Here is the other SF print I found in a bookshop in downtown Champaign, IL. Again, this is from sometime between 1930 and 1970 — let’s split the difference and guess 1950s 1940s. Charmingly terrible coloring job (are those clouds or airborne toxic events?). Click through for hi-res. (Please be aware that I have updated [...]
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Description of a London printing office in 1834
The ceilings are black as printers’ ink with the candle-smoke of two or three generations, and the walls, save where they were polished to a greasy brown by the friction of the shoulder, were of the same color. The wind and the rain were patched out from the clattering casements and the rotting window-frames by [...]
