman : black history speaks

4/5/2023

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Bookmark issued 1989
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Postage Stamp issued on February 1, 1978.
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Postage Stamp issued on June 29, 1995.

Today I honour and celebrate the life and service of Harriet Tubman (c.1821-1913) a woman who has long been a heroine of mine.

The two postage stamps have been in my philatelic collection for decades, part of my vast collection of stamps depicting women and women's lives.  Harriet Tubman was the first African American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp. The 13-cent stamp was the first in the Black Heritage series, initiated in 1978.  

More recently, I purchased the Black History Speaks bookmark and is indeed a treasured bookmark in my collection.  Black History Speaks is an element of Black History Month, an annual observance originating in the United States , where it is also known as African-American History Month. It has received official recognition from governments in the United States and Canada and more recently has been observed in Ireland  and the United Kingdom. It began as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora.

Harriet Tubman, known as the “Moses of her people”, worked tirelessly to help others create a new life. Born a slave, she escaped to freedom in 1849. Harriet soon returned south to assist her family to freedom, thereby beginning a career as a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad. Known as “the Moses of her people,” she helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom to Canada through the network of routes and safe houses. During the Civil War she assisted the Union Army as a spy, scout and nurse. Her good works continued throughout her life, including joining the cause for Women's Suffrage. In her eighties Harriet contributed money to found a home to care for aging African Americans.  

​A photo of Harriet Tubman is shown on the far right of the image below.


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bloomsbury books : virginia woolf

1/5/2023

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Bookmark: date unknown. Source: purchased
Bloomsbury Books is an independent bookstore on Main Street in downtown Ashland, Oregon, home of the world-famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Founded in 1980, they specialise in contemporary fiction and children’s books, and also carry a wide variety of nonfiction and local authors, and, of course, they have a large Shakespeare and theatre section.

The bookstore is named after the Bloomsbury Group, 
an informal group of writers, intellectuals and artists associated with the Bloomsbury district of London during the first half of the 20th century. Among its better known members were Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes, whose work has profoundly influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics to this day. 

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. She was a major figure in London literary circles and at the center of the Bloomsbury Group.  She was a major lyrical novelist as well as one of the most innovative linguists of her time. Her greatest literary gift was to take the banal and elevate it into works of great poetic intensity, employing experimental techniques to get at the psychological and emotional core of her characters. Her most famous works include the novels 
Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and Between the Acts (1941), as well as the influential Feminist Essay A Room of One’s Own (1929). The latter work created a literal space for women creating within a largely a male-dominated tradition.

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I love the quote and image of Virginia Woolf on this bookmark. And the flecked paper.

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Bloomsbury Books, Ashland, Oregon, USA
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sacajawea

29/4/2023

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Bookmark - Front
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BOOKMARK SOURCE: Purchased
This a beautiful large diecut bookmark of Sacajawea, issued in 1978 to promote the BOOK (historical fiction) written about her by Anna Lee Waldo and published in May of that year. Historians and other academics have criticized—even scorned—what they consider the inadequacies and superficialities of Waldo's book, yet the novel remains the most popular written about Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea. Waldo was also accused of plagiarism of other works about Sacajawea and a revised edition of the book was subsequently released in May 1984. So, a book with much controversy surrounding it!  Nice bookmark though!
Sacajawea (also Sacagawea) (1788-1884) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacajawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American people and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions. The National American Woman Suffrage Association of the early 20th century adopted Sacajawea as a symbol of women's worth and independence, erecting several statues and plaques in her memory, and doing much to recount her accomplishments.  You can read more about Sacajawea 👉🏼 HERE


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First Edition of the book
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Detail of "Lewis & Clark at Three Forks", mural in lobby of Montana House of Representatives
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somerset house books

28/4/2023

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This bookmark ticks a lot of bookmark boxes for me!  
  • It's Australian... my home country and a country I love
  • Its in my favourite bookmark collecting genre... bookshop bookmarks 
  • It has a woman reading a book on it
  • It has wonderful illustrations, front and back
  • It has great quotes... I love quotes!

​What's not to love!
SOURCE: Donation
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Bookmark - front
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Bookmark - back
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Mark my place is now on facebook!

26/4/2023

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Drum roll please!

You can now keep up to date with the Mark My Place! website and blog on FaceBook. 

To like and follow....

Click below 👇🏼
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paperchain bookstore

25/4/2023

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A recent addition to my favourite bookmark collecting category — bookstore bookmarks.

