She Who Collects Watches

librarycompany:

The introduction to this book, titled Your Hidden Skeleton (1910), explains that this is “a novel autograph book which reveals the secret skeletons of your friends through their handwriting.” In the featured image, Louise S. Venning signed her name then folded the page to create her “hidden skeleton”.

This book and many others are on view now in our main gallery as part of our current exhibit, The Living Book : New Perspectives on Form and Function. thelivingbook.librarycompany.org

Your Hidden Skeleton, (Philadelphia,1910). Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky.