Childhood Illustrated, Circa 1910

 

 

While working on one of a series of large collages that I plan to sell, I was digging through a box of large, flea market-bought items to edit and clip down into manageable individual pieces.  In doing so, I was reminded of this rather damaged, but still amazingly beautiful item that I snagged about four years ago:  A 1910s children's book that was used for both coloring and story-telling.  I'm very glad I rescued it from the pile on the ground beneath a folding table in that outdoor flea market in Saylorsburg, PA.

My First Vintage Book: Dick And Dot (1935)

One Happy Year With Dick And Dot.  Written by The Sisters Of Saint Joseph.

Illustrated by Marion and Doris Henderson.  Published by MacMillan New York in 1935. 

This was the very first book that gave me a clear understanding of the passage of time and the things that remain.  I was a first grader at Saint Joseph Hill Academy in Staten Island.  My classmates and I had been led to the small, low-ceilinged library in the basment of the Holy Infancy Building, also known as The Bungalow.  We were given a selection of books to take with us and this was the one I chose.  Though I'm not sure if we were told to return them or keep them, this one somehow ended up at home with me.  

It was with THIS book that a lifelong lover and collector of all things vintage was born.