The Paperchain Bookstore, an independent bookstore, is in Manuka in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and has been operating since 1982.

I have lived in the ACT twice and both times visited the Paperchain Bookstore many times and bought many books from there.  Alas, I never had one of their bookmarks until I received this one as part of a recent donation from a friend living in the ACT.  She is also a bookmark collector and when I was visiting her we went though her stash and she kindly gifted me many bookmarks!  Thanks friend!

I like the dedign of this bookmark and I adore the quote on the back from the Russian author and poet,  Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva.
SOURCE: Donation
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
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she voted

25/4/2023

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I was so delighted to receive this bookmark in an exchange with another collector.  I have a passion for the history of women's suffrage around the world and one of my other collecting hobbies is the collecting of stamps and other philatelic material in relation to women's suffrage and women's rights in general. 
 
This bookmark promotes the Minnesota Historical Society exhibition of 2020:
She Voted: Her Fight Our Right.
SOURCE: Exchange
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​Women began campaigning for suffrage—the right to vote—in the United States in the mid-1800s through marches, rallies, speeches, and appeals to legislatures and the Congress. They were dismissed, ridiculed, derided, and often abused for their efforts. The first capacity in which women were able to vote in Minnesota came in 1875, when a constitutional amendment allowed women to vote in school board elections. Minnesota was a key player in the national fight for women's suffrage. 
 
In 1881 a group of women founded the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA) in Hastings, Minnesota; its first president was Sarah Burger Stearns. The MWSA hosted the American Woman Suffrage Association's annual conference in October of 1885, which brought the MWSA and women's suffrage in Minnesota to the national stage. In 1893 the MWSA tried but failed to pass an amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. For the rest of the 19th century and into the 20th the MWSA would try to pass legislature concerning women's suffrage, but would eventually fail.
 
In 1914 Clara Hampson Ueland organized a parade of over 2,000 woman suffrage supporters in Minneapolis, which brought renewed attention to the cause in Minnesota. Ueland eventually became the president of the MWSA, and in 1919 when the 19th amendment to the constitution of the United States was brought before the Minnesota legislature, it passed. On August 18, 1919 it was ratified by the United States congress. 
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University of Minnesota’s Women’s Suffrage Club (MWSA), 1913.
​The MWSA was founded in 1881 to coordinate statewide and local efforts to obtain universal equal suffrage for women.  The bookmark shown above is a section of this hostoical photograph.

This bookmark is a great companion for another ‘Votes for Women’ bookmark I have in my collection and which I previously featured in my blog.  You can read that post HERE.
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vale john olsen

25/4/2023

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Bookmark. NGV. 1991.
SOURCE: Purchased

The great Australian artist John Olsen died recently.  I recalled I have a bookmark featuring John Olsen in my collection and have retrieved it to feature here in my blog as a tribute to him.

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John Olsen

John Henry Olsen AO OBE (21 January 1928 – 11 April 2023) was an Australian artist and winner of the 2005 Archibald Prize. Olsen's primary subject of work was landscape.

The painting on the bookmark is a piece of Olsen's Where the bee sucks, there suck I.  (1984-1986), which is exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, (NGV), Australia.
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Where the bee sucks, there suck I. John Olsen

I did not attend this exhibition in 1991-1992, but I did attend a later John Olsen exhibition in 2017, also hosted by the NGV in Melbourne. Where the bee sucks was one of the paintings exhibited.
The information attatched to the painting informed us that Olsen had borrowed the title from William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1610-1611)

Where the bee sucks, there suck I: 
In a cowslip’s bell I lie; 
There I couch when owls do cry. 
On the bat’s back I do fly 
After summer merrily.   
Merrily, merrily shall I live now 
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
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bookmark looking for bookmarks!

25/4/2023

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​In 2021-2022, across a few orders, I purchased several hundred 1980’s era vintage bookmarks from an eBay seller, and there were many gems among them, including this curious one.

It’s the first time I have come across a bookmark collector using a bookmark to promote his looking for bookmarks! Very nifty!
 
Thanks to the International Friends of Bookmarks, I found out that Joe Stephenson founded the The Bookmark Society (Britain) in 1991.  

In 2004, (when a newspaper article was written about Joe and his collecting, he had  been collecting bookmarks for about 15 years, and had between 30,000 and 40,000 in 200 albums at his home in Victoria Road, Horwich, England.  

​Happy bookmark collecting Joe!

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