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“The Spirit,” June 2, 1940
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The Spirit was launched in 1940 as a special supplement for newspapers, designed to help them compete with the crime and superhero comic magazines, which were then wildly popular. It ran as a…

Contributor:

Will Eisner

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Date:

1940

Subjects:

Comics, Print, Education, Humor, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Newstrip comic with two rows of headings across the top, and two rows of three comic panels each with image and English text in bubbles, featuring man in suit speaking to another man in an office.
A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue
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A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue was the first Hebrew-language manual printed in North America. Its author Judah Monis, knowing that all undergraduates at Harvard University were required to learn…

Contributor:

Judah Monis

Places:

Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)

Date:

1735

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Education

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling
Printed page with English and two Hebrew sentences near top and bottom of page.
Multilingual Exemplar Leaf
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This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It…

Contributor:

Iehudah Machabeu

Places:

La Rochelle, France

Date:

1655

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Scribes, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, Lists & Catalogues, Visual & Material Culture
Decorative page of birds, flowers, and rectangular sections of different scripts.