Week Eleven Auxiliar Post: Keeping Things Interesting with a few Photographs

I decided it was time to jazz things up again with some collection photographs.  Below are a few of my favorites thus far.

One of several fantastic pulp mystery magazines from the 1890s--the oldest items in the collection, which precede all others by approximately 50 years.  This particular example, the Young Sleuth Library, is dated 1894.

Another pulp magazine: Old Cap. Collier Library, dated 1890.  I just love the graphic design style on these!

It probably does not come as a huge surprise, but these pulp magazines are extremely brittle and delicate.  Here you can see the corner of one starting to crumble. (Note the unintentional juxtaposition of the crumbling pages and the character's melancholy face at left.. ha!)

Several photographs from the collection.  Most photographic materials, these included, document Edgar Award Dinners throughout the Mystery Writers of America's history.  The Edgar Awards are an annual event for Mystery Writers of America members akin to the mystery novelist's Oscars.  More details to come in next week's post.