EmilyMSutherland

My passion is book and paper conservation. I feed myself, my cat, my tortoise, and occasionally my husband by working as an Archives Tech. at NARA.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

@patricksrarebks If you're near DC, there's a place called Second Story Books in Rockville and they just got in a decent collection of historical medical books from what I can only guess was a medical professor who used to work nearby, maybe UMD or GW. There's maybe 300. Definitely worth a look.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

Still waiting to hear back about the Conservation Tech. Position. Next week I interview for a position as an Archives Specialist in Navy Ref. and Augmented Processing. Much higher GS scale and more research, less hand-skilled work. Oh, to be a single traveler in a yellow wood.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

The very last page has this lithograph, which I also can't quite get translated either. Something about looking back fondly on your youth.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

"Orbis Pictius" 3rd ed. of Gailer's "world in pictures": textbook w/ lithographs on nat. history, astronomy, agriculture, world cultures, tech., trades, and other subjects for an encyclopedic intro. to the world's knowledge, w/ descriptions in French, German, English, and Latin.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

It has a beautiful handwritten note at the front, which I cannot decipher, for the life of me. And at the back the most adorable bookplate.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

I'm positively sure (pun intended) this effected my interview performance yesterday. What horrible timing.

[Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn]

A hole he found, full low upon a board
There as the cat was wont in for to creep,
And through the hole he looked in full deep

- Chaucer's Miller's Tale

[Dirk Schoenaers @DirkSchoenaers]

"This content is locked by your administrator" https://t.co/f2HkxSf2SQ

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

Let's not forget to send our favorite academic, group, and institutional accounts some codes for the other place. That way they can join us as a happy family.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

Find me in the blue, emilymary. Etc

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

I'd like to join the bibliophiles in the blue place. Can anyone spare a code?

[Today's Document @TodaysDocument]

Happy Constitution Day!

Can’t make it to the National Archives Building in person? Check out the hi-res scans in our catalog: https://t.co/X0rlOrKFyv

[Allie Alvis (mostly on 🦋 now) @book_historia]

Behold: a book bound in a pair of 18th century recycled leather trousers 👖

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

@brownbowlerhat I would have paid $150 cash on the spot. He probably got much less than that after house fees. Sigh.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

I will forever be haunted by the memory of this Italian baroque painting that I watched, on a rainy day, come out of a covered pickup owned by a cliche Italian man. And subsequently had to watch drive away because he and the auction house owner I worked for didn't get along.

[EmilyMSutherland @EmilyMSutherla1]

Update: it sold for $150 on https://t.co/UZFGfiTgga and they didn't even mention in the discription that the entire back was covered in manuscript pages...

[RIONA @rionabuthello]

I painted what the world looks like without glasses