PICTURE FILES


Monthly newsletter for Mail Mag, risograph, 5.5x8.5”, various papers
Organizational spreadsheet

Each month I write about one drawer from the SDPL’s Picture File, which contains 152 drawers of file folders of pictures cut out from magazines and books. An incomplete archive, the library stopped updating it over a decade ago. I use a random number generator to pick which drawer to write about each month.




October 2024
Drawer 61: Drawings - Goya to Ecology
PDF




September 2024
Special dispatch from the New York Public Library Picture Collection
Dance - Social - 1980s
PDF




August 2024
Drawer 63: England - London - Aerial Views to Etosha Park, Namibia
PDF




July 2024
Drawer 88: Living Rooms — 1980-1989 to Magazine Covers
PDF




June 2024
Drawer 66: Fire Engines to Flower Arrangements
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