2020 Journal_025
Item
- Title
- 2020 Journal_025
- Alternative Title
- 2020 Journal
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image features an open scrapbook with two pages. Each page has a photograph and handwritten notes. The left page displays a photo of a grand, ornately decorated library entrance with an arched window and columns, taken from below. Above the window, a passage reads about a "good book" and "magic of the printed word." The page is edged with torn tan paper and bordered by handwritten notes in light brown ink, discussing personal experiences and thoughts. The right page shows a photo of a lavish reading room with a beautifully crafted ceiling and several people, some posing or walking. The notes extend around the photo, continuing the narrative started on the left. A blue page tab slightly peeks out from behind the scrapbook.
- Dates Completed
- January 1, 2020 - January 30, 2020
- Keywords
- 2020; New decade; Chart; Road metaphor; Bricks; Mortar; Rest stops; Dangers; Human body; Mortality; Poignancy; Connections; Sadness; Grief; Aging; Australia fires; Horror of 2020; $81,000 grant; Trust for Public Land; Texas Trees Foundation; Jonathan McNulty; David McNulty; Murder; Wounds; Baby elephants; Dream; “You are unstoppable”; NYC trip; FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S WORK; Lisa Unger Baskin Collection; Grolier Club; NYC libraries; Book display; Collections; Researchers; Lisa Unger Baskin; Magical day; Well being; New York Public Library; J.D. Salinger exhibit; Made at NYPL exhibit; Wallace Shawn; Artifact display; Book binding; Women in France; Inexplicable well being; Wave not the water; Broadway; Central vein; Long leaf; Walking; Orthopedic surgeries; Morgan Library; Duane Michals; Word and Image; NYPL; Animal skin fortune; Met Breuer; Home is a Foreign Place; Jody Shields; Metropolitan Museum; Friday evening; Cafe Sabarsky; Free man in Paris; Recollection; Recognition of freedom; Responsibility; Central Park; Beacon Hotel; Room with a view; Magic; Best Small Garden award; Dallas
- Transcription
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Left Page: "Total fan girl!! I said ‘Wallace Shawn!’ He smiled. Then in the exhibit I was reading a letter from Wallace Shawn's father (William Shawn, New Yorker editor). IS THE RECESSION IN THE MASTER SPIRIT, UNEMPLOYED FOR A PURPOSE TO A LIFE BEYOND LIFE. A GOOD BOOK IS THE PRECIOUS LIFEBLOOD OF A MASTER…” [Some text obstructed]
Right Page: “to J.D. Salinger and the letter mentions his son Wallace. I turned to him and asked: Did you know that your father mentions you in this letter? He did not. MANY MANY ASIAN TOURISTS IN THE READING ROOM. Magic NYC.” - Rights
- To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
- Is Part Of
- 2020 Journal
- Relation
- Image Gallery