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!

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!

Drum roll please!

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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.

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.

​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. 

​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.

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.

I love having these two beautiful bookmarks of Native American women weaving baskets in my collection.  As often happens, these bookmarks spurred me on to research to find out more about them.

First the artist... Robert “Bob” Annesley is a Native American artist who was born in 1943.  Born to a Cherokee Indian father from the Cookson Hills in Oklahoma, and an Irish mother of a Texas ranching family, Robert Annesley became a poet, historian, sculptor, painter and printmaker focusing on subjects of his Native-American heritage.  He has said that he is "more Irish than Cherokee, and I'm proud of both, but for some reason I am drawn to my Indian-ness." 

You can read more here Choctaw Traditional Basketry

You can read more here Cherokee Basket Weaving

This delightful vintage bookmark is now in my collection.  

It ticks a few boxes for me:  
it has a favourite quote of mine on the front,
it has a small painting of a bird on it, and
it has a handwritten inscription on the back.

It looks to be an early commercial bookmark rather than a handmade one.

The handwritten inscription on the back of the bookmark is one of those cheery inscriptions often found in autograph books:

"Folks are many, friends are few.  Would there were some more like you."

Perhaps the inscriber gave the bookmark to their friend as a birthday gift, either it alone or perhaps inside a book also given as a gift.  Who knows really but I am enjoying thinking about it! 

4 Bookmarks.
​SOURCE: Found / Donation / Exchange

World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book, is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, on 23 April, celebrations take place all over the world to recognize the scope of books - a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures. On this occasion, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three major sectors of the book industry - publishers, booksellers and libraries, select the World Book Capital for a year to maintain, through its own initiatives, the impetus of the Day’s celebrations. 
23 April is a symbolic date in world literature. It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. This date was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books.

Thought I would celebrate World Book Day here in Mark My Place! by sharing this delightful set of seven bookmarks which were recently donated to me from a collector in the United States.  The bookmarks are from the 1970s-1980's and each one shows the name of the poet and the illustrator.  They appear to be reading promotion bookmarks but I have no other information about them.  Only one of the bookmarks has any information on the back, and that is a stamp for 'THE BOOKSTALL, 708 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA 94109, (415) 673-5446' 

SOURCE: Donation